Aporia gallery

“Strength and boldness, both in line and colour, are the striking characteristics of Marijke Van Neygen's vigorously and elegantly brushed canvases and drawings. For her, colour and line are less intended to construct an image of reality than to ensure the reflection of her view of contemporary man: an inwardly moved, if not torn, being in whom contradictions prevail over harmonies and who expresses himself in fierce contrasts of both attitude and outlook. The German expressionists, including Schiele, would recognise in Marijke Van Neygen a kindred spirit whose violence in colour and turbulence in form in no way exclude irony and detachment. Her characteristic layering can also be found in her current work, in which charcoal drawing provides the final touch. She tries to represent this in as versatile a way as possible, both in fragmentary work and in the enlargement of details that find a place in her art both in their context and on their own. Her work vibrates and lives, among other things, because of this layering. Her basic motif remains, as with the German Expressionists, human beings with their emotions and their environment, with their colourful diversity in form and underlying unity and homogeneity in their being.”

Wim Toebosch, Art Antiques Auctions