Iris van Zanten (b. 1971) graduated in 1996 at the Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam and gets her Master, History of Art at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Inspired by Bible stories and Romanesque art she is looking for new Images telling a certain story. Iris love to find a new image within the theme.To achieve some softness in her paintings, like a fresco, she developed a technique with sand, bine glue and Van Dyck Brown prepared surfaces on wich she paints with pigments, ink and acrylic. She lives and works in Haarlem, The Netherlands teaching visual art on a secondary school.