Martine Thoelen's art is subtile and comes to us as a soft whisper, a breeze. We follow her then into a world of sensual love and mystery connected with childhood. This freshness in Martine Thoelen's art can also become a game when she wants to provok us. But it still remains an affectuous game.

 

Her colors, the shapes, her subjects reveal the perpetual need to draw and paint beauty. Martine Thoelen's art is a benefactor balm, a resting chair as Matisse defined his vision of what art was supposed to be. Her colors are peaceful and we feel all the affection and the tenderness she has for humanity. Each of her artpiece appears as a poem, in fact Martine Thoelen is a poet -who instead of puting her feelings into words- spreads colors and shapes figures on a canvas.

 

Martine Thoelen's art is full of love for her models, for the faces the paints. She tailors the world as fancy cloth, a cloth that delicately wraps and covers us. Martine Thoelen's art cuddles us, is a lullaby that soflty rings at our ears.

 

Jack Nall

New York, NY