Location: The Netherlands
Henriëtte Kros
Atelier Henriette Kros
Oudendijk 55
3318AG Dordrecht
Nederland
0031(0)78-6224134
Dutch Master Painter
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Henriëtte Kros van de Water is a versatile professional artist and makes alongside her own work many commissioned art in its own style. Meanwhile, she has been acclaimed many works to her name! Whether it is portraits of people or animals, cityscapes, landscapes, still lifes, abstracts or pen drawings, everytime she takes the challenge succesfully together with the customer in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphite or ink. The appearance of the eyes of a human being or animal is the reflection of the character and the textures are almost tangible!
Henriette was born on the 14th of September 1969 at Son en Breugel in the Netherlands as Henriëtte van de Water. Was a student at the Doelesteyn college in Dordrecht, studied Fashion and Clothing from 1985 till 1988. There she learned all about fashion design, figure drawing and has become a very active painter exhibits in galeries and musea in London ( England), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Sitguna (Sweden) Amsterdam, Rotterdam , Apeldoorn, Leiden, Soest, Kerkrade, Maastricht, Dordrecht and Amstelveen in the Netherlands.
She won the first prize at “De Regionale Kunstdagen” Rotterdam 2012, was nominated with several artworks in 2012, 2013, 2014, won exhibitions in several painting contests as “Schilderij van het Jaar” January 2013 in Museum Jan van der Togt and in The Griffin Gallery in Londen and an exhibition in The Coda Museum in Apeldoorn and alsow she is recently published in the “Jaarboek Kunstenaars” 2013, 2014 and the “Artgide Amsterdam” 2014. In January 2015 she will receive at the Biennale in Palermo, de Dante Alighieri Award !