Jeannet Leendertse

Jeannet Leendertse is a Dutch-born designer and fibre artist who grew up on the coast of Zeeland and now works from Maine, on the Blue Hill Peninsula. She studied graphic design, completing her degree cum laude, and spent years in the Boston area as an award-winning book designer before turning her focus back to textiles: shibori pleating, hand-dyed silk and organza, and knitting.

Her work responds to the rugged Maine coast and its marine life, exploring the idea of belonging and of making a home in a new environment. She also forages rockweed seaweed, working with a material that sequesters carbon and protects a shoreline under rising sea levels, and describes a crafts person’s responsibility toward materials and what a creative process leaves behind.