Femke Hiemstra
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My first book ROCK CANDY now available!
Female
100 years old
amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Netherlands
Last Login: 11/27/2009
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Art, my love Mr. L, comics, buying a pile of CD's and listen to new music for weeks, tattoo's, flea markets, my sweet cat 'Nutcase' Noodles, pizza, going to the cinema, graphic design & typography, Flight of the Conchords, DVD marathon nights, illustration, having breakfast out, movies, (race) cycling, the Krampus, buying more books than my shelves can handle, The Devil's Picnic and mother natures creatures (especially dogs & cats & squirrels & Tarsier monkey's). | | Music | From Beatles to Beastie Boys and everything in between. Tom Jones, Cornelius, Beach Boys, Martha Wainwright, Nina Simone, Eagles of Death Metal, P.J. Harvey, The Who, Queens of the Stone Age, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The B-52's, Goldfrapp, Scissor Sisters, Ween, Devendra Banhart, Dirty Sweet, Blur, Songs from the Singing Detective, Arcade Fire, Girls in Hawaii, Pavement, Los Campesinos, Patrick Watson, Graham Coxon, The Wombats, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Fionn Regan, CSS, Four Tet, Radiohead, Ella Fitzgerald, Stephen Malkmus, Vampire Weekend, The Raconteurs, etc. | | Movies | Yes, please | | Television | None, just DVD's every now and then like Deadwood or The Wire | | Books | 
Rock Candy, the first retrospective of my artwork is now available! Publisher Fantagraphics sez: 'Rock Candy, a startlingly gorgeous art collection from a soon to be star on the pop surrealistic circuit, handsomely designed by Jacob Covey. (...) Just pick this one up and flip through it, but come prepared to be seduced'.
 Visit Femtasia.nl to get your copy of ROCK CANDY!
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Fantagraphics recently released the second BEASTS! book, once more curated and designed by Jacob Covey. If you have the first Beasts! book then you know this one is also a wonderful designed must-have compilation of amazing and freaky works based on myths and folk tales. With the works of Jaime Hernandez, Laura Plansker and Craig Thompson and many other artists (including myself). See: www.fantagraphics.com
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Also, the latest publication of Gestalten is on shelves as I type: The Upset, Young Contemporary Art, in which my work is accompanied by art hero’s as Jeff Soto, Ray Ceasar, The Clayton Brothers, Fred Stonehouse, Heiko Muller and Mark Ryden. Order your copy at www.gestalten.com
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking | | Hometown: | amsterdam | | Body type: | 6' 0" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | artist |
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Femke was raised on liquorice and buttermilk, reading her Dad's comics from the 60's, the picture books of Richard Scarry or the Little Golden Books. She lived nearby fields where she would roam the dredged ditches in search of stone pipe heads or animal skeletons. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam, the laid-back Dutch capital.
She's a cinematic fanatic and prefers comic books over novels and one day she hopes to visit Japan or Russia. Or travel to Alaska to see the northern lights. She likes all kinds of music and once said she believed that everybody should have a Tom Jones CD in their music collection. And her cat is the cutest on the block (and that's a fact for sure).
A few years ago she gave up being a full time illustrator to become a full time artist. At her home studio she creates mixed media paintings and black and white graphite drawings about card playing snowmen, lollipop ship captains, giant strawberry wrestlers and Halloween gods with lantern eyes. She often works on vintage objects such as boxes and wrappers, to create imaginary products with magical properties, surrealistic works that invite you to enter the world that lies inside.
Visit her website Femtasia to see recent work. Or add your name to her
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