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P a u l i n e v a n d e V e n
After the early death of her mother and difficulties to adapt to a new family situation, Pauline van de Ven (Houthem-Sint Gerlach, Netherlands 1956) lost her chances of education. She worked as a newspaper seller, factory worker and telephonist. Between 1979 and 2000 she worked as a journalist for national newspapers. The 1980-84 crisis woke her interest in economy and she graduated in Economics at Amsterdam University in 1995. Van de Ven has been writing and painting all her life, "to find happiness and equilibrium". In 2000 she quit her work to devote all her time to writing and painting. She started out with water colour, linocut and etching ground on glass, and switched to digital painting in 2005. Van de Ven exhibited digital work in Budapest, Milan, New York and Amsterdam. Her paintings are included in several private collections and the Literary Museum (Letterkundig Museum) in The Hague. Transience is a recurring theme. She won a third prize in MOCA's digital painting contest in 2014 and an honorable mention in 2015. She writes a high ranking blog on digital painting and is one of Wikipedia's main contributors on the subject.
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