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Shantella
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Learn more about my art at https://shantelladevisser.wixsite.com/via-art
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This see through mirror is called ‘this person is not broken. You can see yourself, and if two people take place on each side of the mirror they can even see each other as well as themselves through the broken glass.
#art #mirror #selfreflection
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Pelican with marker and watercolour.
#bird #pelican #art #watercolour #marker
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The text is written in reverse, so you have to look in a mirror to read it; when you're standing with your back towards the portrait. my father and grandmother choose to migrate to the Netherlands and raise their children as Dutch as possible. Yet, it was never my choice to turn my back on my roots.
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Yesterday we created this giant 7 metres long dragon for Michaelmas with over 1100 middle and high school students. All of them made one of the scales from an empty milk carton and wrote down how they personally overcome their fears.
#art #michaelmas #waldorf #dragon
September 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Made this holographic video to honour my dad. It’s really easy. You need a plastic pyramid to place on your phone and video that is mirrored 4 times. Had so much fun making this.
#art #hologram
September 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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It was an amazing experience (specially for an art history teacher like myself) to learn to paint fresco like the old masters in the beautiful city of Florence.
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#art #traditionalart #collage
A collage on cartboard. In the center there is a fine lined dragonfly. Beneath it is a paper scrap with an Asian artwork on it. The piece also has black lines smudged over it and a bright pink circle made from pastel chalk .
September 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This piece was inspired by the creation of Adam of the great master Michelangelo Buonaroti. I’ve created a mosaic that depicts 500 different animals. This is my way to ask you the question what makes humans different from other animals.
#art #mosaic
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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what a beautiful light in the white church of Heiloo, during our exhibition this weekend😍.
#art #exhibition
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This weekend I have an exposition at the white church Heiloo with a couple of other artists.

#art #exposition #painting #kunst #expositie #schilderij
September 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Created a giant dragon for Michaelmas at the Waldorf high school I work at. In total it will be 6 meters long. I had a lot of fun with the head, especially the eyes. Its scales are made from empty milk cartons.
#art #michaelmas #waldorf #dragon
August 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Transfer on wood. Just having fun with art.
#art
August 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Mixed media self portrait. The images of the heron and keys tell the story better than I could with words.
#art #mixedmedia #portrait
August 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Just had to draw the beauty in these dead flowers.
#drawing #art #flowers
August 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Mixed media artwork for a lovely friend who recently got divorced. Spread your wings and fly!
#art #mixedmedia
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I love this linoleum print of my daughter and Ganache the donkey that escorted us on our 3 day hike trough the Pyrenees.
#printing #art
August 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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I always bring a pocket sized sketchbook and a fine liner to draw the things I see.
#drawing #sketchbook #art
August 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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I painted this for a friend who lives next to a nature reserve. The bittern is a mysterious bird, but unfortunately, it's on the red list in the Netherlands. I love its call. Acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm
#bittern #bird #painting #art
August 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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I love the little streets in Haarlem (Netherlands). This one is definitely one of my favorites. I drew it in my sketchbook while sitting on the sidewalk.
#drawing #sketchbook #art #Haarlem
August 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The mandarin duck came to the Netherlands as garden decoration for the rich. Some of them managed to escape. Do you think we should not move animals all across the world just for our pleasure?
100x100 acrylic on canvas
#duck #bird #painting #art
August 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The European Turtle Dove is a red list bird. Due to agricultural changes its population is declining. Acrylic on canvas 100x100 cm.
#painting #birds #art
August 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Uli was a rescued bear that found happiness after years of abuse. She inspired me to make this drawing.
#animals#drawing#art
August 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Painted this hornbill a while ago. Did you know that due to deforestation it gets harder and harder to find a tree to build a nest in. Hornbills choose the thicker trees, which are now very difficult to find.
August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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My two in one art piece of a mother’s love for her children. 90x130 cm, acrylic on wood.
August 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM