Renée Spierdijk
Born in Amsterdam in 1957, Renée came to England in 1977 to study drawing and painting at the Camden Institute in London under Richard Cook. After further study at The Byam Shaw School of Art where she gained an L.D.A.D. and B.S.Dip. Hons. she completed the first year of an MA at Goldsmith's College in 1987. Since 1986 she has lectured and taught first at Byam Shaw and then mainly in schools and colleges around Cambridge where she now lives. In 1996 she was appointed Joint Head of Art at Kings College School, Cambridge.