Nelly started 35 years ago her artist-career. The inspiration comes from her surroundings : the skies, the skylines, the dikes and the sea. Zeeland is famous for the special, beautifull light: it is refracting in the water around the isles and the polders. Her landscapes are representing a special place in the Dutch tradition of great landscape-artists.

Other subjects are dark coloured flowers, roses and tulips, and also her so beloved CATS AND CATWOMEN. She obtained a very personal style in representing her favourites.

Her works are in the collections of big compagnies like Dow Chemical, BASF, Rank Xerox etc. and in a lot of private collections all over the world.

A critic wrote about her: This Zeeland artist shows that in art personality is more important than originality.(Sietse Postma, a well respected critic for KUNSTBEELD, an art-magazine in the Netherlands) Since the end of 2005 she restarted her abstract works from longtimes ago (1990 - 1995). The jewelry made of rubber (latex) is represented in galeries in Paris, Barcelona (Forum Ferlandina) and Antwerp. It has also been showed in Paris in the collection of the Dutch famous fashiondesigner Aziz Bekkaoui.