Ellen Valk van de Ven (Den Bosch, 1967)

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Lives and works in her studio next to her home address, in St. Michielsgestel, NB

 

2 works included in the online exhibition of The Almenara Art Prize 2025 in the Portrait and Figurative category.

 

Finalist Elise Mathilde Portrait Prize 2025.

Two of her 3 submitted works have been acquired by the Elise Mathilde Fund.

 

Nominated for Dutch Portrait Prize 2025

 

Affiliated with the artist collective Exit Art Amsterdam

 

Admitted to Masters of Realism

 

Finalist FIKVA miniARTures 2024

 

Nominated for Painting of the Year 2023, third place

 

Nominated for Dutch Portrait Prize 2023

 

Nominated for Painting of the Year 2022

 

2023 Academy of Fine Arts Arendonk + specialization completed

 

2001-2013 living in southern Spain

 

Graduated from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Communications

 

Exhibition overview