"Maartje Blans has created over the last decades a varied body of work, spanning from paintings to installation art. Relying on her natural disposition towards exploring the use of different materials and techniques to create her pieces and impact their meaning, Blans has been able to fill the two above-cited genres with new vigour, and combine them in her oeuvre in a visually compelling and original way. The results are unusual “paintings” endowed with a highly sculptural nature that embody the artist’s need to break away from the bi-dimensional surface and go beyond the limits of the definite space provided by the traditional.
 

The landscapes created by the intermingling of full and empty, absent and present, implied and explicit elements, become more vivid and vibrant under certain lighting conditions. These scenes, as in the best examples of Chinese landscape painting, are the echo of the artist’s state of mind and the viewer’s inner disposition, both elements that complete the works relying on one’s inner eye, and allow their full and deep appreciation."