Marius Lourens – Art, a Spiritual Impulse
“Only creativity brings us close to heaven:
Only those who think and live creatively will survive this life and thereafter. The colourful, the abundant, and the manifold are always better than mediocrity and uniformity. When I take my pencil on an excursion some of the images become paintings, others laser cut steel sculptures, and others just a moment in time. I hope you will enjoy the joyride”.
Artist bio
For Marius, a Dutch Reformed Church minister, art is a way of living, it comes very easily. He regards the creative process as a spiritual calling, a meditation about reality and what defines life. He also believes that artists are equipped with antennae that intercept the signals of time and reproduce it in their work. The work of the artist, therefore, cannot be done through power, diligence, or intelligence – but through a spiritual impulse which guides the hands or does not guide them.
Life consists of different rhythms, patterns, moments, emotions, encounters, and meanings. I therefore like to take my pencil and brush on an excursion and draw and paint what I feel not what I see in a playful manner! The world is serious enough. It is about the subject you paint, but going beyond, not what the eye sees, but what life means to you and to catch the moment. Therefore, your work will depict feelings and emotions to help people look more closely and think.
The process of art requires experience, dedication, boredom, excitement, dissatisfaction, and an eye for possibilities. You have to enjoy the process, playing with its variety.