Sobre el Artista

Amsterdam based artist Merel Ellen explores the ways we are shaped by our past experiences and current emotional default modes. Starting point is often the mirror; where she finds herself in her own personal emotional development. Coming from a background in neuropsychology she likes to combine different viewpoints, from scientific to more esoteric. She is currently exploring how we flow from one state of consciousness into another and to what extend we can influence this and how we can do that. She makes drawings, paintings and uses her own and found photographs in her work. Merel takes inspiration from travelling, nature, big cities, rituals, photography, literature and spiritual theories and beliefs of different cultures.