VERONICA was born in Holland and spent her childhood with her parents and sisters in an old Dutch farmhouse surrounded by cornfields, rivers, and medieval towns. As a child she already liked drawing little scenes and continues to do to this day.
When art classes were skipped at Highschool, she started attending evening art classes together with her mum. After high school she studied art and drawing in Chicago in the USA and then spent a year in Australia, where she met her husband, started a family and settled in Montville. However, she returned to Europe and worked in Berlin, Rotterdam and in her Dutch hometown Eefde.
During this time, she had numerous exhibitions and was teaching drawing, illustration, and graphic work.
“Drawing gives me freedom to express my imagination and what I see around me. When I work on commissions, I like to visualise and put on paper the assignments given to me,” Veronica shared.
The artist uses graphite and colour pencils, sometimes pastel crayons, on different types of drawing paper. To get the drawings ready for print she enhances them on her computer with simple editing tools.
The drawings are then printed professionally, on high quality paper and are finished with some final touches by hand. With many moves and changes in her life the constant factor has been her pleasure in drawing and her works; you can see people, animals and other characters doing their thing while out and about.
More examples of her work can be seen on her Instagram account
@hooyslittledrawings or her website www.hooywerk.com.
Veronica will be holding an exhibition at Vianta Arts 70 Simpson Street in Beerwah titled ‘Out and About’ from September 25 – November 27 with an official opening on October 1 at 4pm.
