🧑🏻🎨🎨 ✍🏻 Marjolein Bastin (born 1943) is a renowned Dutch nature artist, author and illustrator known for her delicate watercolor paintings of flora, fauna and rural life.
Her career started with contributions to the Dutch women’s magazine Libelle.
She is a long-time collaborator with Hallmark Cards, where her designs are featured on greeting cards, home decor, and gifts.
She achieved international fame for her detailed, observant style and is widely recognized for creating the "Vera the Mouse" children's books and designing for Hallmark's popular "Nature's Sketchbook" line.
The artist's work is heavily influenced by her love for nature, often inspired by her surroundings in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Caribbean and she focuses on the intricate, quiet beauty of nature, often capturing details like birds, flowers, and woodland scenes in watercolor.
Marjolein Bastin has received significant acclaim for her work, including a 🏆Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greeting Card Association and she is considered one of the most cherished nature artists of her generation, frequently using her work to encourage viewers to appreciate the natural world.
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