{"id":1105,"date":"2018-02-01T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&p=1105"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:17:06","slug":"1105","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/1105\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget van Roosendaal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridget van Roosendaal (1950-2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bridget moved from Liverpool to the Netherlands when she was 3 years old. She made her first drawings in elementary school. By the time she was 12 she got a 9,5 mark for drawing. Truly fascinated by line patterns, she continued to draw and practice after finishing school.<\/p>\n

When she was 16 years old Bridget went to Art School to study fashion. Having completed the first year, she moved to Amsterdam and took private art lessons. It was at this point that things started to go wrong for Bridget. She found her mental state deteriorating, and then suffered a psychosis which required psychiatric treatment. She had little energy left for being creative and stopped drawing during this period. Gradually, and with the right medication Bridget\u2019s situation improved and so did her ability to draw.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, Bridget used a select group of objects as subjects for her drawings. As she developed she started to draw on her imagination as the source of her inspiration and her subjects varied accordingly: portraits, flowers, gardens, houses, vases and religious images. Her compositions fill the whole page and seem to continue beyond its edge. Her style could be described as na\u00efve and intuitive.<\/p>\n

Bridget found the work she produced after her illness was a lot better. Her technique had improved and furthermore she enjoyed drawing even more than before because it helped to her “empty her head”. Bridget worked in Atelier Herenplaats since June 2008.<\/p>\n

“I love working here. People are kind and I may draw all day long”.
\nBridget died on 4 oktober 2013<\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Work included\u00a0for the collection of Atelier Herenplaats<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Exhibition\u00a0“Gek op Tekenen” (crazy about drawing)\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Exhibition “Outsider Art”, Gallery De Compagnie,\u00a0Dordrecht<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Exhibition 6-art-siders, Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 INSITA Triannal of Self-taught Art, Exhibition\u00a0in the Slovak\u00a0NationalGallery in Bratislava, Slovak Republic<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 “Outsider Art Fair”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 Outsider Kunst Dagen in Haarlem<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 “Outsider Art Fair” New York,\u00a0USA<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 Outsider Art exhibition, Wijk bij Duurstede\u00a0Museum collections<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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