Tina Marseille
Heidelberg
Lives and works in Heidelberg. Her abstract to figurative work explores emotion, reflection, and the balance between intuition and composition.
Message
Tina Marseille is a contemporary artist based in Heidelberg, Germany. Her abstract to figurative work explores emotion, human presence, and critical reflection. With a background in Communication Design from Trier and Nancy, she has balanced a career in user experience design with a steadily deepening commitment to her painting.
Her works are process-driven and multi-layered, using acrylics, ink, pigments, wax, and reclaimed materials. Influenced by artists like Joan Mitchell and Jenny Saville, Marseille combines gestural expression with strong compositional clarity.
Her work has been exhibited in Germany and Luxembourg and has entered private collections.
Statement
The artist’s work emerges from a deep joy in emotion, reflection, and subtle perception. In contrast to an increasingly accelerated world, she embraces a slow rhythm, depth, and connection. Her abstract to figurative mixed-media pieces invite the viewer to pause, to sense, and to immerse themselves in the nuances both within and around us.
Her artistic language shifts playfully between vibrant and quiet tones. She works in a multi-layered way with acrylics, ink, oil pastels, pigments, wax, and oil paint, using increasingly sustainable materials. Leftover colors and found objects are an intentional part of her compositions, reflecting care for the environment and a respect for what already exists.
Her process is guided by intuition and composition. She follows her inner voice and welcomes chance as part of the creative journey. Clear structures bring form to the chaos, creating tension and calm in equal measure. Her sensitivity for visual structure, color, and form is rooted in her design studies in Trier, Germany and Nancy, France. This foundation now flows into her work both instinctively and intentionally.
After a long phase shaped by career focus, family life, and health-related challenges, she returns to art with renewed energy, inner strength, and joy.