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Marcelle Hanselaar was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and travelled extensively in Asia and Europe before finally settling down in her studio in central London. Although she studied briefly at The Royal Academy, The Hague, (1962-64) in oil painting, she is entirely self-taught. In 1992-93 and again in 1995-96, Hanselaar was invited to teach painting at the S.W. Teaching University in Chongqing, China. She also taught drawing at Sotheby’s Educational Institute, London from 1989-99. Around that time, Hanselaar became interested in etching and learned printmaking first at Morley College and later at Kensington & Chelsea College. Marcelle Hanselaar’s early painting was abstract but from 1992 her work became completely figurative. 

Her work relates to the world that she lives in and reflects her responses to stories, heard and read. The works, in spite of their outspoken creator, do not proffer easy answers or solutions; instead they prompt questions. Whilst they may start a certain story, image or thought, her creations favour the universal over the specific, wary of simple explanation or narrow chronology.”

Selected collections:

British Museum Prints & Drawings Collection, London; V&A Prints & Drawings Collection, London.; V&A National Art Library, London; The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA ; Smith College Museum of Art, Ma, USA; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Aberystwyth School of Art Print Collection, Wales; Whitworth Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester; Museum de Reede, Antwerp, Be; Meermanno Museum, House of the Book, The Hague, NL; Soho House, Amsterdam; Clifford Chance Art Collection, London; The Ned, London; Soho Works, London; New Hall Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge; Clare Hall, Cambridge; Swarthmore College, USA;  National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, CN; Guandong Fine Art Museum, Qijiang, CN.