Gerard van Rooy - very nice and large -1973- relief etching "three feathers" small edition (40) -

• Gerard van Rooy (1938-2006)
• Born: Maartensdijk
• Education: Self-taught
• The graphic artist Gerard van Rooy (1939-2006) lived and worked in Utrecht his entire life. In the sixties Gerard van Rooy was admitted to the Utrecht Graphic Society De Luis and played a prominent role in it. With De Luis he had many exhibitions at home and abroad for fifteen years. Van Rooy was a teacher of Graphic Subjects at the Utrecht Academy Artibus from 1968 to 1972. From the mid-seventies Gerard van Rooy increasingly exhibited his work alone, or together with a fellow artist chosen by him for the occasion.
• Between the late eighties and mid nineties he made a foray into ceramics.

Van Rooy is widely praised for his high technical perfection. He often combines different techniques on one plate. In the last thirty years of his life he mainly uses a modest and poetic style. The objects on these prints are simple: a shell, a dead animal, a brush, a rope, a feather, toys. The objects often get an abstract meaning on the prints. Van Rooy speaks of "a reflection of my inner world".
In 2007, the beautiful monograph Gerard van Rooy, Etcher was published, containing an extensive catalogue of his oeuvre. The Centraal Museum organised a survey exhibition on this occasion.
Van Rooy's graphic oeuvre consists of more than 300 prints. In addition, there are an estimated two hundred ceramic works, which were partly made by Van Rooy in co-production with artist Gert de Rijk. Work by Gerard de Rooy is included in the collection of the Centraal Museum.