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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 at
the artacademy in Prague (VSUP).
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 clients, 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 in several countries and is part of different collections, like the collection at the Latin American Art Museum in Miami. Barbara entered several auctions, for different purposes, like the Ronald Macdonald House, ROKPA and radio 3FM. From the money
collected from the sale of her painting at 3FM, families were reunited
in Congo.
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.
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| EXHIBITIONS
in the past & more: |
-From the 2th of October, till 25th of December: exhibition in Staal, Rotterdam (WTC), organised by Galery Relad'arte. 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
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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.
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Recording of TV WEST programm 'Het andere oog' about POPA, March 2006
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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.
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