NAME: Iris Van Diessen
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BIRTH DATE: 4.23.76
BIOGRAPHY
My name is Iris, as in the Greek rainbow goddess, what a suitable name my parents gave me, little did they know..... Of all the colours in the rainbow,I think I must have used them all.
Iris as in apple of your eye, eyes are indispensible for a painter. Strangely enough, my creatures are often lacking eyes or irisses. Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to go blind. That fear is obviously present in the faces of the beings I paint. The same goes for my fascination with disfigurements and deformities. And disasters, both great and small, of which I've had my share through the years.
