Annemarie Terlage
Overview
"I love the dazzling glow of an ideal world."
Born in 1967 in the Netherlands, Annemarie Terlage has distinguished herself as a painter with a classical sensibility, melding traditional themes with innovative techniques. A graduate of the esteemed Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1991, Terlage has remained dedicated to her craft within her intimate studio, situated in the heart of the city.
Terlage's oeuvre encompasses landscapes and architectural settings, created through a unique experimental approach that combines epoxy and acrylic paint on canvas. Drawing inspiration from personal memories, old picture postcards, and childhood albums, her work evokes a sense of nostalgia and intimacy. Terlage's compositions feature dreamy, delicate colors balanced by resolute lines, resulting in an impressive depth of space. This harmonious interplay stems from her keen painterly eye and a meticulous study of the material qualities of epoxy and acrylic paint. Occasionally, Terlage infuses her work with an almost hallucinatory glow-in-the-dark palette, inspired by memories of nighttime scenes in the United States. This unconventional touch adds a mesmerizing quality to her otherwise classical compositions.
This unconventional touch adds a mesmerizing quality to her otherwise classical compositions.
Dreams, memories, and visions of an ideal or fictive world inspired her new recent series of paintings; reminiscent images of modern villa’s surrounded by lush gardens and baroque interiors seem to invite the onlooker to wander in her wanderlust.
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Exhibitions
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Time Traveler, Capturing Eras
Solo exhibition by Annemarie Terlage 13 Feb - 22 Mar 2025Impulse Gallery is please to predent the highly anticipated solo exhibition Time Traveler, Capturing Eras by the Dutch artist Annemarie Terlage from 13 February until 22 March.Read more
Annemarie Terlage has long been celebrated for her radiant interpretations of mid-century modernism, where architectural landscapes evoke a world of leisure, optimism, and nostalgia. Yet in Time Traveler, Capturing Eras, she takes a bold leap, exploring a striking duality of time and atmosphere. Alongside her signature sunlit villas, sleek pools, and stylized suburban dreamscapes, Terlage introduces an entirely new body of work—a series of baroque interiors that delve into the grandeur, intimacy, and melancholic weight of history.
Terlage’s artistic journey has mostly been shaped by an exploration of memory, space, and the built environment. Her paintings do not document reality but rather construct imagined places, informed by personal recollections, vintage photographs, and cultural memory. In this exhibition, she contrasts two distinct worlds—one drenched in the saturated colors of mid-century optimism, the other steeped in the dim glow of chandeliers, intricate gilded moldings, and velvety shadows of baroque interiors.
The baroque series marks a profound evolution in her work. While her mid-century modern compositions capture the bold clarity of light and structure, these interior scenes invite a more introspective gaze. Ultimately, Time Traveler, Capturing Eras is not just about aesthetics—it is about the emotional weight of spaces, about how architecture and interiors shape our experience of time. In juxtaposing the bold optimism of the mid-century world with the introspective, atmospheric depth of baroque interiors, Terlage creates a dialogue between eras—one that invites viewers to step in, wander, and lose themselves in time. -
Unexpected Constellations
Group Exhibition 8 Jun - 14 Jul 2023'Unexpected Constellations' is a new group exhibition that brings together the work of artists from different disciplines, generations and cultures in a casual and unexpected dialogue. Unusual formal aesthetic associations...Read more -
In Bunnies and in Colour
Hunt Slonem & Annemarie Terlage 12 Jan - 5 Feb 2023Impulse Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition of 2023 featuring new works by Hunt Slonem and Annemarie Terlage. 'In Bunnies and in Colour' honours the start of the...Read more -
"MEMORIES OF LANDSCAPES"
Solo exhibition by Annemarie Terlage 2 Jun - 2 Jul 2022Impulse Gallery is delighted to soon host the debut solo exhibition "Memories of Landscapes" of Dutch artist Annemarie Terlage. Central in her new bodies of work is her aspiration to share her memories of landscapes in her own unique style.Read more
Annemarie Terlage composes landscapes and architectural settings through her experimental approach of mixing epoxy and acrylic paint on canvas. The array of lush landscapes and compositions in her work captures an almost dreamy delicacy of colours within resolute bold lines that present themselves with the element of depth of space. Dreams, memories, and visions of an ideal world, determine the attractiveness of a new series of monumental paintings Terlage created specially for her debut this season at Impulse Gallery. Aspirational titles like Hazey Haven, Summer of 69, and Melancholic Hill go along with reminiscent images of modern villa’s surrounded by lush gardens and beautifully illuminated pools. This new series seems to invite the onlooker to wander in wanderlust - layer by layer, the eyes are bedazzled by Annemarie Terlage’s memories of landscapes.
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