Hi, I'm Roozeboos! Or Anne Roos Kleiss as you might know me in daily life. I try to look at the world with a childlike curiosity. Something that is reflected in my artist name, which was my nickname as a kid. My work is playful, filled with color and tells stories even through its smallest details. I love to capture what I see around me in my sketchbook and this brings me inspiration from unexpected places. Diversity, nature, traveling, emotions and community are themes that can often be found in my drawings.
I mostly work on books, children's theatre, editorial illustrations, spatial designs, workshops or commercial projects, and I love live drawing at events.
But I'm also open to think together about any other idea you might have! You can email me at annerooskleiss@gmail.com.
Picture by Conform Cox
In 2017 I graduated from a Bachelor in Illustration at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and in February 2020 I finished an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. I have an atelier in the Keilewerf in Rotterdam, a wonderful place with lots of different artists.
Clients include: The AOI, HP, Scholastic, Rotterdampas, Querido, VOLT, Children's Museum Villa Zebra, Oerol Festival,
Der Passagier Magazine, Blossom Books, Cicada Books, Groundwood Books, Pelckmans, Luitingh Sijthoff, Highlight Children's Magazine, Stichting Cultuur & School Utrecht
NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Shortlist
AOI World Illustration Awards 2026
Category: Exploration
Shortlist
iJungle Illustration Awards 2026
Shortlist
AOI World Illustration Awards 2024
Category: Publishing
Finalist
Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition 2023
Longlist
BOIT International Illustration Contest 2023
Winner
From Seed to Table competition 2020
Picture Hooks
Nomination
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2023
Shortlist
Klaus Flugge Prize 2022
Finalist
Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition 2021
Higly Commended
MacMillan Prize for IIllustration 2021
Shortlist
AOI World Illustration Awards 2020
Category: Alternative Publishing
Second Prize
Templar Illustration and Design Awards 2020
Category: Fiction
Second Prize
Design a Book Jacket Competition 2020
Stratford Literary Festival
Selected for the Illustrators Exhibition 2020
Bologna Children's Book Fair
Highly Commended
AOI World Illustration Awards 2019
Category: Experimental
TEACHING AND WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
Workshop and book readings via Schrijverscentrale
Libraries and schools all over the Netherlands
2023-ongoing
Guest lecturer
Willem de Kooning, Illustration department
2020, 2021
Guest lecturer
ArtEZ, Illustration department
2022
Leading various art and printmaking workshops for children
Kinderatelier Punt 5,
2023 - 2025
Workshop 'Jezelf als kinderboeken personage'
Eiland atelier, Buitenplaats Brienenoord Rotterdam
2022
Leading various art workshops for children
Refugee Centre Rijswijk, Stichting de Vrolijkheid
2020 - 2021
Leading workshops at primary schools
SKVR & Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam
2021 - 2023
Workshop Character Design
International School The Hague & Haags Montessori Lyceum
2021, 2023
Lecturer on Children's illustration
Thomas More Hogeschool, Rotterdam
2017
SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS
Het leven van een eendagsvlieg, Het Klokkenhuis
De Vrijstaat, Utrecht, 2026
Muren vol Avonturen,
Galerie Westerkadekunst, Rotterdam, 2025
Rotterdam Illustrators
DUDOK, Rotterdam, 2025
The Original Art Exhibition
Museum of Illustration, New York, 2023
Journey from the Heart, Illustrators around the world,
Ministry of Culture, Taichung, 2023
Wonderlijk Delfshaven Festival,
Rotterdam, 2023
Greener Rotterdam,
Rotterdam Central Station, 2023
Now and Then, Illustrators around the world,
Ministry of Culture, Taichung, 2022
Picturehooks Festival of Illustration
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 2021
The Illustrator's Exhibition, Bologna Book Fair,
Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, China, Taiwan
2020 - 2022
MA Children's Book Illustration Degree Show
Candid Arts Trust, London, 2020
AOI World Illustration Awards
Somerset House, London, 2019
De Toekomstkalender
Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, 2019
Solo Expo Tijdduizelen
Duizel in het Park, Rotterdam, 2018
Oerol
Terschelling, 2018
Cross Comix
Schouwburg Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2017
Graduation Show
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam ,2017
BoekieBoekie Start Award
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, 2017
EDUCATION
Master Children's Book Illustration
Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge
2018 - 2020
Bachelor Illustration
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
2013 - 2017
Preporatory course Art & Design
ArtEZ, Arnhem 2012 - 2013
