Marjan Wouda
Marjan Wouda has her work spread far and wide, from New Zealand and Hong Kong to Europe, the Caribbean and America, bought or commissioned by private collectors and public institutions. She has exhibited in London, Amsterdam, The Hague, Germany, Dublin, the US and around the UK; and made sculptural responses to public spaces in London, Greater Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and green spaces in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Sir Kyffin Williams, RA, the defining 20th-century artist of Wales, describes the artist as “someone whose work is indeed true sculpture. It possesses an almost surreal twist that immediately makes it thought provoking. Some of her work has a tenderness that is most moving, an emotion that is usually lacking in modern sculpture.”
Born in 1960 on her family’s tenant dairy farm in the North of the Netherlands, Marjan Wouda came to England when she was nineteen, hungry for independence and experience. She attended Art College in London, completing her formal training in Manchester with an MA in Fine Art/Sculpture. Marjan currently lives in the Pennine Hills of Lancashire, occupying an old house with a studio in the outbuildings and chickens in the garden.
The landscape of Lancashire - and the folkloric stories that it inspired - is the source of much of her latest output, which includes the making of a book. She also started working in sheet metal, using computer animated design to translate small paper maquettes into large, scalable projects. Her aim is to return these large pieces to the places that inspired them in the beautiful landscape of Lancashire.
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