My little treasure

Mijn Schatje, Paris

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Marie, whose Dutch Grandmother used to call her "mijn schatje" ("my little treasure"). She lived in an eighteenth century castle in France and spent her days reading fairy tales, making jewelry out of the flowers in the garden and playing Princess and Knights with her brother and her pony. When Marie grew up she moved to Paris, got seriously into Electro and learned ninja Illustrator skills, which she now uses to capture her childhood fairy tale in meticulously beautiful vectored lines.

At the moment her work can be seen at the KochXBos gallery in Amsterdam from March the 14th to April the 14th 2009. "Storytelling" is the name of her solo show: Human History shows that there have always been stories, legends, tales, even at the times when most of the people couldn't read, they learned stories by heart and told their children and their children told their children and so on...

Mjin Schatje: "When I was a young child, my parents told me stories or read a book for me before I went to sleep. I remember how I loved it, sometimes it was very dreamy and sometimes a bit scary, but it always made me travel to some exciting new worlds just by feeding my imagination. I believe this is how my creativity was born, and I still believe that even the grown ups need somebody to tell them a story. Storytelling is the action of expressing and sharing ones imagination (and hope) with the world."

Credits from Mjin Schatje on Myspace
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=199299