MVS, Tunis Doppel

Trip to Tunis

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Happy Hour

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A handtufted Rhapsody

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Happy Day

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Trip to Tunis

21. Februar 2025
MVS, Tunis Doppel

A set of two smaller paintings that helped me, to escape winter in my own little ways, travvelling on the wings of colour. As everything in the past months, they develloped in an intuitive manner, applying many layers of paint to evoke a sense of something hidden and partly veiled.

II’m one of these persons, who can’t help seeing things everywhere they look – like animals in clouds, faces on and old wall, etc. So, even if i intended to create an abstract work here, so much of something came in here, that my husband said. these remind him a lot of Tunis.

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MVS, Tunis 1, mixed media / canvas

I didn’t mind that at alll and kept this association in the title of this pair, since islamic art and architecture, especially from Maroc. has always inspired me a lot. But i do hope, that each viewer feels free to see their own things – or no things, as the vibrations of colour speak for themselves.

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Happy Hour

20. Februar 2025
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This is a whimsical painting that started on an experimental note – improvising with the coloirs like you would on a musical instrument. Never the less, it took a long time for me to find the „tune“, the right balance between chance and conscious choices that i liked. I always get stuck, when too much of the head comes into the painting process, when i try to controll too much. So i needed to step back from the painting times and times again until it was finished. My husband called it „HAPPY HOUR“ – and we had a drink of champagne on it!

Happy Hour painting MVS
MVS, Happy Hour. mixed media/canvas

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A handtufted Rhapsody

19. Februar 2025

Making carpet art is an adventure – and a lengthy process, that involves a lot of work. Many steps and many people. It gave me an understanding, of how important it is, to communicate clearly. To translate the original vision of the design in a way, that will not be misunderstood. When two people look at one thing, they may see and perceive it differently. And even more so, when these people have a different cultural background. It is stunning to see a carpet beong made, seeing skilled hamds tufting it, washing and drying it, cutting it and thus turning it from a 2-D image into a 3D object

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Fotos: mareenlines.com

“RHAPSODY” an ancient Greek word that means “songs stitched together” holds a spirit of collaboration, freeflow, contrasting moods, colours, and tonality. My friend Sharmeen Attarwala and i chose it as a title for one of our artistic carpet series that was derived from a set of abstract collages we worked on a while earlier.

An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation that felt like making music happened when we created the collages and transfered them into designs on the computer. In a dreamlike mode imagining the sunlight caressing warm stones, the peaceful architecture of quiet towns, light gleaming through windows, golden beiges changing into pink and pink into dusky blues, a trance in the poetic spaces of our minds.

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Foto: mareenöones.com

Once made into handtufted carpets by skilled craftsmen in India they looked even more stunning. We love the slight relief structure they have, the soft touch and the silky shine, that makes the colours come alive and change with the light.

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Happy Day

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Little things floating on a summer breeze – plant seeds, leaves, insects, bits of paper and some whimsical tunes and daydreams, all woven into an invisible net of sunlightsunny haze and gentle warmth. My way to tune into summer, when iT#s actually winter here – the magic of painting!

The many layers of paint that i used to achieve depth and transparency in the colour, makes the painting change with the light so it looks different thoughout the day.

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Happy_Day_Painting_MVS

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Golden Light

16. Februar 2025
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The Golden Light series was done last winter to spring – in that time, when the light here is mostly pale white and grey and you don’t see much of the sun. It was inspired by shadows, that the morning sun had painted on the canvases. It started out on a much lighter, almost translucent palette in a white light.

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MVS, Golden Light 2 und 3 aus 4, Mixed Media / cancas, 2024

But even though they looked quite poetic in the reduced, pale colour scheme, they did not evoke that feeling of happiness, that i craved at that time. They made me slightly shiver. Then, the Forsythia in the garden and in the landscape around me started bloomimg early and brought in a very bright, yellow sound that was heard all around. Hello, can you hear a colour? Yes, to me colours are like sounds ofteh.

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MVS, Golden Light Serie, Mixed Media / cancas, 2024

And before i knew it, the yellow swept into my paintings and the inner smile came back…

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Get into the FLOW

5. März 2024

Inspired by the compositions of beautiful marine plants and creatures, the unique Flow carpet collection captures the alluring mystery of the ocean in its bold vibrant compositions. Each rug is hand-tufted with an array of soft, durable wool and Tencel fibres that mimic the undulating patterns of the ocean’s surface and magnificent life hidden deep below.

Find more information on these artistic carpets here.

Foto: MVS

It is a fascinating process, to turn a design into a carpet. I was hugely inspired by the rich, natural colour palette of the wool and Tencel yarns. Yet at first it is hard to imagine, how the shades of these will turn out on a large scale. How the colours blend and mix when woven. And how the translation works. As we found out, it is a matter of trust and above all, a clear and effective communication between us, the artists and designers, and the craftsmen and-women.

