Marike Stokker, born in Sneek, (1950) was educated at the Graphic Design Department of the College of Art in Groningen (Minerva). Later on she went to the College of Art in Utrecht and specialized in Painting and Art History.
Since 1984 she works as a full time artist, has exhibitions in Holland and Belgium; she also made commissioned art for various companies.

It was in 2000 that she became interested and subsequently fascinated by the new technoligy and possibilities which the Internet provides and she participated in a number of courses aimed at obtaining the skills she needed to apply her artistic principles to web-design.
At the moment (2010) she takes care of all printables and websites of the Milieucentrum in Utrecht. The new website for the Milieucentrum is still in progress...
She worked as a Web Interface Editor for an IT company that went out of business February 2003. She made web interfaces and took care of the graphic design, which not only featured on the web, but also applied for company printing purposes. She worked with a team of programmers who did the technical details, concerned with the actual realization of the sites.
The rest of the time she worked (and still does) as a freelancer, building and designing websites, making illustrations and coverdesigns, and working in her studio as a fine arts painter.
She also teaches (part-time) at the College of Art in Utrecht.

Curriculum Vitae
Jan. 2010 course in making dynamic websites with Dreamweaver (PHP, MySQL and Ajax)
Jan. 2009 course in working with CSS
From July 2007 she works as a Graphic Designer and Webdesigner at the Milieucentrum Utrecht
June 2003 - June 2006: Cover and catalogue-design for Aspekt publishers. Working as a free lance Graphic Designer
Nov. 2001 - March 2003: Web Interface Editor and Graphic Designer at Man on the Roof, Woerden
March - June 2001: Apprenticeship Kita Culemborg, bureau for webdesign
Sept. 2000 - March 2001: Course of webdesign at Eduvision, Utrecht. Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Photoshop
Dec. 1999: Course of QuarkXPress at Computrain, Utrecht
From 1999: freelance teacher stillife and model, College of Art, Utrecht
1996 -2000: Freelance working for Dealta Vorm Groep, a bureau for environment design. At first making 'Artists Impressions' with traditional materials, later on using Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress
From 1984: Full time artist, exhibitions in Holland and Belgium, also making commissioned art for various companies
1979 - 1984: College of Art Utrecht. Painting and Art History department
1975 - 1979: Grammar School (Greek, Latin, Dutch, English, German and History)
1972 - 1982: Teaching art at several schools in The Hague
1971 - 1972: Akademia Sztuk Pienknich, Warsaw, department for Poster Design (lessons from Henryk Tomaszewski) and Animated Movies
1966 - 1971: College of Art Groningen, Graphic Design, Typography and Photography department
1950: Born in Sneek

Programs
Adobe CS4, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver , Fireworks (intermediate), Flash (intermediate)

Windows and Mac platform.