Ruth van Royen (1959) lives and works in Warffum, near the Groningen Wadden Sea coast. "Sometimes you find a new love through your work. That's how I found birds through painting. I bought a bird guide because I wanted to know what kind of bird my dead model was. Now I have a binoculars in each room, a guide full of notes and a freezer full of 'models'." (http://www.hoogvliegersvanhetlaagland.nl/ruth-van-royen/) Ruth van Royen studied at the ABK Minerva in Groningen from 1983 to 1988. She lives and works in Warffum. I paint mostly still lifes and also self portraits. As a little child, I was already fascinated by 'The Things': I picked up any bus ticket, matchbox or wad of paper from the street. I also filled one - rather small - sketchbook after another with drawings, including self portraits in pencil, felt pen or Wasco. By the time I was 16, I was painting with real oil paints; I took on the big picture and depicted the cosmos: planets connected by a spider web in which God would be located. " When it was time to choose a profession, I tried to become a librarian, philosopher and mechanic in succession, but fortunately, a person does not escape his destination. At the art academy, under the inspiring influence of Mathijs Röling and Diederik Kraaijpoel, I rediscovered the world of Things. At first, that world was quite full: "The more objects on the canvas, the better the painter," I thought. Over the years, I've been following my heart more and Wonder and Astonishment have led me to odes on Simplicity. I regularly return to postage stamp size, which is particularly suitable for an icon of the small, the humble and the ephemeral that I still find on the street: the microcosm." Ruth van Royen's work is in collections of private collectors at home and abroad. (Google translation of http://www.hoogvliegersvanhetlaagland.nl/ruth-van-royen/) undefined

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