Maryleen Schiltkamp is an international graphic artist whose oil paintings combine classical order with colorful temperament, and a wide reference to the continuity of tradition in art. Maryleen was born in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles in 1959.

At present Maryleen lives and maintains a studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Views on Islam: 'Cordoba'
80 x 60 cm, oil on canvas, 2009

"Indeed, what impresses one about Schiltkamp's encounter with Japanese art is how little she strives to make her work actually look Japanese, even when she adopts traditional materials, subjects, and even formats, as seen in "Phoenix (2003)" and "Mandarin Ducks (2002)." Although both works are Sumi-e scrolls and depict subjects familiar in such formats in a traditional ink painting technique, Schiltkamp's brush strokes remain distinctively, recognizably her own, with the same sinuous grace that we see in the contours of her neoclassical compositions in oils on canvas.'

from the November/December issue of "Gallery & Studio"
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