JENNY DE ROOY (The Hague, 1960), visual artist and cook. spent her entire youth in Scheveningen, with the smell of the sea in her nose. Maybe that's the reason that both in her art and cooking the habitants of the sea still play an important role.

After an initial study as chemical analyst, in 1989 the big change began.
Searching for expanding her passion for cooking, she found herself on a big yacht in Southern France where she cooked for the owner, crew and guests for over a year.

She often bought fresh fish, lobster and crustaceans on the market of St. Tropez, but also in other harbors on Madeira and the Azores.
The latter group of islands was especially visited because of the presence of sperm-whales, of which the owner of the yacht was making a documentary about. Of course Jenny also took part in scuba-diving between shoals of these enormous animals.

Already during her analyst-training she made jewelry that she sold in the nightlife of The Hague. Once returned from the Mediterranean, this passion came back on the surface and made her going to the school for gold & silversmiths in Amsterdam (Mastersign 1994)

Meanwhile she worked as a cook at the famous The Hague artists society "Pulchri Studio". Gradually the urge to make larger works became stronger and the first sculptures in metal saw the light. In 1995 she was officially allowed as visual artist at "Stroom HCBK".

In the years that followed, Jenny made several large trips to non-western cultures, where she found new inspiration for her work. As such, a trip to Pakistan in 1996 led to a series of sculptures titled "Veiled Women" and her trip to India in 1999 led to a series of objects "Behind Veiled Doors". In 2004 she made a large journey through Russia, Mongolia and China with the Trans-Mongolian-Express.

In her jewelry she already worked with a combination of precious metals and prepared fishskin and also in her current larger work we regularly see returning materials like these.

At the moment her work is developing in a new direction, in which her visual art and culinary interest become more and more integrated.
Jenny is currently making paintings and designing sculptural art that enhance the visual pleasures of a well-layed table, as well as artistic work with more practical applications.