The Collection

Artistic Technique

Annemarie Griek employs a richly layered oil painting technique that brings depth and vitality to her canvases. Working primarily with traditional oil paints, she builds her compositions through successive layers of color, allowing each one to dry partially before applying the next — a method that enhances luminosity and texture. Her brushwork is expressive yet controlled, often blending fine detail with broader, gestural strokes that give her work a dynamic and emotional quality. In her later works she mostly uses the paletknife in order to get more vibrand colors.

Griek’s palette is typically bold and saturated, suggesting a deep engagement with the physicality of paint itself. She often works wet-on-wet in initial stages to capture immediacy, then refines her pieces using glazing techniques — thin, transparent layers of color that subtly shift light and tone across the surface. Her use of impasto, where paint is applied thickly to create texture, invites viewers to engage with the work not only visually but also tactilely.

The result is a body of work that feels alive — pulsing with color, layered with memory, and grounded in the tactile beauty of oil on canvas.