As a child Margrieta used to watch her father in the magical darkroom in the attic of their old house in Slikkerveer. From the windows on the second floor you could look over the 'dijk' and imagine the large river and the windmills in the other side; one of the sounds she still hears in her dreams is the low voice of the mist horns the 'rijnaaks' used at night.' In the attic-darkroom she learned how to develop prints with a lot of critical advice from her father; wich at that time she didn't always appreciate! She still has and cherishes her fathers Praktiflex.

After biology studies with a major in philosophy at Wageningen, Margrieta continued with a variety of studies in bronze casting, painting, etching and ceramics.

She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Algeria, the Caribbean, Chile and Portugal. Her work embraces poetry, painting, etching, sculpture (ceramics), but her main creative outlet is photography. Only recently has she exhibited her photographic work which until now was kept in boxes or on the walls of her home. During the last few years she has received a number of awards and nominations in the International Photographic Awards, Px3, Black and White Spider Awards, Canon Creative Asia Awards, International Aperture Awards 2011 and in the Lens Based Art Show 2010 in Torino (Italy). She is a member of the London Photographic Association.

Currently she lives with her husband and three sons in Italy.

Recognitions: 

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• 2nd place Still Life Photography 2011 - place Global Photo Awards

• Group Exhibition Worldwide Photography Biennial 2012 in the Borges Cultural

  Center Buenos Aires

• Bronze Awards in the International Loupe Awards 2011

• Portraits Portfolio selected for the Silvershotz Folio 2011

• The Enchanted Flowers portfolio selected for the Gammelgaard Monochrome 2011 exhibition in Denmark.

• First prize in the category Still Life, september 2011 Pollux Awards

• IPA 2011 (International Photography Awards), honorable mention in the Deeper Perspective category for the winning entry “a Chinese mother in Italy”

• IPA 2011 (International Photography Awards), honorable mention in the categories Still Life and Nature (Flowers) for the entries Withered Flowers and Mystical Tulips.

• Song of Loneliness selected for Px3 2011, (fineart, book proposal)

• nomination Black and White Spider Awards 2011 (still life)

• Bronze Award in people and portraits, International Aperture Awards 2010

• honorable mention in the International Photographic Awards (IPA 2010) in the category Flowers with  “Song of Loneliness”

• honorable mention in the International Photographic Awards (IPA 2010) in the category Deeper Perspective (Lucie Awards, IPA 2010) with  “Herenstraat 1”

• honorable mention "ArtTension Milan 2010"with "Herenstraat 1"

• finalist in the LPA Documentary competition "my backyard" 2009

• finalist in the LPA competition  "Love, Pain & Beauty"  2009

• special mention in the 'premio fotografico Tau Visual 2008 (Italy)'

• honorable mention in the International Photographic Awards (IPA 2008)