Hi! My name is Githa (1977), and I am a professional oil painter and pencil artist.

I’ve been drawing and painting since the moment I could hold a pencil. Inspired by books, films, and all kinds of treasures—dead or alive—that I collected during my wanderings through local nature, I sat at my mother’s kitchen table, producing an endless stream of crafts, drawings, stories, and comics.

But all children grow up (…except one, according to Peter Pan:)). I went to college, earned a degree in Communications, found a very serious job in a very large company, and forgot about my art for a while. The urge to create, however, remained as strong as ever, and it led me to the Fotoacademie Amsterdam, where I studied photography in the evenings for a few years.

Soon, I began creating photo manipulations composed of hundreds of image layers—and I loved it! It felt like a grown-up version of my crafting days at that kitchen table. That was the moment I decided to return to what I love most: drawing, painting, storytelling. And that’s what I’ve been doing ever since.

My main focus are drawings and paintings in which imagination and realism meet. Just because I like the world a little better right next to reality.