Marlien Kulsdom - Gateway Moonlight 2

Marlien Kulsdom is a visual artist with a background in fashion design. Her creative journey is rooted in a passion for detail and composition. Choosing integrity over convention, she left fashion behind to pursue a more honest and sustainable form of expression through painting.

Her work now focuses on themes such as climate change, escapism, and the search for sanctuary: a gateway to another world just beyond the visible horizon. Her canvases flicker with neon light -symbols once steeped in hope and progress- now pulsing with uncertainty. In these glowing lines, she expresses her unease with a future shaped by digital illusions. Her work urges us to question whether we will awaken from this haze in time to reconnect with the physical, the real, and the meaningful. Are we drifting deeper into comfort, into curated truths, while the real world slips further from view? Through her work, Marlien invites the viewer to pause—to step out of the digital haze and into something more tactile, more uncertain, and ultimately, more real.