Esther Janssen was born in 1976 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She attended the Design Academy Eindhoven from which she received a BFA (Cum Laude) in 2000. Part of her graduation work consisted of a large scale fake leather sculpture titled ’The Pink House’ which catapulted her from the world of design into the realm of autonomous art. After graduation Esther chose to continue on the path of art. Her education in design and the broad range of techniques combined with the conceptual vision the academy had offered, turned out to be pivotal in developing her own distinctive style and approach as an artist: her works are based on a long digital design process leading up to a painting and a highly technical and almost inhuman execution and level of precision and patience. The academy was vital for Esther’s early adoption of digital possibilities. It led to the start of her series of digital paintings which earned her a fund for your talent from the Mondriaan Fund. After a series of smaller presentations, her work was shown in a museum context in a large group show at the Gemeentemuseum of The Hague. From that moment on her work attended both national and international shows and art fairs including Art Rotterdam, Art Cologne and Art Basel. Esther had her first international solo exhibition in Florence, Italy. By that time she had already started to work with fake leather in the shape of sewn objects and later sewn paintings. She had her first museum solo at Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands. Her work was also shown in a group show in New York, USA. It displayed three of her ongoing ‘Disaster’ series paintings made out of imitation leather. In fall 2021 opens her first solo show in London, UK. Esther three times received grants for proven talent by the Mondriaan Fund and Stroom Fund. Her work is part of public collections including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Municipal Museum Helmond, DSM Art-Collection, the Province of Limburg, and of private collections worldwide.