Rodney van den Beemd
One of my drawings has been used to illustrate an article on the 125th birthday of Joseph Roth in Anno – Das Magazin der Medienjubiläen (The Magazine of Media Anniversaries), the periodical publication of the Institute of Communication Science at the University of Bamberg. It presents special media anniversaries and honors birthdays of famous publicists, artists and much more. The article is written by Professor Markus Behmer, the publisher of “Anno”.
![Image of magazine Hund und Kunst - Rodney van den Beemd [2019]](https://rodneyvandenbeemd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/www.petrahartl.at_hundundkunst_20190613-13062019-225500c2.jpg "Hund und Kunst - Rodney van den Beemd [2019]")
Artist Petra Hartl from Vienna runs an extensive and interesting blog titled ‘Hund und Kunst’, dedicated to dogs and/in art. After featuring a selection of my ink drawings of dogs in a blog article last year, now my recent works have also been published in a new feature, titled ‘Neue Tusche-Skizzen von Rodney van den Beemd’. I’m again very pleased with the view she takes on them and the effort she did to step into my work and describe it in such an inviting way.
Full link to the article:
http://www.petrahartl.at/hundundkunst/2019/06/13/neue-tusche-skizzen-von-rodney-van-den-beemd
A few weeks ago Italian publishing house Castelvecchi Editore asked permission to use one of my drawings for the cover of the Italian version of the correspondence between Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig, titled “L’amicizia è la vera patria” (Friendship is the true homeland). The book has now been printed and I was very pleased to receive my complimentary copies earlier this week. Check it out through: http://www.castelvecchieditore.com/prodotto/lamicizia-e-la-vera-patria/
De Bedachtzamen (The Thoughtful) is the name of a collective of writers and their homonymous blog. They consider the themes of time and melancholy as their driving force and write about painting, poetry, music and literature; pre-eminently forms of expression in which time and melancholy constantly seep through, according to their manifesto.
For a new blog contribution, an article about Joseph Roth, they asked me if they could use one of my portrait drawings of Joseph Roth. If you’re able to read Dutch or are satisfied to use an online translation service, you can read the article “Joseph Roth, sign of the times” here.
![Iamge of magazine De Bedachtzamen - De Bedachtzamen - Joseph Roth, teken van de tijd [2018]](https://rodneyvandenbeemd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/De-Bedachtzamen-Joseph-Roth-teken-van-de-tijd-20180831iPhone-X.png "De Bedachtzamen - Joseph Roth, teken van de tijd [2018]")
![Image of magazine Hund und Kunst - Rodney van den Beemd - Inky Animals [2018]](https://rodneyvandenbeemd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/www.petrahartl.at_hundundkunst_1.jpg "Hund und Kunst - Rodney van den Beemd - Inky Animals [2018]")
Artist Petra Hartl from Vienna runs an extensive and interesting blog titled ‘Hund und Kunst’, dedicated to dogs and/in art. My recent ink drawings of dogs and other animals drew her attention and after checking out more of my work she did a feature of it on her blog, titled ‘Inky Animals’. I’m very pleased with the view she takes on it and the effort she did to step into my work and describe it in such a poetic way.
Full link to the article:
http://www.petrahartl.at/hundundkunst/2018/05/08/rodney-van-den-beemd-inky-animals
My ‘Inky Animals’ series has been featured on iGNANT.
‘Inky Animals’ is an ongoing series of expressive ink-drawings aimed at catching form, expression and movement of animals with bold and minimal appliance of ink. They are all drawn/painted with wayward twigs, feathers, leafs and other unconventional drawing tools which compared to conventional drawing tools like fountain pen or brush leaves far less control over the flow of the ink, leading to a broad variation in the thickness of lines and also the occasional blob of ink.