Marianne Hurum (born 1978 in Oslo, where she lives and works) is a
Norwegian painter and
sculptor.
Hurum's world of images is full of visual energy. Using her own colorful
vocabulary of tart yellow, green, and pink, she alternates effortlessly
between monumental and small sizes on canvas and paper. Her stylistic
idiom is
abstract and
gives the impression of being spontaneous. Her colours are often highly
diluted with water, and with this technique she generates a fluid sense of
movement that leads both into and out of the pictures. Starting with a
transparent, abstract layer of colour, identifiable shapes emerge and are
repeated: the bow, the crab, and the flower. These shapes appear in her
paintings,
watercolours,
and sculptures. Marianne Hurum has an open and free approach to
art-historic traditions and, not least, the use of materials—she finds
plastic as stimulating and important as bronze.
