Steffie de
Leeuw is a Dutch artist, designer who lives and works in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. After graduating from the University of Amsterdam and the ‘Willem
de Kooning’ Art Academy in Rotterdam, Steffie started working in Art, creating
oil paintings. Born with a creative background Art has been taught to Steffie
from an early age. Her father was a great admirer of art, a huge music lover
and a gifted amateur painter and sculptor himself. Not only did he greatly
inspire her by showing her his favorite artists and introducing her to the
beauty of music, he also taught Steffie the art of seeing. Seeing the beauty in
the things that surround us.Her mother,
taught her how to appreciate fashion and creating things with fabrics. At the
age of ten Steffie was making her own schoolbag on the sewing machine. In her
teenage years she was taking pieces of clothing out of her mother and
grandmothers wardrobe cutting and sewing them into unique pieces. She also
inherited her love for travel from her parents, as well as her love for nature
and wild life. Her surname is de Leeuw (the Lion) and you see these animal and
other felines frequently in her work and designs. She combines inspiration from
her own travels with her imagination and fictional influences to create a unique
world of imagination. The last decades have been an artistic journey through
the different expressions of art that now come together in her work. In 2000
Steffie graduated from the ‘Willem de Kooning’ Art Academy. In addition to
creating numerous art works, Steffie has since produced commissioned work for
several well-known retail brands. Creations include illustrations and print
design for fashion items, home furnishings, accessories, luxury scarves,
stationary, wallpaper and so much more, all enhanced with Steffie’s colorful
and handcrafted artworks. In 2016 the brand Steffie de Leeuw launched in
Amsterdam. Steffie de Leeuw only produces on first-class materials, always
trying to minimize the impact on the environment.
Steffie de
Leeuw creates art that appeal to the imagination, which everyone can enjoy
indefinitely.
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