International Design - Marjan van Zeyl

Marjan van Zeyl creates beautiful postcards and books.

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Marjan van Zeyl-Beuker was born in Amsterdam. She has always been inspired by the beauty of nature and expresses this in her artwork. She has illustrated several books for children.

"I was born in Amsterdam on the first of May. A couple of years later, I moved to the neighborhood of Utrecht. On Sundays we often made a bicycle trip that usually ended in the beautiful garden of an intimate and stately lady, a real baroness. She treated us to tea with currant bread that was a real treat so soon after the war! That garden was surrounded by her private wood, so I could walk just in it by passing a small gate. In a moment I stood quiet and completely alone between huge and thick beech trees, bewitched by my own experience. High above there was the blue sky hidden behind the spring-green roof of foliage. The sun was twinkling and a band of light shined on thousands of lilies of the valley. Astonished I enjoyed all that loveliness of those charming little bells, given in a generosity of beauty by the gentle hand of a divine nature. That was the moment I experienced for the first time in my life myself in a very conscious way: ‘Here I may be and what is the world beautiful’. I was three years old in the month of May. I have always kept this memory as a gentle and calm source that I may experience and present its light, colour and beauty full of gratitude."

- Marjan van Zeyl