NAME & COUNTRY:

PART OF COLLECTION:

Gallery Relad'arte
Kunstcentrum Haarlem.
Latin American Art Museum in Miami.
Member of: art-rent 'de Natte Wang'!

Barbara van Druten creates illustrative paintings, digital art & more.
After Barbara van Druten graduated at the Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht, the Netherlands (1999) in Visual Communication, she persued a specified study in illustration given by professor Salamoun, on the artacademy in Prague (VSUP) for several months.

After these educations she lived in London and Cambridge where she gained more experience in the field of illustrative painting.
Her work is surrealistic, naïve and contains a lot of fantasy. The digital illustrations are very mysterious, while the illustrative paintings are known for their bright colours.

Since than she has had exhibitions in London, Prague, Brussel, Miami, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Sevilla, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Milan, The Hague and Leiden.
She has had publications in different international magazines, newspapers, and on TV. Newspapers and magazines like for example, The Scotsman, the Elegance, the Haagsche Courant, Flair, Marie Claire etc.

Her work was published as bookcovers by the GLB-publisher. In September 2010 'My daddy lives in Africa', childrens' book, illustrated and written by Barbara, has been published by David&Goliat. She has done different assignments for companies like Jim Thompson' restaurants, the ING-bank, Damum UK, Amnesty International, Acacia Institute, BCN, Options International, but also people in general who gave her specific assignments for (personal) paintings, digital illustrations, websites, flyers, company-styles, painted furniture for children, birthcards etc.
Among other jobs, she has worked as a webdesigner at e-Vision and as an art director at PanelChannel.

Barbara was nominated as Flair-woman-of-the-year and won the Siemens Contest. Her work was sold allover the world and is part of different collections, like the collection at the Latin American Art Museum in Miami. Barbara entered an auction of radio 3FM, from the money collected from the sale of her painting, ±57 families were reunited in Congo. Several paintings were sold at different auctions, the amount has been donated to the Ronald Macdonald House and ROKPA.

Barbara was a member and initiator of POPA (www.popa.nl). POPA is an acronym for POsitive PAssion. POPA is an art-movement founded in Leiden, the Netherlands, the birthplace of the world-renowned Dutch artist Rembrandt. The vision behind this movement was that of three women; Barbara van Druten, Susana López and Soon Ja Terwee. Susana López passed away in March 2007.
POsitive PAssion otherwise known as POPA was a movement that wished to create positive feelings through an eclectic mix of creativity and art. The paintings seek portray acceptance of cultural, religious & ethnic diversity that exists in our world today. 10% sales price of their works of art was be donated to different organizations supporting children.

From 18 September till 25 December: exhibition in Staal, Rotterdam (WTC). Presenting: the childrens' book: 'My daddy lives in Africa' and an exhibition of the book-illustrations, paintings and digital illustrations.

