ABOUT MARIANNE PASMANS        

Marianne Pasmans was born in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and has been working and living in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the Middle East since 1994. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in product design from the Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht. While finishing her first year she was giving an opportunity to work for the National State Archive in their Restoration department. Her time with the National State Archive provided her with access to history hands-on; restoring amongst others; books, seals & charts. After 2 years of extensive training at the National State Archive she decided to return to the Academy and complete her art degree. Marianne did so while giving training courses in manual bookbinding at the Maastricht Graphic Art Centre till 1987.

​In 1994, Marianne moved to Bahrain. After working for 13 years in banking industry, she had an opportunity to fully commit herself to art & design. She enjoyed several solo and group exhibitions since 2006 and her paintings adorn the walls worldwide, selling her artwork on a growing & consistent basis since its conception.

Teaching art & design to adult enthusiasts and talented adolescents through extensive courses have been added to her schedule since 2006. Her paintings tend to be evocative, colorful, prolific & expressive, applying techniques from mixed media to palette knife, taking inspiration from nature & travel.

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Her first publication, Plantations in the Kingdom of Bahrain, is available on Amazon.

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Souvenirs Asiatiques is a series of photo/coffee table books about Asia. Souvenirs Cambodia is already available with Thailand and Nepal in the pipeline.