Through working with camera, tablet together with traditional methods such as biro, ink, watercolour paint and charcoal, Marianne creates images in her personal works which serve to illustrate the allure of imaginative art based on fantasy or idealism in her. Her images derive from personal and private interests. In a public domaine, she strives to challenge these aforementioned idealistic works. Her public work is laced with meaning and issue driven with topics external to the paintings themselves. Techniques such as projection, zooming in to marks and using domestic objects to create art with, whether it be using them to make marks or sticking them onto the work itself, produces images which capture the essence of this personal and public debate.  

 

With the evolution of technology, Marianne seeks to explore how far she can push the boundaries of what can be considered drawing. Through projection, wall-mounted assemblages, installation, digital drawing and even just by splashing ink it raises the question of how much her work can be defined as drawing. Drawing no longer simply relates to charcoal and pencil but through an increasingly digitalised world of graphics and illustration. 

 

Each piece has it's own history, inspired by a eclectic of artists and stemming from previous works, an assemblage can be traced back to a projection which stems from a drawing that was taken from a larger drawing which represented a digitally manipulated and photoshopped photograph. 

 

Her work is highly agnostic of human portraiture, It seeks to display the glamour of day-to-day life but some works are more sinister and swerve away from this stereotype to explore the truth between idealistic dreams. She is also transfixed with the irrevocably complex emotions of the human face, and humanity's qualities of character such as cynicism and addiction. 

 

The passage of time is a key concept present in her works, they deal with the interplay between our past, our childhood memories and how they have moulded the present. What we leave behind to remind others of us, such as journals is also crucial in her art.