Van Zeijl is invested in her images. By using subjects that intrigue and evoke emotion, she reinvents herself over and over and has created a body of work to illustrate these autobiographical narratives. 

In a contemporary art world that condemns beauty as camouflage for conceptual shallowness, championing high aesthetics is nothing short of rebellion. Van Zeijl takes female beauty ideals from the past and sabotages them in the context of today. As a woman, she experiences prejudices against women; misogyny in numerous ways including sex discrimination, belittling/violence against women, and sexual objectification. Van Zeijl aestheticizes these prejudices in her work to visually discuss this troubling dichotomy, presenting a new way of seeing female beauty. An oppressive idealization of beauty is tackled in her work through unique female characters and emotions.

Van Zeijl is invested in her images. By using subjects that intrigue and evoke emotion, she reinvents herself over and over and has created a body of work to illustrate these autobiographical narratives. Her work takes from all she experiences in life - she is both model, creator, object, and subject. Going beyond the realm of individual expression, so common in the genre of self-portraiture, she strives to be both universal and timeless with a subtle political hint.

Van Zeijl has shown work continuously and internationally over the past fifteen years, represented by galleries located in The UK, USA, The Netherlands, and Belgium, and exhibiting at emerging and established international art fairs in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Italy. She was nominated for the Prix De La Photographie Paris and The Fine Art Photography Awards. She was also one of the winners of The Young Masters Emerging Women Art Prize, London. Her work is held in private & public collections in the USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, France, and The Netherlands.

Private & Public Collections

• Four Season Hotel George V - Paris, France

• Claes Iversen Collection - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Robert & Karen Duncan - Nebraska, US

• Ellen & Gerald Sigal - Washington DC, US

• Edgat Schhermerhorn Collection - The Netherlands

• Museum Amsterdam Castle - The Netherlands

• Various private collections in the US, UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany