Jannie Regnerus is a writer and a visual artist. She was born in Oudebildtzijl, the Netherlands, and lives and works in Haarlem. She studied at the Kunstacademie in Maastricht and participated at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten between 1995-96. Between 2000 and 2001 she did a residency at the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan. Her novels De ent, Het lam and Nachtschrijver have been critically acclaimed. Het lam was on the longlist of the Libris Literatuur Prijs. Her latest publication is Het wolkenpaviljoen (2020) was also long-listed. As a painter and photographer, she has participated in many group exhibitions across Europe and Japan.
Both as an artist and a writer, Jannie Regnerus is a minimalist and very precise in her vocabulary. In both literature and painting, Regnerus works with the concentration and precision of a Japanese calligrapher, whose brushstrokes are to be placed at the right spot on the paper. Likewise, her paintings possess an instinctive accuracy that display a meticulous artistic process directed to the representation of personal evocations. Nevertheless, there is not a desire to represent a landscape in its objective exactitude, but rather to conjure it through colour and light. In them we also find a sense of rhythm, a pulsation of the brush to keep their infinitude, their horizon ongoing.