Some people take a roundabout way before actually settling down to what they really want to do. From her early days Saskia developed an artistic passion. However bread and butter had to come on the table. She decided to follow the teachers training with drawing as her specialization and worked many years in different schools. However the passion never left her and in 1986 she decided to leave the roundabout and she enrolls as an evening student at the Royal Academy in The Hague. The very strict regime at the Academy was not quite to her liking but finally she finished succesfully in 1991. However free from the rules at the Academy she quickly developed her own style. Bright colours and a combination of realism and abstract are the key elements in her work. From that time on Saskia could not be stopped anymore. After the first blow-out exhibition in 1994 Saskia decided to cut the hours of teaching and after 1996 she became a full time artist. After this her name starts circulating among art-loving Holland. Various assignments and exhibitions come on her way, also in countries like Belgium, Germany and Portugal. At the Boukamel Contemporary Art Gallery in London all works displayed were sold out within days. One well known art critic in Holland compared Saskia’s works with Chagall. Probably too much honour, but Saskia’s work makes you happy: that ‘s a statement of an elderly lady who bought a painting of her after her husband’s death. That’s more than enough encouragement for Saskia to continue and make the world look bright and happy.