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Marit is a diverse artist combining many techniques and materials who loves to make art with a meaning. Using symbolism and  iconography of different cultures and religions.  She likes extremes like working with many vibrant colours vs working in black & white. She tends to work very small, searching the limits of her tools and eyes, big work is the other extreme but here she likes to hide small details. As a former Construction and Civil engineer, she likes constructions which we can see back in her "mystery boxes" with hidden places, tiny books popping up from drawers hidden in a carousel. After a free program Bachelor with Art History, Book-science, Neuroscience, Physical Anthropology, Languages among other directions, she now follows an MA Traditional Arts in London. She lives and works in two countries: Germany and the UK, fascinated and inspired by their nature and rich culture.
Her field of research is on how the Iconography has been influenced over the centuries from the Asian world over the Islamic to the West and back, secondly she is interested in pigments; their use and symbolism.

 

Marit has a strong feeling that everything is connected, we all are connected in life and death, living beings and dead material; which isn't truly dead. She never cared about details like age, gender or colour and always refused to be forced in whatever box, although society often tried calling her too black or too white, too young, too old, girls shouldn't: "I'm not my age, gender or colour and you are neither". We are all energy, part of the whole, made from the same matter the whole universe is made of. We all are part of that universe and as such we have the universe in us. Call it nature, God, Gods, the source; in the end it is all the same creating energy that is around us and in us.

 

Her studio is not just a place where art is made, we like people to feel at home here, feel welcome. A big part of time and money is invested to bring love to the world through positivity projects and offering help in many ways, like education for children, a day out, concessions or help with providing food for those who need it. We help refugees as well as locals or people living far away, for example through initiatives as KIVA. Sometimes something very sad happens like the drama with Grenfell in 2016, we sometimes respond to such things, most of the time anonymous. Not just humans are worth to invest in, other lifeforms, nature and culture are also important to us.