Femke HiemstraFemke Hiemstra was born in Zaanstad in 1974, a commuter town close to Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She grew up living near fields where she would roam the dredged ditches in search of stone pipe heads or animal skeletons. If she wasn't building tree ouses or rafts, she would stay at home and read her dad's Robbedoes comic mags from the '60's, her Little Golden Books or the overfilled picture books of Richard Scarry, or she would draw horses and birds of prey on pink paper or construct post offices out of cardboard boxes. Today she lives and works in Zutphen, a hanseatic city in the eastern region of The Netherlands. A collection of her work entitled Rock Candy was published in 2009. She has exhibited internationally and amazing illustrations can be viewed at www.femtasia.nl Read More Read Less