Who am I?
My name is Benjamin Aeilkema and I’m an illustrator, artist and art teacher from The Netherlands.
I love creating artworks with traditional media and with digital media as well. My favorites are ink, fineliners, watercolor and watercolor pencils, but I am in no way limited to those.
My favorite themes are houses, landscapes and animals, but I like other themes like fantasy and sci-fi and many others as well.
My artworks are often fun, sometimes serious or with a deeper meaning. At times my love for God is also expressed in and through art.
What I do
For many years I’ve enjoyed creating art, learning many skills and techniques along the way. I often have a personal way of applying these techniques to my artworks.
At the end of 2024 I started on a new art journey, trying to take my art to a whole new level. It was a challenging journey with ups and downs and some radical changes in how I approach my own art.
While I don’t think I’ve reached the end of this journey, I feel confident enough about my new approach to start working on new pieces of art and sharing them on my website… and offering them to the public.