A story of ART 

Meet ESTHER

Hi all! Thanks for checking out my website. I am Esther,  26 years young and living in Groningen, the Netherlands. 

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I have not always had a passion for painting and illustrating. In fact, it actually is a fairly new thing for me. As a kid I used to be the creative one, and with an artist as mom this was obviously heavily encouraged. But as I grew older, other things turned out to be more exciting and worth my time.  Duurzame webshop. Handgemaakte ansichtkaarten en posters. 

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Adventures, sports and being outside and in nature makes me happy. Hiking, walking, running and snowboarding, as long as it is outside. Unfortunately, one day in the summer of 2018 I got bitten by a tick that gave me Lyme Neuroborreliosis. A nasty period followed in which I could do less and less of my usual activities. I started to fill up these empty hours on the couch with painting and shortly after, I started my Instagram account @illustrationsbyEsther. To my surprise, I received many encouraging messages and my follower base grew steadily. My main inspiration? Nature of course!

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Since March 2019 I am recovering well and I started to feel alive and kicking again. Of course being sick is not fun, but because of this period I now have  commissions, a website and I can call myself an entrepreneur. And besides that, it gave me time to think; what is important to me? What do I want and what should I maybe let go?

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So here I am, a brand new artist with a webshop, an Instagram account, a head filled with ideas, a healthy body and great friends and family. Sometimes unexpected obstacles can have the greatest outcome.

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With love,

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