The Source Within

Artist Statement

My work originates from a refined sensitivity to perception: an ability to register subtle shifts in awareness, sensing structures, and form before they become visible or defined. I translate these perceptual layers into painting and drawing, where inner movement becomes material through color, light, and composition.

My work does not aim to frame reality as fixed or singular, but to make continuously forming perceptual fields tangible, both individually and collectively.

I understand experience as relational and shared. What we perceive is never fully isolated; it exists within overlapping fields of influence, attention, and awareness. Within this space, a work can act as a mirror, a point of coherence, or a perceptual shift.

Each painting holds multiple states of being at once: what is, what is in transition, and what has already transformed. Rather than illustrating a narrative, the work invites direct engagement with these layered states.

Across my practice, I work with what I call White Dot awareness: a way of sensing the unique and shared point of alignment within individuals, groups, and collective fields.This awareness informs how each work is formed -not as an object, but as a field- where perception can reorganize itself through visual encounter.

Ultimately, my work invites perception into presence, where what is already present becomes visible without needing to be explained.

Biography

Marijn is a visual artist working at the intersection of perception, consciousness, and form. Through painting and drawing, she translates invisible inner structures into visual compositions of color, light, and movement.

What is often unspoken becomes visible in her work: the underlying essence of individuals, society, and collective structures. Each work functions as a visual inquiry into what lies beneath appearance.

Alongside her autonomous work, she develops the White Dot practice—a commissioned body of work that translates moments of transition, emerging potential, and becoming into visual form. These works map the direction of individuals, projects, and organisations through three levels of inquiry: Visual Key, Visual Phase, and Visual Source.

Marijn van Oosten’s work is informed by a lifelong fascination with inner and collective awareness, perception, and imagination. Living and working across New York, Japan, Switzerland, and more than 30 countries has shaped a deep interest in how meaning is formed across cultures, expressed through a universal visual language.

Her practice invites the viewer into heightened presence, where clarity arises not through explanation, but through perception and experience.

For commissions and inquiries: www.ukio.co

White Dot Commission

Alongside her autonomous practice, Marijn van Oosten develops the White Dot practice: a commissioned body of work that translates moments of transition, emerging direction, and potential into visual form.

Each commission begins with a process of visual inquiry and unfolds through three levels of depth:

Visual Key

A focused inquiry into a specific question or direction.

Visual Phase

An exploration of a life phase, project, or transition.

Visual Source

An extensive inquiry into the underlying source and emerging direction of an individual, project, or organisation.

Interested in a White Dot artwork created specifically for your life, project, or organisation?

Commissions are available upon inquiry: www.ukio.co