Marie Louise Elshout

Category: 2025

  • Human

    Human, 18x13 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.
    Human, 18×13 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

  • Home

    Home, 13x18 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

    Home, 13×18 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

  • Rhinoceros Skull

    Rhinoceros Skull, 13x18 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.
    Rhinoceros Skull, 13×18 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

  • Vanitas#6

    Vanitas#6 (Albino Mink), 110×80 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025.

  • Vanitas#6 (albino mink)

    Vanitas#6 (albino mink)

  • Hybrid#21 (Rabbits)

    Hybrid#21 (Rabbits) 70×70 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025.

  • Hybrid#20 (Pangolin)

    Hybrid#20 (Pangolin) 100×50 cm, pencil, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025.

    The pangolin is a rare mammal with scales covering it’s skin similar to human nails, they are the only known mammals with this feature. Due to poaching and illegal trade, pangolin populations around the world are drastically declining. In some traditional medicine, pangolin scales are considered a medicine for various diseases. This idea, and the fact that pangolin meat is considered a delicacy in some cultures, has made the pangolin a deadly target on the brink of extinction. 

  • Hybrid#20 (detail)

    Hybrid#20 (detail)
    Hybrid#20 (detail)

  • Hybrid#19

    Hybrid#19 (Narwhal), 190×70 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

    The narwhal is a toothed whale native to the Arctic.
    Narwhals have a distinctive tusk which is usually found only in males. Females rarely grow tusks, but in exceptional cases a female narwhal can develop one. The tusk is not only a distinctive appearance it is also a sensory organ with millions of nerve endings, which allows them to perceive the environment.
    In medieval times, narwhals were hunted for their tusks, people would sell them as unicorn horns, earning narwhals the nickname ‘unicorn of the sea’


  • Hybrid#19 (detail)

  • Girl#12

    Girl#12, 30x24 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.
    Girl#12, 30×24 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

  • Girl#11

    Girl#11, 30×24 cm, pencil, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025.

  • Hybrid#18

    Hybrid#18 (Unicorn), 170×90 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025.

  • Hybrid#18 (Detail)

    Hybrid#18 (Detail)

  • Hurricane#13

    Hurricane#13, 150×50 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025.

    Pulchri Studio is organizing an exhibition in honour of Christiaan Huygens, he is seen as one of the greatest inventors in Dutch history.
    Learning more about this 17th Century scientist I was blown away by this remarkable person; he invented the pendulum clock, was an important mathematician, physicist and astronomer, and was the first to see the ring around the planet Saturn.
    Since his work is so groundbreaking, my painting turned into a hurricane.
    My contribution is based on a portrait of Christiaan Huygens however there are so many female inventors and scientist who never achieved the same spotlight throughout history, I decided to give it a female touch.

    My “warrior”, her feathers for movement and her face painted as a sundial referring to time.

  • Adolescence#1

    Adolescence#1, 80×60 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic and conté on paper.

  • Hybrid#17

    Hybrid#17 (Lizard), 70×70 cm, pencil, charcoal, acrylic, oil and wool on canvas, 2025.

  • Hybrid#17 (Detail)

    Hybrid#17 (detail)
    Hybrid#17 (detail)

  • Vanitas#5

    Vanitas#5, 150 x 200cm, pencil, charcoal, oil, acrylic, cardboard and silk thread on canvas, 2025.
    Vanitas#5, 150 x 200cm, pencil, charcoal, oil, acrylic, cardboard and silk thread on canvas, 2025.

    “An allegory of the ambivalent relationship between human beings and animals throughout history. “

  • Vanitas#5 (Laika)

    Vanitas#5 (Laika)
    Vanitas#5 (Laika)

    Dog Laika, became the first creature to orbit the Earth, as the Russian technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed, Laika’s survival was never expected. She died in space due to stress and hyperthermia. 

  • Vanitas#5 (Cecil)

    Vanitas#5 (Cecil)
    Vanitas#5 (Cecil)

    Lion Cecil, one of Zimbabwe’s most famous lions, tracked by a research team of the Oxford University as part of a long-term study, lived in the Hwange National Park, lured away from his sanctuary he was killed and beheaded as a trophy by an Amercian dentist. 

  • Vanitas#5 (Bubbles)

    Vanitas#5 (Bubbles)
    Vanitas#5 (Bubbles)

    Chimpanzee Bubbles, kept as a pet by Michael Jackson, when he matured into a large and aggressive adult, like many captive chimpanzees unsuitable as a pet, he was disposed of,  he now earns his living painting at the center of Great Apes in the USA.