Was born in 1969 in the Netherlands, and went to St. Joost Art College to study fashion Illustration. During her practical year she worked free lance in Germany for several Magazines. In 1993 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree and started working free lance with a group of Illustrators and designers at an advertising agency as an visualiser and design-assistant. She started to work on the Macintosh with photoshop and Illustrator programs and got really exited about it.
