About

Maeve works as a visual storyteller and illustrator. She combines model making, photography and digital techniques in all of her visual stories. She’s fascinated by narrative structures (in stories and society as a whole), and how different kinds of characters and people are represented within them. This is all heavily informed by Maeve’s time working as an actor, where she often found herself wanting to play the male roles, which almost always were far more active and individual than those given to women. In Maeve’s work, she strives for every character to be an individual with a story of their own. Maeve is originally from The Netherlands but has made London (UK) her home 18 years ago.

Her inspiration comes from a limitless number of different directions:

Nature, eccentric animals, David Bowie, Film Noir, Brothers Quay, Nina Simone, Rembrandt, street furniture, Picasso, Paula Rego, super heroes, fairy tales, Jan Svankmajer, Dutch landscapes, junk shops, Fuseli, Shaun Tan, Chris Berens, Patti Smith, George Orwell, Trnka, Shakespeare, Bill Viola, Titian, Maggie Taylor, Alexander McQueen, Prince, Helen Mirren and Jennifer Lawrence among many others.

When Maeve is not in her studio creating weird creatures she can be found supporting fast-moving executive teams in a range of capacities, more on that here.