When two people look at one image, they might still not see and perceive the same thing. And it took some lengthy and costly trial and error to find out, how we could bring our vision across.

Foto: MVS

Once the carpet is knotted or tufted, the work is not yet over. Each piece is washed and dried multiple times and cut and trimmed by hand, to achieve the delicate relief structure. that enhances the design and also the touch of the carpet.

MAREEN_Turquoise_Flowcarpet_in_the_making, Foto: Sharmeen Attarwala
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Turquoise FLOW carpet, www.mareenlines.com

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OPEN ART HOUSE

Das erste OPEN ART HOUSE seit Corona – mit unserem Gast, der Bildhauerin Elfie Clement aus Mainz und Original Holzschnitten und Lithographien vom HAP Grieshaber, Frans Masereel und anderen. Dazu präsentierten wir Masken und Skulpturen aus Afrika.

An zwei Tagen öffnete sich unsere Atelierwohnung zu einer Feier der Kontraste. Schwarz, weiß und das ganze Farbspekrtum dazwischen können nicht nur friedlich koexistieren, sondern ergänzen sich aufs Beste. Was wäre das Leben ohne Gegensätze?

Blick in die Ausstellung mit Bildern von Martina Voigt-Schmid, Holzschnitten von HAP Grieshaber und Artefakten aus Afrika, Foto: MVS
Traubenbilder von Martina Voigt-Schmid, Foto: MVS
Bilder von Martina Voigt-Schmid, Foto: MVS
Objekte von Elfie Clement, Foto: MVS
Objekte und Fotoarbeiten von Elfie Clement, Foto: MVS
Objekte und Fotoarbeiten von Elfie Clement, Foto: MVS

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Painting grapes

11. April 2023
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„Please send me some photos from your walks in the vineyards“, said my painter friend Sabina last fall, „I’d love to paint grapes!“. So I went up there and, although I live around the vineyards for many years now, I started seeing colours there I had never noticed before. My camera captured hues from dark, blackish blue and purple, to light pink, golden yellow, bright fresh green, crimson red and everything in between. I was spellbound and felt so inspired, that I started to paint grapes myself.

If you know me, you know, how much I like to use circles and dots in my paintings. So painting grapes felt quite natural for me. Yet grapes on paintings have a tendency to look either oldfashioned or kitschy somehow. And the difficult thing was, to develop a new take, while hanging on to the fascination of my first impressions.

Some of the finished paintings for revision in my studio. Foto: MVS

So the first little sketches in colour developed into a whole series, that kept me busy for a whole year of painting. And next to making and drinking wine, painting wineplants and grapes is one thing, that is capable of making people forget their sorrows and dwell in most delicate moments of happiness. Or, I should also hope, looking at paintings, that capture the abundance and the magic that comes from this astonishing plant, that produces so much from almost nothing.

Look at more paintings from this series here.

Chees to you!

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Under the Cocoa Tree

8. April 2023
MVS PINK CoCOA painting

Since last year, I have been inspired by the theme of cocoa fruits.

Cocoa trees look like a piece of art or like an ancient goddess, generous, and abundant. Their huge fruits, containing the cocoa beans, grow directly from the trunk, full of earthly power and sweetness of nature. Once i saw, how cocoa grows, I understood more of the magic of chocolate – why people want it so much, and why it fills us with satisfaction and happiness.

MVS BLU COCOA Fotocollage
MVS BLU COCOA Fotocollage

It is also fascinating, to see the colours of the cocoa fruits, ranging from yellow to green to pink, red, violett, purple and maroon. I have not seen light blue ones so far, but could not resist using the pastel shades in my paintings, as they evoke a sense of delicacy and lightness.

MVS PINK COCA, 100 x 140 cm, mixed media / canvas

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Stones & Water

3. März 2023
MVS, Stones & Water series

Turquoise and bright blues have always been happy colours for me. Looking at them, instantly gives me a feeling of freshness, like having a revitalising bath in the mediterranean sea on a sunny day. In these small paintings i combined bright ocean hues with mineral shapes and shades. Beautiful pebbles collected from the beach, minrals nd crystals have always inspired me and i like to place them aroung the house. In this case they were modelled and brought to the surface by bold movements of the brush.

MVS, Stones & Water, Acryl/Gousche/Canvas, Set of 4, each 40 x 40 cm
MVS, Stones & Water series, 1
MVS, Stones & Water series, 1, Acryllics/Gouache/Canvas, 40 x 40 cm
MVS, Stones & Water series, 2, Acryllics/Gouache
MVS, Stones & Water series, 2, Acryllics/Gouache

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