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MARC SPIJKERBOSCH ARTIST MURALIST TROMPE L’OEIL SPECIALIST |
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Wilderness Gallery International Muralfest winner 2008 2009 2010 |
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BIOGRAPHY |
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Marc Spijkerbosch picked up a paintbrush at an early age . Armed with a love of New Zealand’s natural beauty, and inspired by a youth filled with hunting, tramping and fishing the back-country, he has held a number of successful landscape exhibitions.
In 1992 Marc was appointed Supervising Artist on the Aranui Murals Project, Christchurch, and here the journey into trompe l’oeil began.
A self-initiated response to the Rotorua graffiti problem saw a number of murals appear throughout the city, and culminated in his receiving of a civic award in 1996.
In the last 20 years, Marc has painted some 500 trompe l’oeil works for hotels, restaurants, residential, civic and corporate clients. His work sees him travel extensively around New Zealand, with murals in Australia, India, and the United States.
Using the trompe l’oeil genre, Marc won the prestigious judge’s award at the International Muralfest, Sheffield,Tasmania in 2008, 2009. and again in 2010.
“The trompe l’oeil device has a tremendous inherent ability to engage the viewer. It is a bridge; a threshold that connects the actual with the imagined. The more I explore the world beyond this threshold, the more exciting and rewarding this discipline becomes.”
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Marc Spijkerbosch, BA (English), (1967— )
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Marc’s studio and gallery are on the shores of the pristine Lake Rotoma, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, where he lives with his wife and three children. |