ANS DEBIJE WAS BORN AND RAISED in the Netherlands. The eldest of five children, she developed a love of art and drawing from an early age. After leaving school, she studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, graduating as an interior and fashion fabric designer in 1984. Despite continuing to paint and draw, she only took up art full-time after losing her job in 2018. Since then, she has become a successful still life artist, renowned for her ability to capture the glint of light reflecting off glass and metal. ansdebije.nl
My early paintings were somewhat surreal.
In retrospect, the Design Academy course didn’t get me what I wanted. Drawing and painting lessons were