I was an equine veterinarian,
now I am
myself.
![Marjo Lebbe Equine artist and equine veterinarian](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marjo-1024x1024.jpg)
![Artist Marjo Lebbe when she was 5 years old](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG-20210105-WA0012-759x1024.jpg)
![Walter Lebbe with Marjo Lebbe when she was a child](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_20181217_125824_6-867x1024.jpg)
![Walter Lebbe, watercolor artist, grandfather of artist Marjo Lebbe](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_1010-683x1024.jpg)
The introversion, creativity and stubbornness were there from the start and as a girl of 3 years old I was already painting watercolours in my grandfather’s studio. Until today loosing him feels like loosing a part of myself.
One of the reasons why I paint is to connect and communicate with my late grandfather (Walter Lebbe, a talented watercolorist), who still may be there with me, looking over my shoulder while I paint.
![Marjo Lebbe as equine veterinarian at a client at work](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FB_IMG_1675444770914-762x1024.jpg)
Putting my veterinary career on hold, I am now a full-time artist on a mission to help horse and owner a different way.
One of the reasons why I paint is to give my understanding for all the misunderstood horses of my veterinary career a place. I provide a voice for all these horses I met during my time as a veterinarian. Giving them a place to be horse again on my canvas, I try to bring understanding and awareness of their needs, fostering a closer relationship with nature.
![Marjo Lebbe as an equine veterinarian with her black horse](https://marjolebbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FB_IMG_1675444773218-864x1024.jpg)
“Nature has been my endless source of inspiration, but I have to admit that horses hold a particular and enduring fascination.”
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“I believe that art should have a deep connection with spirituality, that colour should have a symbolic meaning, and that the act of painting should be both instinctive & uninhibited just like the horses that I paint.”
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“I inherited my passion for horses from my mom, who put me on a horse when I wasn’t yet able to walk.”
“As an artist with an equine veterinarian background I specialise in expressing the freedom, naturalness and instinct of horses.
I want to paint an emotion, a feeling, a connection or an atmosphere. I want to express the freedom and peace that horses give in my watercolour technique, full of movement and naturalness as it assumes the canvas’s own materiality and color as a negative space in my works.
I consciously accept randomness and I know that it is an operator of my works. It is in this space that the poetics of randomness and freedom are situated.”