Marijke van Welzen

Textiles are Marijke van Welzen’s passion and offer an unlimited range of expressive possibilities, from their tactile quality to their flexibility, variety of colors, and visual texture.Marijke van Welzen creates wearable art using techniques she has developed over the years.She isn’t afraid to experiment or challenge herself, producing unique garments that explore a theme or tell a story. She holds a degree in textile arts and English.She has been working at a college for 40 years. Marijke loves teaching the techniques she uses in her clothing.

EXHIBITION

Storytelling coats

SPONSOR

Town

Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines

Year

2023

Since the year 2000, Marijke has been making her wearable art. She loves making coats with a story to tell. Marijke van Welzen’s colourful coats and jackets are true eye-catchers. As a viewer you are wowed by the lavish decoration and the richness of details. Marijke likes to work around a theme. Starting points can be: fairy tales and stories, a country, flora and fauna, a certain piece of fabric or a colour. Her favourite technique is textile collage. She works intuitively. Starting with many tiny pieces of fabric, felt and yarn, and colourful machine threads she “paints” her designs. She likes to combine this with surface design techniques like stencilling, stamping and needle-felting. Her work constantly evolves as she finds new images in her imagination and develops the techniques to create them in cloth. Her coats and quilts travel to exhibitions all over the world.