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Artist Marjolein Scott-van der Hek lives and produces her spectacular artwork here on the Island of Abaco in the Bahamas. Her paintings reflect the vibrant colours of a tropical paradise.
Marjolein was born on Borneo in Indonesia, of Dutch parents and grew up in Indonesia, East Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore, where she studied classical and oriental dance and also fine arts.
Marjolein’s medium of choice is watercolour on silk, using oriental and western techniques based on the Indonesian art of Batik. The richness and depth of her colours are a result of a scintillating palette of special European silk paints and dyes that are layered onto each painting.
Although her subjects and commissioned works vary, they all reflect the spectacular beauty of nature, her surroundings and graceful people. An inspiration for the playful figures in some of her work certainly comes from her years of teaching dance to island children.The beautiful frames complementing her paintings are custom made by her Australian husband, from solid recycled wood, originally salvaged from local island homes destroyed by hurricanes that frequent the island.
Her commissioned paintings can be found, internationally, in private and corporate collections in America, Europe, the Far East and Australia as well as the Bahamas.
