Marlies Appel (Dongen, 1945) lives and works in Overveen, The Netherlands. Marlies Appel got her degree in the arts at the Rietveld Academy in the seventies. Her work is represented in several public and private collections: Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, The NOG collection of SNS REAALfonds, ABN/Amro art collection and the Bouwfonds art collection in Hoevelaken. Marlies Appel exhibited in galleries in Holland and abroad, for instance: Gallery Rob de Vries in Haarlem, Gallery Apunto, Gallery Oele, Gallery Espace, Johan Deumens Gallery in Amsterdam, Gallery Nanky de Vreeze in Middelburg, Gallery Inga Kondeyne in Berlin, Germany.Her work was shown in: Into Drawing, An exhibition of Contemporary Dutch Drawings, traveling through Europe: Limerick City Gallery of art, Limerick, Ireland; Coda Museum, Apeldoorn. Holland; Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany. Instituto Universitario Olandese, Firenze, Italy. (from: the website of the artist)