Wieteke Oosterhaven was born in 1972 in the small town of Bennekom , which is located near the German border in Holland . She grew up as the only daughter of a family of four, and with her older brother were the only children of Arno and Eveline Oosterhaven-Rappard.

Her mother, a well know artist in Holland, created many Bronze Statues which she showed both in Exhibitions in France & Holland, no doubt Wieteke inherited her mothers artistic talent.

After having obtained a university Degree in Marketing she decided to Move to the South of France were she spent the next 11years, establishing a Property Management Company before moving to Spain in the year 2004.

Once in Spain , she continued with her established business in France and set up a parallel operation in Javea Spain providing Management and Rental services to the property market here in the Costa Blanca.

Having been an animal lover for all of her life she soon came into contact with APASA ( Asociacion Potectora de Animales de San Antonio ) an organization based in Javea and formed to protect Animals within the area.

Wieteke now devotes many hours as an enthusiastic volunteer to the Dog Pound, looking after their welfare whenever she can, and has now committed herself to raising thousands of euro to construct new Kennels for the several hundred dogs held in the establishment by way of her Drawings & Paintings.

It was only in 2007 that Wieteke decided to start painting and since then she has held her first exhibition in April of this year with others planned in the near future, all to raise money for the dogs who are the love of her life.