Maaike Canne is a Rotterdam-based illustrator and visual artist whose vibrant, colour-driven compositions reimagine everyday spaces with a cinematic stillness. Inspired by modernist architecture, interior design, and the natural world, her work explores the interplay between inside and outside. Rooms that open onto landscapes, structures that merge with their surroundings, striking a balance between graphic boldness and a quiet, almost nostalgic warmth.
Her scenes often feel like the moment just after someone has left the frame. That deliberate absence gives the work its pull: spaces rich with suggestion, inviting the viewer to step in and complete the story.
She works across digital illustration, gouache, oil painting and large-scale murals, moving fluently between editorial commissions, packaging and brand campaigns.
Represented by Agent Pekka
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Clients include
Google, The New Yorker, Apple, Pinterest, Dropbox, Architectural Digest, Elle Decoration, Lexus, VPRO, Ace & Tate, Financial Times, Newsweek, De Volkskrant, The Architectural Review, Mutina, Die Zeit, The Atlantic, Tiptoe Design, VARAgids, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Tylko and more.
Her scenes often feel like the moment just after someone has left the frame. That deliberate absence gives the work its pull: spaces rich with suggestion, inviting the viewer to step in and complete the story.
She works across digital illustration, gouache, oil painting and large-scale murals, moving fluently between editorial commissions, packaging and brand campaigns.
Represented by Agent Pekka
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For personal projects, collaborations & editorial commissions
maaike.e.canne@gmail.com
For commercial brand campaigns & advertising
pekka@agentpekka.com
Clients include
Google, The New Yorker, Apple, Pinterest, Dropbox, Architectural Digest, Elle Decoration, Lexus, VPRO, Ace & Tate, Financial Times, Newsweek, De Volkskrant, The Architectural Review, Mutina, Die Zeit, The Atlantic, Tiptoe Design, VARAgids, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Tylko and more.
Selected Press
It’s Nice That
Jelly Agency Interview
Sircle Collection
Teufel Audio (NL)
Wrap Magazine
It’s Nice That
Wrap Magazine
It’s Nice That
It’s Nice That
Selected Exhibitions
It’s Nice That
Jelly Agency Interview
Sircle Collection
Teufel Audio (NL)
Wrap Magazine
It’s Nice That
Wrap Magazine
It’s Nice That
It’s Nice That