Featured Artist Marina de Wit

Artist Marina de Wit uses natural light, texture, and softly muted colors to create her ethereal photographs of flowers. Visit her website to see more of her portfolio.

 

 

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”  – Vincent van Gogh

 

 

My name is Marina. I am a self-taught photographic artist who is a dreamer at heart with a love of the old masters Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. In 2014, daily evening walks through beautiful Coatesville, New Zealand introduced me to photography.

 

 

My snapshots with my iPhone soon turned into a full-time obsession, and a real DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera soon followed.

 

 

Painting was never my calling. Instead, I capture natural light to create photographic images, especially those of flowers.

 

 

My images are very personal and reflect not only my emotional connection with nature but also the current mood I am in.

 

 

I am fascinated with how people view the world and how a single image captured in time can have such different meanings or impact in our lives.

 

 

Photography allows me to discover the magic in places that others may see as ordinary.

 

 

My camera is both paintbrush and paint using natural light, blur and gorgeous textures; I share my vision through a lens. My childhood memories of my grandmother’s garden, of discovering sweeping African landscapes and wild oceans continue to inspire me to capture the beauty of our natural world.

 

 

It is important for me to have an emotional connection to my subjects, and I love sharing my work with people who can appreciate the emotion and story that each image portrays.

 

 

Most of my floral images are named after the inspirational woman in my life—my mom, sister, daughter, and my friends, but most importantly my grandma Wilhelmina. She is unfortunately long gone, but I often smell or feel her presence in the gardens I visit.

 

 

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward

 

Artist Marina de Wit invites you to follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

 

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