Every time Dutch artist Anna-Marie Kroes captures a human being or landscape on canvas, the outcome amazes the viewer, but most of all, herself.

"Thank God I can paint and draw, it saved me and makes my heart beat faster" she says.

I always have adored creatures of nature, and after many years of wondering and painting,

3 years ago, I met my new life and made a nest in a little town near Utrecht (NL) enjoying catching this time in which we live.

 

I love life in general. But whenever I try to capture what gives me butterflies, there is a part of me that takes over and guides me through a haunting world where there's no difference between life and death. In a sense it's the most positive place where one can be." It is this side of the internationally acclaimed artist that makes her work totally unique and sought after.