The MARVELS book contains never-published-before artworks and sketches and over thirty-six photographs. The Ltd Edition comes in a Vegan Black Leather Clamshell box and the book has an Acrylic front and a Layflat binding. Her multi-award-winning body of work is brought to life in the course of two years from 2019 to 2020. This artistic series is showing the beauty and vulnerability of these beautiful buildings and animals, a way to awaken the compassion within, to give a voice to this earth’s inhabitants who have none, and for inspiring future generations to preserve their cultural heritage.
Detailed creatures of the natural realm paired with fantastical scenes of the imagination have created a signature style. An oeuvre that has become widely awarded and that can be found in esteemed private collections on a global scale.
Essentially, she creates imaginary worlds composed of photographed parts of nature and locations across the globe.
Her work can be summarized in three ways -
Authentic, Imaginative, and a longing for beauty.
Cheraine Collette born in the Netherlands in 1993, graduated in 2015 in Photographic Design at the Fotovakschool University of Applied Photography.
Awards Since 2019, in the course of 2 years, Cheraine Collette has won over one hundred prizes, consisting out of 1- overall winner, 8 -1st prizes, 4 – 2nd prizes, 2 – Platinum, 17 – Gold, 20 – Silver, 5 – Bronze, and 74 – honourable mention & Highly Commended in internationally acclaimed photography competitions such as the International Photography Awards (IPA), the Prix de la Photographie Paris(PX3), the Neutral Density Awards (ND), the Fine Art Photo Awards (FAPA), the International Muse Photography Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2020), the Pollux Awards, the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) and the Creative Siena Awards, and more. BOOKS- She published her first book with a multi-award-winning body of work in 2020. Like her work, her books have also won several international awards (Gold in IPA, PX3, TIFA, MIFA). She continues her practice currently in her studio in Otterlo, the Netherlands.