-7th of March till the 9th of April 2010: exhibition in the Wellness & Racquet Club Westvliet. Westvlietweg 55, 2491 ED Den Haag. www.westvliet.nl
-August 9th 2009: Sidac Studio: Rijnwater
-July till March 2010: Rijnland Hospital Leiderdorp
-January 2008 TV WEST-ZAPP, programm about POPA
-October 2007 TV WEST-Het Andere Oog, programm about POPA
-Artroute 2007-22/23 September-atelier Langestraat 13 Leiden
- Exhibition in the Dutch Consulat and accompanying Gallery Bergamo, Milan, Italy, January-March 2007. Than a continuing exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden, for three months. - Exhibition 'art for kids' in library Utrecht, March 2007.
- Exhibition in Gallery 'de Pomp' in Warmond, 10th of December till January 2007.
- Exhibition in the Koningskerk in Voorburg, 26th of November till the 1st of December 2006.- Auction for the Ronald McDonald-house, together with artists like Clemens Briels etc. 'De Kinderboom', 60x80, acrylics and stamptechnics, donated and created especially for this great cause! The painting was sold for 1400 euro.
- Recording of TV WEST programm 'Het andere oog' about POPA, March 2006
- POPA-exhibition (see photo) in Atelier Artistiek, March-April 2006.
- Popa exhibition (Soon Ja, Barbara, Susana) in Kom&Ko, November 2005 till January 2006. See some photo's here!
-Action 'Serious Request' 2005, 3FM (radio) for Congo.
Painting was auctioned through e-bay in week 51 2005 (from the amount; 860 euro, 57 families in Congo were reunited!!!). A radio-interview took place on Friday 23th of December at 18.15 o'clock, 3FM. Barbara was nominated as Flair-woman-of-the-year 2005, Magazine Flair suggested to Barbara to create a painting especially for the above event. - Nominated as FLAIR-WOMAN OF THE YEAR! Have a look at the article here!
- Kunstroute 2005, location: RAP architectuurcentrum, Nieuwstraat 33, Leiden, 24 and 25 September 2005-October 2005!
-Sidac Studio: POPA&friends, Leiden, NL, 18 t/m 24 juli 2005.
-TNO, Leiden, NL, ±10 July-30th September.
-Exhibition combined with the wallpoems in Leiden, Barbara exhibits in shopwindows of Martin Ken Photography and Ratjetoe9, june 2005.
-Exhibition in Gallery ter Rozen, April/May 2005, Belgium.
-(Interview with Elegance!)
-Gezondheidscentrum Vondellaan, NL, January-April 2005.
-Fair of Contemporary Art in Sevilla, Spain, 13-17 January 2005.
-Latin American Art Museum, Miami, USA, 10-31 December 2004.
-Gallery Haagweg 4, Leiden, NL, Graphic work, 3 December '04-3 January '05.
-'Naast de Paap', Den Haag, NL, November-December 2004.
-Sidac Studio, Leiden, Nederland. 'Facials', 17/18/19 December 2004.
-MUPI-exhibition. Art of different artists spread through Leiden by MUPI's.
-ROKPA auction in Leids Volkshuis. The money of the paintings will be donated to an orphan-house in Kathmandu, Nepal, see this article.
-Gezondheidscentrum Leidschenveen (Den Haag), NL, September-December 2004.
-Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt, Germany, 6-10 October 2004.
-Company-party in The Mediapoort, Leiden, the Netherlands. Click link for information.
-Kunstroute 2004, Leiden NL, 28-29 September 2004.
-Gallery Sala Barna, (Grupo Batik Art) Barcelona, Spain, 13-29 September 2004.
(Several international publications will be there + radio-interview by COPE, also Dutch publications in Witte Weekblad and HET op zondag, small TV-announcement, Opinatio; Spanish news-online and again HET op zondag).
-De Kunstpoort, kunstuitleen en galerie (gallery/renting art), NL, PERMANENT LOCATION. Here you will always find art of Barbara van Druten.
-Public Library Leiden, NL, May 2004.
-Pieter de la Court house, Leiden, NL-December-April 2004.
(Two publications; Haagsche Courant and Leidsch Dagblad newspaper of The Hague and Leiden, February 2004).
-Cafe Vooraf en Toe, NL, October 2003
-De kunstroute 2003, Leiden, NL, September 2003.
-Het Volkshuis, Leiden, NL-September-October 2003.
-The V&D, Leiden, NL-August 2003.
-Comocomo, art-project, Brussels, Belgium, ±April-June 2003.
-Gallery Kunst&koffie, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2003.
(Also several other publications in newspapers and in for example 'De Flair'.)
-Digital Art exhibition at the Mediapoort Leiden, the Netherlands-year 2002.
(Two publications in the Nieuwsweek, newspaper in Leiden).
-De kunstroute 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands (+publication).
-De Kunstroute 2001 in Leiden, The Netherlands-September 2001.
-The Outrageous Art Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-April 2001.
(Publication of my work in newspaper 'the Scotsman' of April 2001).
-Taipan Tavern, in London, United Kingdom-November 2000.
-Wilbury in Cambridge, United Kingdom-from April till September 2000.
-ABK in Maastricht, the Netherlands-July 1999.
-VSUP in Prague, Czech Republic-March 1999.

EDUCATION
& QUALIFICATIONS:

Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht (ABKM) > 1994- 1999 NL.

• Visual Communication
• Graphic Design
• Typographic Design
• Illustrative Design
• Experimental Design
• Publicity

Graduated in 1999, with an 8!

*I entered an exchange program of three months to study at the artacademy of Prague, where I had the opportunity to work without any modern facilities like computers etc. I had classes of Professor Salamoun, who is a well-known and respected illustrator in the Czech Republic.

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