Artist statement
Concepts
Be Van Der Heide works mostly in series. The images shown are examples of six different series. She travels (sometimes just to the local park) - looks - sketches and uses these images to paint mostly large work in her studio. Sometimes it is the landscape itself that inspires her, but mostly that which has been put in it by men. The "Owoos" where found in the grasslands of Outer Mongolia, the Tunnels where passed through on the way from Nice, to Genoa along the Mediterranean coast. The Lycian tombs series was conceived after a trip to the south coast of Turkey. The Insects series is totally based on mostly dried up found insects lying about. Several more recent series include Enfant Terrible, My Real Family and Dance of the transient forms
Influences
Dutch - female - painting drawing
Career path
Qualifications:
1960 Academy for Fine Arts (AKI)
1956 Lyce Zutphen, The Netherlands
Teaching Experience
1995/6 Continuing education programme, Montreal, Canada
1979 Taught at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Areas of work
Exhibiting
Private commissions
Public art
Workshops
Collections
Residence of the Dutch Ambassador, London
The Art Bank of the Canada Council
The National Film Board of Canada
Sir Anthony Caro Collection London
Lionel Phillips Collection Somerset
Nortel Ltd, Munich, Germany
Nortel Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
Musee dArt de Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 "Fire and Smoke", Gallery Mas Poch, Vilaritg, 17741, Cistella(Gi), Spain
- 2010 Work from this summer, Gallery Mas Poch, Vilaritg, 17741, Cistella(Gi), Spain
- 2008 Collapse, Gallery Mas Poch, Vilaritg, 17741, Cistella(Gi), Spain
- 2007 Summer 2007 work, Gallery Mas Poch, Vilaritg, Girona, Spain
- 2006 My 'Real Family', Tipperary Arts Center, Clonmel, Ireland
- 2004 Enfant terrible 2, Consell Comarcal de l'Alt Emporda, Figueres Spain
- 2004 "Enfant Terrible 2", Porfin gallery, Enschede, The Netherlands
- 1998 Insects, Morley Gallery, London
- 1994 Chancery Gallery, Royal Netherlands Embassy, London
- 1993 Powell Moya Partnership, architects, London
- 1992 Bruton Street Gallery, London
- 1991 Pitminster Studio, Taunton, Somerset
- 1989 Galerie Bievliet, Amsterdam, Holland
- 1988 Endell Street Gallery, London
- 1987 The Showroom, London
- 1984 Meditation on Knitting, Centennial Gallery, Oakville, Canada
- 1980 Pink Chain Letter, Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Berry Street reunion, "Mas Poch" gallery, Vilaritg 17741 Cistella(Gi) Spain
- 2011 Park Studios Open, Park Studios, London N4 2LT
- 2010 400 women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London,England
- 2009 small works, Madre Mania, Catalunia Spain
- 2008 Bang, Mas Poch gallery, Vilaritg 17741 Cistella(Gi) Spain
- 2008 Walls, Walls Gallery, Highbury, London
- 2008 Park Studios open, Park studios, London N4 2LT
- 2006 Park Studios Open, Park Studios, London N4 2LT
- 2006 Outer Mongolian Artists Association, Ulaan Bataar, Outer Mongolia
- 2006 "Convoi Exceptionel", Maria Chailloux Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2004 Collection Lionel Phillips, Somerset gallery, Somerset England
- 2004 Park Studios Open, Park studios, London N4 2LT
- 2003 1001 Reasons to love the Earth, Seoul, North Korea
- 2002 Park Studios Open, Park studios, London,England
- 2001 Who we are now, self portraits by founding members of Canada's first women's gallery, McClure Gallery, Montreal
- 2001 The past to the present, La centrale (Powerhouse Gallery), Montreal, Canada
- 2000 Art in Direct Gallerie de Arte Zero, Barcelona Spain
- 1999 Mixed Messages, Park Studio Artists, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London
- 1998 Contemporary Art and the Media, A and C Gallery, London
- 1998 Temps Compose de la Donation Forget, Musee d'Art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada
- 1998 Megalamedia show with Artist Network
- 1997 The Open Drawing Show, Cheltenham, England
- 1997 Chancery Gallery, Royal Netherlands Embassy, London
- 1996 Twelth Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, England
- 1994 Paul Diemel Collection, Enschede, Holland
- 1993 Women of Europe, London Architectural Society
- 1993 'East', Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich
- 1993 Aspects of Abstraction, Bruton Street Gallery, London
- 1992 Contemporary Art Fair, Bruton Street Gallery, London
- 1991 Under the Eye of Saturn, Third Mostyn Open Exhibition, Llandudno, Wales
Public commissions
- 1967 Nail Mural, Dutch Pavillion at the World Expo, Montreal, Canada
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