Rineke Marsman’s paintings, created since 1996, are dominated by figures and portraits of children. After the discovery of the monumental book “Children’s Monument”, published in France and edited by Serge Klaasfeld, Lineke Marsman long used the photographs published there as a starting point for his paintings. Did. Not to achieve a moral effect, but rather to express the concept of impermanence in a certain way. This transience was achieved in two ways for her. One concerns the content of the work and the other concerns the painting techniques used. The photographs presented in the book have been copied onto the canvas as accurately as possible. She then paints the selected images, applying layers of transparent paint, often brushing them off, to create moments when presence and disappearance are visually integrated, sometimes in diffused light. I asked for it. We hope that the new images will evoke lasting memories through the sought-after mystical power. A new painting, if the painting is good, brought back memories as a moment of respect. This series ended in February 1999 when her almost complete series Le Memorial des Enfants was exhibited at the Van Her Riecum Museum in Apeldoorn. Her current work focuses on the possibilities of painting itself, and photographs of children remain the starting point for her paintings. They are still children and are destined to live unstable lives on the margins of society. Sometimes they disappeared without a trace or died. By combining abstractions such as flowerbeds and landscapes with new subjects in more complex paintings, the possibilities of painting expand and more complex content can be expressed.
www.ftn-books.com was lucky to acquire several Marsman titles.
In the very long period that i am now active as a bookseller and collector i have seen many Alphabet books published and sold by the most famous of museums. Arguably one of the best, and certainly a personal best was the one designed by Gracia Lebbink. ( i only have a personal copy in my collection) but recently i bought another MUSEUM ALPHABET book which is nice and adventurous. It is the book published by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The museum published a 30 page hard paged book with details of some of the highlights within the collection, making the very youthful in a playful way familiar with the Museums collection. The book was designed and “written” by Gisela Voss and published in 1995 and is well worth collecting. There is nothing to be found on the internet on the author, but this book is one of a series of other books she made for the Boston Museum .This book is now available at 
