Sobhotke

Handsigned, numbered and dated. Comes from the collection of the municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands. Marijke Boomsma (29-04-1946, Zeist - 13-10-1992, The Hague) painted landscapes and figure pieces in a lyrical expressionist style, in which dream and reality overlap. Marijke Boomsma mostly found the subjects for her paintings during her travels abroad. In her sketchbooks, she recorded her encounters with other cultures, people and landscapes. These sketches formed the basis for the later, more elaborate paintings. A trip to Egypt in 1989 greatly influenced the development of her work. After confronting the mystical culture and the exotic Nile landscape, she fully developed her intense sense of colour and form. She combined her own imagery with enigmatic symbols and fragments of writing from ancient Egypt. These works show her involvement with the mysticism of ancient cultures, extending the thread into the present, so that the present becomes a summation of mysticism, lyricism and her own signature, in which one can mindlessly dream away.