Rozy, a women living life unapologetically!
Female friendships have shaped her art by featuring her ambitious, beautiful friends who inspire her every day. Her work celebrates the joys and confidence of being a woman. She lives in Den Haag.
What is your work about and what inspires you?
If I would describe my work shortly, I would say that it’s a feminine world of delight and glamour, where I highlight female characters having fun and indulging in life’s little pleasures. I’m very inspired by strong, eccentric women that live life on their terms. I take the qualities that I admire in women and express them through a whimsical fantasy world. I’m also very passionate about fashion, so I mix that in too.
How have female friendships influenced your work / how does it inspire you?
My friends are all beautiful, ambitious women that I respect and value a lot. Since my work is so female centric, I get inspired by them too and I sometimes draw them in my world too.
Why do you think a platform like After5 is needed now for ambitious women.
After finishing school, it becomes more difficult to meet new people in general. And even though social media was made to connect people, I feel like it’s become harder to meet others in real life. A platform like After5 offers women an opportunity to meet like minded women that they perhaps would not meet easily somewhere else. As we age and evolve, we also might experience the need to meet new women that are like-minded and After5 takes away a lot of barriers.