Molly van amerongen
London-based artist, Molly van Amerongen, completed her BA in Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2015 and now works between her studio as a painter and as a freelance specialist-painter and set designer.
Having spent long stints working and living in both India and Mexico her interests lie predominantly with colour and the stories it can tell. She believes colour can bring you back to a particular place and can create new continents, full of detail, allowing memory and imagination to interact. She is interested equally in the domestic and the exotic: in objects and in the spaces between them.
SOLD: Lemon II, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in)
SOLD: Madder Two Scoop, 2020, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in)
SOLD: Maracuyá 3, 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in)
SOLD: Oaxacan Junk Yard, 2020, oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm (30 1/2 x 25 in)
3 Minutes with Molly…
Which artist inspires you the most?
Helen Frankenthaler; the great splashes of colour, the enveloping scale, everything.
Which artist would you like to watch at work? Why?
I would love to spend time in Picasso’s studio. Watching him create his very large works and sculptures would be fascinating.
Desert island disk?
"And a Bang on The Ear" by The Waterboys really gets me going…