Master of Japanese ink painting Sumi-e

Marjon de Jong is a
Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) Master

Marjon de Jong is internationally renowned and respected as a Sumi-E Master for her ink paintings on rice paper. She is considered and recognised as the world's most prominent Sumi-E artist and Master in the field of Japanese ink painting. The fact that this is considered special has induced the Dutch TV channel KRO-NCRV to make a documentary about her. In 2019, film director Alexander Oey was asked to make a film about her as a Sumi-E Master, her work and her life. The documentary, titled 'De Schoonheid van de Leegte' (‘The Beauty of Emptiness’), was first broadcast on 7 April 2019 and has since been transmitted on TV several times.
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Besides many exhibitions in galleries and museums in The Netherlands, she also exhibited in, among others, the United States, Japan, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, and Germany. She had a major exhibition at Art Miami.

By invitation, she also held workshops and lectures in Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan.

Sumi-e is a traditional oriental art form of (mainly) black ink painting on rice paper. Marjon started to paint in 1985. For a couple of years, she took lessons with Eiko Kondo, who quickly noticed that Marjon had a natural talent, particularly in the zen style, i.e. the art of omitting. She is said to have an exact sense of and a perfect balance in composition. These qualities must be innate, they cannot be learned.