For Marion Baars painting has always been important. She is well-known for her portraits of children and received commissions to do the portraits of the Dutch Royal families children. Lately Marion has moved from portraits with crayon and oil to water colours. She designed a card for Unicef and won the Talens award in 1966. In recent work, she has returned to oil, obvious influenced by Monet. The figurative parts seem to have disappeared completely. Her canvasses have coats of paint on top of one another. They are changing into abstract landscapes and seascapes. Not culture, but nature is her new inspiration.