Marianne Burger Studio
Collage Artist ☆ Paper Junkie ☆ Image Collector ☆ Picture Puzzler ☆ Element Seeker
about me...
from my heart...
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Marianne explored her creative abilities through many artistic forms from an early age. After graduating high school, she enrolled as a fashion design student where she graduated with honors.
Her design ambitions won her a national tender to design the clothing ensemble for employees and representatives of Namibia Wildlife Resorts.
After a detour working in the hospitality industry with her husband for over 13 years, she decided to go back to her creative roots and opened her Expressive Arts facilitation studio.
Influenced by her love for paper, nature and fashion, she works predominantly in mixed media and hand-cut (analogue) recycled magazine collage, creating whimsical postcard art as well as more reflective pieces.
She currently lives and works as a Montessori
Pre-school Teacher and Expressive Process Arts Facilitator in Swakopmund, Namibia.
I believe art has the ability to heal the wounds of the soul, when practiced intuitively, using art as a mirror, can we begin to center the body, focus the mind and open the heart to respond to the world around us with understanding and compassion.
My artistic philosophy is based on the belief we should not be limited by products and techniques, for it is within the lack of availability that we learn to think creatively.
There is so much beauty in the world, images do speak a 1000 words and we can manipulate them to speak much more!
My art is an escape, it is my refuge and my heart's resting place, I find solace in the pages of an old book and get child-like giddy at the site of images that can become...
Getting creative, making, cutting and pasting is my play, my therapy and my self care philosophy.
Included as a Collage Artist in:
“Making the Cut Vol1: A collection of the world’s best collage artists”
Released 2017
by Publisher Crooks Press (Australia)
Shared Collage Exhibit:
“Mash up your Thoughts”
October 2016, Berlin.
Lemo Art Gallery.
Featured as Process Artist on
www.expressiveartworkshops.com
Creative Portal and Newsletters for my work on the 90 Day Collage Therapy Challenge as an Emotional Healing though the Arts advocate.
Included as a Collage Artist in:
“Art doesn’t have to match your Sofa” Vol2: Collage International
Released 2020
Edited & Curated by Kelly Schaub
Published by: everydaypaper
(United States of America)
Included as a Collage Artist in:
“Collage in the House”
Released 2022
Edited & Curated by Kelly Schaub
Published by: everydaypaper
(United States of America)
Included as a Collage Artist in:
“Faces of Collage”
Released 2023
Edited & Curated by Kelly Schaub
Published by: everydaypaper
(United States of America)
Part of exhibition ST_ARTWALL by
Teelent in an attempt to create the largest art gallery in the world made of ST_ARTWORK
Shared Art Exhibit:
“LBT: Be Happy”
October 2020
"The sky is the limit"
September2021
"On the go"
September2022
"Heaven & Earth"
October 2023
Swakopmund, Namibia.
Curated by: Arts Association Swakopmund.
Shared Art Exhibit:
Artistic Postcards - International Mail Art Exhibit
Galeria Korekta, Warsaw, Poland.
Curated by: Anna Klos & Dariusz Mlacki
Shared Art Exhibit:
Ombo Gallery
November 2020, Windhoek, Namibia.
Curated by: Arts Association Swakopmund
Shared Art Exhibit:
"Let every scale count"
National Art Gallery
June 2022, Windhoek, Namibia.
Curated by: National Art Association
Online Collage Instructor
Collage-Lab: Spring Fling 2022 & 2023
