Marlie Duizings is a Dutch visual artist whose work explores the interplay between the visible and the invisible world. After completing her teacher training in visual arts at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts, she continued her studies in Sculpture there, later pursuing further artistic development at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Marlie worked as an art teacher in secondary education, where she took great joy in guiding students through their own creative processes. Throughout her teaching career, she remained dedicated to her own artistic practice; continuously drawing, painting, and photographing. Today, she focuses full-time on her personal work.
Her artistic practice centers on painting and works on paper. Her photographs often serve as a starting point, capturing impressions, forms, and light that later find their way into her paintings. In her art, she weaves together imagery from nature with inner experiences; the images that arise when she closes her eyes.
Her ongoing exploration of perception and imagination has given rise to series such as Inner Landscapes. Archetypal forms and traces of the creative process itself frequently recur in her work. Through her art, Marlie seeks to reveal the unseen layers of existence; the subtle movements and emotions that lie beneath the surface.