Martha Boers (nee Reitsma) came to Canada at age 5, when her family immigrated from the Netherlands. Even as a child, she always had an overwhelming need to create, and an insatiable curiosity about the world around her. At the age of three, Martha learned to knit and sew, and each birthday and Christmas brought gifts of new exciting art and craft supplies. Over the years, she became proficient in many skills, although it was difficult to focus on any one thing in particular - everything was so interesting and exciting! She could draw, and paint, knit and sew, weave and sculpt. She loved paper mache and puppets, but in the end it was dolls that won her heart. Making those small lifelike figures required every art and craft skill she had ever learned - finally a way to put them all together for a single purpose!

In the early 1980's Martha developed a popular line of cloth collector dolls. In the late 80's, in an attempt to find a way to make a more "realistic adult" figure for her ever more elaborate costumes, Martha began experimenting with polymer clay. Her youngest sister, Marianne, took an interest and soon showed an amazing skill in sculpting wonderfully realistic figures. The doll making team of Martha and Marianne was born, and their dolls went on to International acclaim, winning many awards, and appearing in many books and magazines.

Martha and Marianne no longer make dolls together, having moved on to new creative endeavors. Martha is presently re-inventing herself as a doll artist and is experimenting with a wide variety of media, and through her photography she has also found a great new artistic freedom in expressing her love for flowers, nature and the world around her.