Dana Martens

Dana Martens (1983) grew up in Zonhoven, Belgium, in a beautiful wooded area that has inspired her illustrations. Her two aunts, both artists, instilled an artistic passion in Dana from a young age. After earning bachelor’s degrees in economics and bio-aesthetics, Dana became a schoolteacher. For 14 years, she combined this job with being a makeup artist instructor. When her friend Ilse De Keyzer told Dana that she was looking for an illustrator who could match the style of her story about the famous Loch Ness monster, the pair decided to travel to Scotland together. There, Dana managed to capture the incredible natural beauty through illustration.