Maaike Schoorel (born 1973) is an artist based in
London
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.
Schoorel was born in
Santpoort Santpoort is a town in North Holland, Netherlands consisting of two parts, with a combined population of 10,610 in 2023:
* Santpoort-Noord, a village with a population of 7,270 in 2023
* Santpoort-Zuid, a village with a population of 3,385 in 2023
...
,
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. She makes paintings based on photographs, using traditional genres such as
landscape
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,
portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...
and
still-life
A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...
. She favours pale colours and minimal detail.
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Maaike Schoorel is represented in London by Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley (born 1953Sleeman, Elizabeth (ed.) ''The International Who's Who of Women'' (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 431. Entry on Paley available as snippet viehere/ref>) is the American owner of a contemporary art gallery in Be ...
.
References
External links
*Further information fro
Galerie Diana Stigter
*Images, texts and biography from th
*Ana Finel Honigman on Maaike Schoorel's exhibition at Maureen Paley fro
ArtNet.com
*Maaike Schoorel o
ArtFacts.com
1973 births
Living people
People from Velsen
Artists from North Holland
Dutch women artists
Dutch contemporary artists
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