Martine Johanna has been one of my favorite illustrators for quite a while.  Her work consists of fine lined drawings to hyper bizarre dream-like paintings with influences bleeding out of the images from high fashion to the occult...

Martine Johanna is a Dutch born and raised artist, right from the green heart of the Netherlands, now living and working in Amsterdam. From a young age music, high fashion, folk culture, nature, odd movies and storytelling where and are still major influences in her life. After a career as a fashion designer, mid 2008 her direction turned entirely towards painting and drawing...

Check out these beautifully drawn seductive women from the hand of Martine Johanna. Martine is a Dutch born and raised artist, right from the green heart of the Netherlands, now living and working in Amsterdam. Most of her works are built up from a mixture of materials-- water-based oil paint, graphite, ink on wood or canvas, but sometimes paper & pencil is just enough to bring her playful ideas to life.  

'I grew up in a small village, dreaming of other realities than mine, my fantasy rescued me then. Since I slowly found my way back to my pencils, I again get lost in this other reality. When I draw or paint, the world becomes translucent and fluid. Like the tale of Alice, but I am not a lost girl, I am the dark wanderer over rooftops, sliding into your dreams' -Martine Johanna

We simply adore Dutch illustrator Martine Johanna's grotesque yet sensual graphite drawings, and are always pleased to find when she has posted her newest luminous work.

Martine Johanna is a Dutch contemporary artist living and working in Amsterdam. For her illustrations Johanna works with plain graphite and paper, allowing the personas and landscapes of her work to spontaneously come into being, a hypnotic process that gives her an active creative outlet for releasing her thoughts and emotions.

Floating between contemporary illustration, art nouveau and Victorian lowbrow, Martine Johanna is aiming for an artisan craftsmanship that reflects her individual handwriting and personality. The beauty of plain graphite, paper and an emotional breath is sometimes all it needs to make it work. Creating a unlikely universe in the shape of sometimes dark feminine fairy tales, where a deep bond with her inner world comes to life.