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Brigid Marlin (born 16 January 1936,
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) is an American artist based in
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, UK. She studied in
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where, under the guidance of the Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, she learned the oil and egg tempera technique ( Mischtechnik) of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance painters
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. In 1961 she founded the ins-cape group, which subsequently became the Society for Art of Imagination. Marlin's paintings typically feature visionary and psychic subjects, often with scriptural themes akin to the
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. One of her best-known paintings 'The Rod' (shown right

won the 1974 ''Visions of the Future'' competition and was greatly admired by J. G. Ballard, J G Ballard, who later commissioned her to reproduce the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux's two 'lost' paintings 'The Rape' and 'The Mirror'. Her portrait of Ballard was acquired by the
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, London, in 1989, and she has also painted portraits of the
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. Marlin is the daughter of artist and children's author
Hilda van Stockum Hilda Gerarda van Stockum (9 February 1908 – 1 November 2006) was a Dutch-born children's writer and artist. She received a Newbery Honor. Biography She was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her father was an officer in the Dutch Royal ...
. She married in 1957, had three sons (the eldest of whom died in 1979) and divorced in 1980. These experiences are documented in her books ''From East to West: Awakening to a Spiritual Search'' and ''A Meaning for Danny''.


Books

* 1989 - ''From East to West: Awakening to a Spiritual Search'' (Brigid Marlin) (Fount) * 1991 - ''Paintings in the Mische Technique'' * 1999 - ''Visions of Venice'' (Christine Marlin, Brigid Marlin) (Byronic Books) * 2007 - ''Metamorphosis'' (being Art) * 2007 - ''Clara and the Computer Mouse'' (Brigid Marlin) * 2012 - ''A Meaning for Danny'' (Brigid Marlin) (Infinity Publishing) * 2022 - ''Techniques in Painting Learning from the Dutch Masters'' (Brigid Marlin) (ISBN 978-1-78994-058-9 eBook 978-1-78994-059-6)


Awards

* 1974 - ''Visions of the Future'', first prize for 'The Rod' * 1984 - International Art Appreciation Award, USA, first prize * 1988 - International Painting Competition, Dublin, first prize


External links


official website



beinArt International Surreal Art Collective

'J G Ballard' by Brigid Marlin
National Portrait Gallery, London

limited edition fine art print by Brigid Marlin
''Unweave A Rainbow''
Brigid Marlin interviewed by Natalie Dekel {{DEFAULTSORT:Marlin, Brigid 1936 births American people of Dutch descent American women artists British people of Dutch descent British women artists Fantastic realism Living people Visionary artists 21st-century American women