Meet the Artist: Piet Mondrian

Step into the bold and geometric world of Piet Mondrian! This children’s art activity book is popping with wonderful activities and ideas for budding young artists. Join illustrator Marie Doerfler on an inspiring journey through the world of Piet Mondrian and make your own artworks along the way!

Get to know Mondrian’s grid and what it meant to him through finger painting, collage and symmetry. Get in touch with nature on a journey across the flower markets of Amsterdam, design your own abstract magazine, choreograph a Mondrian inspired dance routine and make a DIY kaleidoscope!

The Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist’s life followed by a series of drawing-based activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in their work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making.

Marie Doerfler is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. She studied communication and graphic design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Falmouth University in the UK and then illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She currently lives and works in Regensburg and Vienna. In 2021 she received the World Illustration Award in the Advertising Young Talent category and was on the 2021 finalist shortlist for the Illustrators Exhibition in Bologna. Meet the Artist: Mondrian is her debut children’s activity book.