Mieke Driessen
In 1978 Mieke Driessen caught her first glimpse of the outside world. 22 years later and she graduated in multimedia from the Graphics School of Multimedia Design at GLE Eindhoven. Just four years further down the line and she obtains an Illustration degree from the St. Joost Art Academy in Breda. What can possibly happen next?!
She could work as a colourful mixed media artist? Illustrate magazines to cheer people up? Provide animation to Sesame Street and design other characters for television or discover a new virus in the shape and form of a Foomp?!
Whatever happens, Mieke Driessen is searching for the power of simplicity in characters, emotions, expression and attitudes. She is fascinated by and focussed on the little things that make people smile. Observe the childlike innocence in her art projects and it becomes clear that Driessen wants desperately to return the happiness of children to the adult world.
