Marjolaine Escher Born in the Netherlands in 1943, she grew up in Indonesia, Sweden and Holland. Married to a geologist, they have 3 children and lived in Switzerland and Denmark. They went back to Switzerland in 1975 where she now lives in an old farmhouse near Lausanne. Since 1977 she is a self-taught artist making ceramic fantasy sculptures. They have a surrealistic quality that reminds of Aztec and Mayan works from days gone. Each sculpture is unique and is mostly made of glazed clay with a size of around 30 cm.
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