Background
Born in Rotterdam to Sjoerd and Marianne van Leeuwen, Van Leeuwen grew up in Mijnsheerenland. Her father ran a timber trading company in Overschie, and her uncle is the photographer Piet van Leeuwen (born 1942).
Born in Rotterdam to Sjoerd and Marianne van Leeuwen, Van Leeuwen grew up in Mijnsheerenland. Her father ran a timber trading company in Overschie, and her uncle is the photographer Piet van Leeuwen (born 1942).
She studied handicrafts and textile art at the teacher education in Delft from 1984 to 1989, and ceramic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1989 to 1993 under January van der Vaart, and Henk Trumpie.
After graduation she settled in Amsterdam as independent artist and started her own studio. She received a number of grants from the Mondriaan Fonds, Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts. Since 1997 she is also working as teacher ceramics and drawing at various courses.
Work of Van Leeuwen is present in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Princessehof Ceramics Museum.
