Brita Bakema grew up amidst architects and visual artists. She herself took painting lessons from Karel Appel in Paris and Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg and developed a colourful abstract-figurative style, full of symbolism. Brita trained as a graphic designer at the London School of Printing & Graphic Arts.
In recent years Brita has started to combine her visual work with writing and this is reflected in her new book 'Brita Bakema - Impressies van een levensreis’ (Brita Bakema - Impressions of a journey through life). She empathically illuminates events from world history and from her own life. The book has become a reflection on a life journey, where she painted and designed along the way. Her journey took her from Rotterdam, which was bombed in 1940, past London and Paris to Hamburg. In 1973 Brita returned to the Netherlands.
