Editing Marjolein Bastin (section)

==Biography==
Bastin was born in [[Loenen aan de Vecht|Loenen (aan de Vecht)]] and studied at the Academy of Arts in [[Arnhem]], where she met her husband and manager Gaston Bastin. Her father was educator and photographer John Henri uit den Bogaard (1911-1993). They have a daughter, Sanna (born in 1973), and a son, Mischa (born in 1974). Sanna runs the "Marjolein Bastin Kadowinkel" (The Marjolein Bastin Giftshop) while Mischa is a lawyer in [[Kansas City]], USA. Marjolein and Gaston divide their time between country homes in the [[Netherlands]] and [[Missouri]], and a tropical retreat in the [[Cayman Islands]]. 

[[File:Borduurwerk-sophia-bakker-koolmeesjes-bastin-ca1985.jpg|right|thumb|Embroidery of great tits around a water bowl with black grapes in the background (made by S.C. Bakker, ca. 1989). Design by Marjolein Bastin.]]
From 1960 to 1965, Bastin worked for different advertising agencies and publishers. Shortly after completing her studies at the Academy of Arts, she was asked to illustrate a one-page feature for the popular Dutch women's weekly [[Libelle (Belgian magazine)|Libelle]]. A [[Hallmark Cards]] designer discovered Bastin's artwork while on a trip to the Netherlands in the early 1990s. Stationery, greeting cards, home décor items and gifts in Hallmark's ''Nature's Sketchbook by Marjolein Bastin'' line are among the company's best-selling offerings. Many of her drawings are available as cross-stitch patterns, through [[Lanarte]]. Heye Puzzles offer Bastin's work as [[jigsaw puzzle]]s.

In ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'' in 2003 she is quoted as saying, "I love the familiar and ordinary" and, "[t]he world that lies before us every day is just as beautiful as what's exotic and rare. Nature makes us all rich."<ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|220454092}} |title=Beauty in the Rough |journal=Good Housekeeping |volume=236 |issue=2 |year=2003 |pages=69–70 }}</ref>

In ''[[Country Living]]'' in 2004 her garden was described as combining both formal manicured lines (e.g. [[topiary]]) along with "wild and woolly habitats" to encourage visits from a variety of different animals.<ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|217112961}} |last1=Martin |first1=Tovah |title=Dutch Treat |journal=Country Living |volume=27 |issue=6 |year=2004 |pages=112, 115 }}</ref>