Marianne Van Vyve

Marianne Van Vyve (1943-1991) was a Belgian painter who lived and worked in Antwerp. Never affiliated with any particular group, she followed her own artistic inclination, often against the prevailing trends of the time. She chronicled her emotional landscape through her art, in the intimacy of her various studios.

This book explores her intriguing work, examining the influence of her academic training on her formative years and outlining her surprising evolution as a painter. It also reappraises Marianne Van Vyve as a powerful female artist in the wider art historical context, and highlights the quiet radicalism of her later work, with roots in traditional Native American medicinal teachings.