Roxy van Bemmel (1993) is a visual artist from Utrecht, the Netherlands. After graduating as a fashion designer (ArtEZ ’17) and working as a fashion illustrator (winner FIDA ’20, exhibition at Amsterdam Fashion Week) she decided to focus completely on her personal work - creating large scale oil paintings of herself. 

“ When I was younger I’ve often felt invisible, and that is why I now create paintings so large that you can't ignore them. I want a younger Roxy to look at my work and think: look, she can do it too, so I dare to be like that as well. I never want to feel small again. As my mom always tells me ‘you can do anything you want’.

I spend weeks, sometimes even months, on a painting, making time a significant factor. I can be very hard on myself as both a person and an artist, but because I look at a piece for so long, I start seeing the characters I paint as separate from myself. Through my work, I show myself softness. "