Maria Dellaert: Lost Techniques and Shimmer of Gold

In the quiet folds of the countryside of Zeeuws Vlaanderen, Maria Dellaert brings her artistic vision to life amid beeswax, gold leaf and whispering seasons. Educated at ArtEZ in Arnhem, she has cultivated a practice that draws deeply from nature’s subtle rhythms and ancient techniques. 

Dellaert’s work speaks of a delicate vulnerability: the materiality of beeswax, the shimmer of gold, the softness of pastel—all together tracing a dialogue between human fragility and elemental strength.

The encaustic technique she employs—where pigment is mixed with hot beeswax and then burnt in—makes the artwork both timeless and fragile, as if each piece holds a breath of the seasons themselves. Her subjects reference nature and the human condition entwined: the way texture can hold emotion, the way translucency can carry quiet presence.