Marie Vermeulen Breedt was born on 7 May 1954 in Pretoria. After completing her school career with a distinction in art, she went on to acquire a BA Fine Art at the University of South Africa with a distinction in painting. She also completed a course in portraiture at the Royal Academy in London, 1976. Today Marie is a highly successful artist whose work is in constant demand. With technical virtuosity and a keen sense of line and colour she explored still life, landscape and portraiture, yet in the end, it was the human face and figure that fascinated her most. However, it is always the masterful handling of her medium that captures one's attention. Colour is applied boldly with palette knife, brush and even fingers, only to be contrasted with areas of supreme subtlety and sensitivity. Whether the painting is a traditional portrait, landscape as portrait, to still life and interior as portrait, the artist's prime focus is the persona, the comment made is always about people.
Marie has been painting for a number of years and her work is known in South Africa and across the world.
With technical virtuosity and a keen sense of line and colour she explored still life, landscape and portraiture, yet in the end, it was the human face and figure that fascinated her most.
Her work
Her painting reflects a spirit of Romanticism while her pre-occupation with light infuses her style with shades of impressionism.
Her canvases create a theatre for the dance of light where all kinds of objects become chunks of colour modelled by light
