
Bert Holländer was born in the Flemish region of Belgium. She qualified as a teacher at the Ecole Normale pour Instituteurs de Bruxelles and in Fine Arts at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts d'Anvers, where she specialised in Painting, Drawing and Ceramics.

Merlyn Chesterman was born in London and grew up in Hong Kong. After a BA in Fine Art (Painting) she later took a diploma in education. Her printmaking business Hartland Printmakers was set up in 2002.
Born in England into a creative family, Jennifer Copley-May has been passionate about all forms of art since early childhood. As an adult she studied botanic illustration and continued to develop her artistic talents in several other areas: portraiture, landscapes, animal portraits and more recently, abstracts, graphics and illustrative work.