Margreet Dietz was born in the Netherlands in 1970.She is the author of four non-fiction books, A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km, Running Shoes Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon and A Work in Progress: Exercises in Writing; a book of poetry, Sunshine on a wooden floor; and a novel, From my Mother.
Margreet began painting in February 2005 when she spent four months in New Zealand to prepare for and race Ironman New Zealand, before hiking around the South Island for two months.
Her work is in private collections across Australia, as well as in Dubai, Paris and Singapore.
Her favourite painters include Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning.
In 2009 she was a member and director of VISUALS, the Squamish Valley Artists society, coordinating the group's two Art at the Market shows and writing articles about the group's members for publications in the Sea to Sky area.
She was a member of the West Vancouver Community Arts Council in 2010/2011.
