Maggie Evans Dutch painter Marissa Oosterlee is famous for the photorealistic oil portraits that allow her to make individuals with spotless accuracy. She shows her capabilities by putting her topics in a challenging environment – sparkling water. In her collection Washing Away My Sorrows, she blends her metaphorical paint skills with her love of the sea and portrays ladies half-submerged in clear ponds.
” My latest water series, Washing Away My Sorrows, is about the then, now, and later,” Oosterlee describes to My Modern Met. “Life without water is not possible. Water symbolizes pureness, clearness, peace. It reminds us that we need to clear our thoughts every once in a while and that we must pursue a state of pureness.” The women in Oosterlee’s artworks are presented with their eyes shut or averting. Their bodies are passive in the water– just barely wandering over the surface area– as though they wish to “purify” themselves and their minds.
Oosterlee utilizes conventional oil paint methods to render her works and their magnificent features thoroughly. While a few of these ladies wear bare bikinis, others are also adorned with beautiful blossoms. “The women in the water are far away and at the same time very close,” Oosterlee carries on. “You wonder what they are thinking … are they actually still in this world with their mind?”
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