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BIOGRAPHY

Isabel Ruys, 1957, The Netherlands

In her youth, Isabel already enjoyed experimenting with pieces of wood in imitation of her grandmother, who always had some wood chisels lying on her dinner table.

Pursuing her other interests, she became a pediatrician. While working in this beautiful medical profession, she was confronted with a lot of sorrow. For many years, sculpting and creating proved to be a perfect antidote. Starting in 1988, she attended sculpting education in The Hague, Amsterdam and Laren.

Since the beginning of this century Isabel has devoted all of her energy to sculpting. Her inspiration comes from the beauty of nature in all its aspects. She translates her inspiration into strong, often monumental sculptures.

Her favourite materials are alabaster, limewood and bronze. Wood and stone have already been in nature for such a long time which adds to the beauty of the sculptures made out of it.

It is like working together with nature. The grain of the wood emphasizes the form and design of the sculpture and the way it is sanded, makes it very tempting to touch the soft contours. The transparency of her recent thin alabaster sculptures adds to their liveliness.

Isabel currently works in her studio outside Amsterdam, surrounded by nature and farmland. She primarily creates following her own inspiration, but also frequently takes on commissions.

Her work can be found in private and corporate collections all over the Netherlands.

COLLECTION

Baby Wild Boar

Bronze | Length: 47 cm | Height: 26 cm
Alabaster | Height: 70 cm

Balanced

Alabaster | Height: 70 cm
Alabaster | Height: 78 cm

Beauty

Alabaster | Height: 78 cm
Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 49 cm

Fetus

Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 49 cm
Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm

Freedom

Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm
Limewood | Height: 64 cm

Girl

Limewood | Height: 64 cm
Limewood | Height: 90 cm

Greece

Limewood | Height: 90 cm
Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm

Helena

Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm
Limewood | Height: 58 cm

In love

Limewood | Height: 58 cm
Bronze | Length: 54 cm | Height: 26 cm

Otter

Bronze | Length: 54 cm | Height: 26 cm

Quietness

Limewood and Reed | Height: 72 cm
Expectation © Isabel Ruys

Expectation

Alabaster | Height: 33 cm
Bronze | Height: 58 cm

The Future is Green

Bronze | Height: 58 cm

True Match

Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 72 cm
Limewood | Height: 65 cm

Torso

Limewood | Height: 65 cm
Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm

Unity

Alabaster and Perspex | Height: 73 cm
MORE SCULPTURES

EXPOSITIONS

2022• Lille Art Up France
• Gallery art_020amsterdam
• Atelierroute Blaricum
• Affordable Art Fair Brussels
• Art in ‘t Spiegel Bussum
2021• Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
• Atelierroute Blaricum
2020• Atelierroute Blaricum
2019• Beyond the Surface
2018• Atelierroute Blaricum
• HazArt Art Foundation
2016• Exposition Beeld Ruys/Tuari Studio
2015• Atelierroute Blaricum
2014• Exposition Ruys/Tuari Studio/vd Lely
• Atelierroute Blaricum
2012• Exposition Zoelen
2010• Gallery Atelier Beeld The Hague
• Kruijthuis den Bosch
2009• Gallery Beetje Kunst Bilthoven
• Open Art Fair Utrecht
2008• Hidden Forces Bussum
• Gallery de Keyzer Amersfoort
2007• Bussum Cultureel
• Gallery Beetje Kunst Bilthoven
2006• Open for All Bussum
• Group exhibition Breukelen
• Summer exhibition 34
• Gallery Aelbrecht Rotterdam
2005• Gallery Aelbrecht Rotterdam
2004• Group exhibition Maastricht
• Out of the Blue Bussum
• Summer exhibition 32
• Gallery Aelbrecht Rotterdam
2003• Expositions Schilde
• Office Building PNO Hilversum
• Gallery Wiek XX Groningen
2002• City Hall Laren

CONTACT

isabelruys@gmail.com

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