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Marie Young
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Biography Marie Young is one of an extraordinarily talented group of siblings: brother Johnny is a bush toy maker, and sisters Camilla and Leonie are fine painters. All the Young siblings have been added to fine art collections, public and private in Australia and overseas. Marie has been painting with Keringke since 1995. About her art Marie says: "I like to use the desert colors, the orange and the ochre colors. I particularly like to use really bright colors on silks and ceramics. Sometimes I go out bush with my brother and I look at all those colors, the desert colors are bright and vibrant where we live. I like to paint around a centre or I get lost in the pattern.I always start in the middle..just like if I go out bush and I walk away from the camp, if I don't keep looking back there, I would be lost. I put down the big painted shapes first, and the bit in the middle and then I go from there. I use my own designs that have come to me from years of painting. I use my own color ideas to. Next I fill in the larger sections with motifs that I recognise, but that don't have other meaning. Last thing is to look over the whole painting and to put all the really fine dots in, making the whole surface be together, like it looks in my country. I like to paint neat and detailed work, it represents what I like in life. Before, people used to use match sticks to paint, but now we have these little bottles and brushes. Exhibitions: 1996 1997 1998 2004 2005 2006 Special Projects & Achievements: |
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