Jacquie Maria Wessels

Jacquie Maria Wessels started her photographic career in 1981 in Brussels where she worked for two years as an assistant at a renowned photo studio. After Brussels, Wessels moved to Amsterdam where she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam between 1985 and 1990 in the photography and drawing department. During her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Wessels did an exchange program at the Quicksilver Place Academy of Arts in London, focused on painting/drawing. Eventually photography proved to be the best medium for Wessels to express her ideas, nevertheless her photographs have often a painterly beauty.