Maja van Berkestijn

Maja van Berkestijn has a unique style to let sculptures speak. Expressions, movements and behaviors of humans usually form her motivation to make a sculpture. A true virtuoso, with an apparently great ease she models her sculptures in rough expressive lines and surfaces.

Maja van Berkestijn is no sculptresses of details, but loves expressive gestures. Her expressive sculptures therefore have a very sketchy character. Her models are as an all saying surefire impression of a very well determined moment. Human figures that touch and move because she knows how tor reveil their character. The bronze characters of Maja van Berkestijn feel naturally, good and familiar, as if they have always been there.

Maja van Berkestijn was trained at the Classical Academy in Groningen, The Netherlands.