Roos Van Der Vliet

Roos (b. 1985) is a Dutch painter based in Duiven, The Netherlands. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009, she developed a practice grounded in technical precision and sustained attention.

Working in a highly controlled, realistic manner, Roos approaches painting not as an act of representation but as an investigation into presence. Her portraits inhabit a suspended psychological space, moments in which time appears to slow and the subject withdraws from performance. The surface may appear resolved, yet beneath it lies a tension between visibility and interiority.

Through meticulous rendering, she examines stillness as an active state rather than a passive one. The paintings invite a heightened awareness of looking itself, of the fragile exchange between viewer and subject, where silence becomes charged and intimate.

Roos exhibits internationally, with solo exhibitions in Europe, Australia, and the United States.

2009 BFA, Artez Arnhem