MIRELLE VEGERS
Experience. Craftsmanship. Refinement. Realism and interpretation. Light and depth. Layered and timeless.
Mission
There are subjects that stop you. Not because of how they look, but because of what they carry.
I paint to capture that. The presence beneath the surface. The character that is already there, waiting to be seen. I paint it because I understand what it does to you. It does the same to me.
Artist statement
My work is rooted in admiration. For the horse. For the child. For anything that moves through this world with honesty and without pretence. What fascinates me is not the exterior alone but the duality underneath. The strength and the vulnerability. The way a subject reveals itself when you look long enough.
I work in figurative realism, but photo-realism is not the goal. What I seek is the moment where technique becomes invisible and presence takes over. My background in graphic design keeps me attentive to form and balance. My instinct pulls toward the impressionistic. The work lives somewhere between those two.
Symbolism enters when it earns its place. Often the subject itself is enough.
Vision
A painting is finished when the subject looks back at you and you recognise something you cannot name. When the viewer keeps looking without knowing why, and the imagination quietly takes over. That is what I am working toward in everything I paint. A horse. A child. A bowl of fruit. A moment from daily life.
The subject changes. The question stays the same: what is already here, waiting to be seen?
Bio
Mirelle Vegers is a Dutch figurative realist painter with over thirty years of experience. She works primarily in oil, combining classical technique with a direct, contemporary approach. Her method shifts depending on what the work demands, from layered construction to immediate, intuitive mark-making.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at The Mara’ee exhibition in Bahrain and the Dutch Equine Art Fair in Amsterdam. A commissioned work hangs in the Royal Stables in The Hague, presented to King Willem-Alexander by the Cavalry Honour Escort.
Original paintings from her studio have found their way into private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Bahrain and the United States.
She works from her studio in Deest, the Netherlands.
Exhibitions & projects (selection)
2025
• Group exhibition at The Mara’ee, Bahrain
• Solo exhibition Archea, Buren
• Dutch Equine Art Fair, Amsterdam
• De Paardenkamp, Soest – From Muse to Masterwork
2024
• Dutch Equine Art Fair, Amsterdam
• Group exhibition at De Paardenkamp, Soest – Connection
2023
• Dutch Equine Art Fair, Amsterdam
• Group exhibition at De Paardenkamp, Soest – Nobel
2022
• Group exhibition at De Paardenkamp, Soest
2020
• Featured on national television, Sterren op het Doek – painted a portrait of presenter Eva Jinek.
2018–2022
• Exhibition of work, Letchworth Garden City, England
2013
• Jumping Amsterdam – art project
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