Monique Beijnvoort (1969, Nijmegen) studied Business Administration, Creative Crafts and completed the Saswitha Training for Yoga and Philosophy. Inspired by nature, she works as a yoga teacher and visual artist.

Increasingly aware of the harmful impact of modern painting materials on the environment, she decides to make a change and delve into natural painting materials. In her own studio she experiments with natural ink and paint, a quest she likes to share with other makers/artists.

Maurice Braspenning (1968, Rotterdam) works and lives in Zoeterwoude. He was trained at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the Rietveld Academy. Braspenning is also curator of the Family Room Art Prize, where young talent is encouraged and showcased every year. The driving force behind Braspenning's work is nature. The painter's view of this world is an ode and produces powerful images in which structure and color play an important role. Its special use gives the image space for other meanings and perspectives.

Iemke van Dijk (1969, Wassenaar) lives and works in Leiden. In Breda she studied graphics at the St. Joost Academy after a year of figure drawing at the Vrije Academie in The Hague.
Order, chaos and repetition are main principles in her work. She uses materials such as porcelain, graphite and watercolor. Her work has an optical effect and is both geometric and organic.
Exhibitions at home and abroad included 'De Stijl and the future'. The light work 'Under influence' was part of the Amsterdam Light Festival 2016/2017. In Leiden her contemporary stained glass windows are permanently housed in Museum De Lakenhal.
Van Dijk curated exhibitions with Guido Winkler, for example for Museum De Lakenhal and Stichting Beelden In Leiden. Their most recent project is EST art foundation.

Thal Jonas (1959, Leiden) puts together very diverse interactive teaching programs around nature, science and technology. He is a researcher and museum lecturer.
For example, Jonas helped develop the 'Lorentz Lab' for Teylers Museum, 'Waterland' for Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and he creates programs for Technolab, IVN and Naturalis Biodiversity Center. He is part of the education program team at the Hortus botanicus Leiden. In the spring of 2025, Jonas will participate in an exchange of educational projects in South Korea between the Hortus and nature organizations from all over the world.

Bastiaan Luijk (1986, Sassenheim) studied architecture at TU Delft (2013). Since 2016, he has been actively using 3D printers to realize his designs. A role as a digital craftsman is beginning to grow, as Lucy Johnston describes in Digital Handmade (2017): producing individual, artisanal work that retains the soul of the material and the skill of the human hand, while also benefiting from the precision, efficiency and increasingly unlimited structural parameters of digital design and manufacturing.

In 2019, Bastiaan started Studio BL and since 2021 he has been a member of Galerie Zône in Leiden, where his work is permanently shown. He exhibited, among others, during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and in the Isola Design Gallery during Milan Design Week.

Nishiko  (1981, Japan) is an artist who graduated from the Photography Course,Visual Communication Major, Department of Design, Tokyo Zokei University, as well as the Department of Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art, KABK The Hague.

She archives her own experiences of encountering non-events, mundane norms,and events that diverge slightly from normality, using media ranging from objects, installations, publications and more. Her major solo show “Repairing Earthquake Project” took place at Stroom Den Haag in 2018. She was longlisted for the 2017 Prix de Rome. The publication “Repairing Earthquake Project 2011-2021” was shortlisted for the DAM architectural book award 2021 and the student selection of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021.

Daniëlle Ooms (1996, Helmond) studied Industrial Design at TU Eindhoven (2021). During her studies, her fascination for the relationship between people and nature arose. Her vision focuses on decentralizing humans and redefining the position of humans in the natural system. She does this in both her role as a researcher at Wageningen University and Research and in her own design studio. In her design processes she worked together with living organisms such as mycelium, bacteria, algae and worms. She exhibited, among others, during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the design museum in Barcelona and the Design Festival Disainiöö in Tallinn.

Iede Reckman (1981, Leiden), graduated from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in 2003 and obtained his MLitt degree from the Glasgow School of Art (UK) in 2013.

In 2003 he co-founded the artists' initiative Billytown in The Hague and has been actively involved ever since.

Reckman attended several artist-in-residence programs in the United States, Korea, Japan, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, France and the Netherlands. In 2019 he made his first permanent sculpture in the public space in Spaarndam.

Maarten Slof (1991, Singapore) uses the ingenuity of the viewer in his work, navigating the area between creativity and technology, supported by broad collaboration.

In the work, the viewer, both human and animal, individual or collective, is challenged to appropriate, complete, or interact with the initial design. Photo: Helena & Sisters.

Barbera Sterk is in the final year of DOGtime, the part-time course at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Sterk's studio is in Zoeterwoude-Dorp and she runs De Haagsche Kopjes in The Hague. This barbershop is also used as an exhibition space.

Sterk makes drawings, paintings and installations for both indoors and outdoors. She uses a variety of materials and techniques for her two- and three-dimensional work.

Lenny Waasdorp independently studied visual arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University in Istanbul and the post-academic DNA in The Hague. She is self-taught as a photographer. Waasdorp investigates photography as a medium while taking photographs.

Her work is included in the collection of the University of Leiden, the board of directors of the Dutch Railways and private collections.

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