Shape, color and texture

Shape, colour and texture are recurring elements in my work. Through sculpture, textile and wall objects, I explore how materials, forms and ideas can develop and transform.

Each material offers different possibilities and challenges, inviting new ways of thinking, creating and shaping.

What connects these works is an ongoing fascination with traces, patterns and the relationships between forms, materials and the spaces they occupy.

Contemporary embroidered textile wall artwork by Maarten Donders, featuring a cluster of colorful organic shapes, layered textures and delicate stitched lines on a neutral fabric background.

Textiles

Contemporary wooden sculpture by Dutch artist Maarten Donders, featuring an abstract organic composition of rounded, interlocking forms resting on angular wooden elements.
Contemporary wooden sculpture by Dutch artist Maarten Donders, featuring rounded organic forms and angular wooden elements, displayed on a low platform against a neutral wall.

Sculptures

Close-up of a carved wooden sculpture by Maarten Donders, showing abstract organic relief forms, rounded cavities and the natural grain and warm tones of the wood.
Contemporary sculptural wall artwork by Dutch artist Maarten Donders, featuring layered abstract wooden forms, organic shapes and textured surfaces arranged in a vertical composition.

Wall objects