Henk Roozendaal

Henk Roozendaal...... Nederlands

Painter & model Sharon Bol

Volume 2

First copy for the Queen

The poet
Raymundo Saleh

Portraits of Bonaire is a bilingual book (English/Dutch) with 16 painted and written portraits of remarkable men and special women of Bonaire. They all lived a long time on the island and don't intend to leave their beloved insula ever. The collection of the portraits form a bouquet of the rich culture and beautiful nature of the island Bonaire.
Forwords are written by the author and the painter themselves.
Hard cover with linen, 28x28cm, 108 pages. Published by Henk Roozendaal b.v., Bonaire. ISBN (989) 99904-0-7150.
Price: 30 euro in the Netherlands. $35 in Bonaire. Mail order USA: www.bonairestuff.com

Jellastone Pet Park
Jella van Berkum

The journalist Boi Antoin						Gone for a little while... Delno Tromp
			Henk Roozendaal (the Netherlands, 1947) settled in Bonaire with wife Herma and son Boy in 1999, after a career as an advertising creative. Here, he took up his old beloved hobby: drawing and painting. In a short time, he developed a style of his own as painter of murals. The next step became painting portraits with acrylic on large wooden panels. In 2002, together with author Guus Gerritsen, he produced the book Portraits of Bonaire..

The captain Captain Don		Working together Ben Olerana & Rian van Ballegooijen
	Guus Gerritsen (the Netherlands, 1938), has been living in Bonaire with his wife Nita since 1998. They settled on the island after a couple of visits and an ocean crossing on their sailing yacht Aeolus.
The singer Emma Sint Jago	In Bonaire, Guus is a well-known jazz saxophonist, and he is co-founder of the Jazz Club Bonaire. Before settling in Bonaire, Guus finished a career as management consultant. During this period, he wrote various publications. The written portraits in book Portraits of Bonaire are based on interviews with the persons concerned and on the personal experience of the author.	Young love Hans Evers & Celia Fernandes Pedra

The business woman
Marisela Croes

The actrice
Jackie Bernabala

The mangrove man
Doi Boekhoudt

Fish for sale
Doei Diaz

The boy's dream
Franklin Antoin

Food and drink
Hans Holkenborg & Douwe Dooper

The midwife
Marita Winklaar

Covergirl
Sharon Bol

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Two fragments:
'"Would you like chicken or beef?" I had dozed off before I found myself looking into the hazel eyes of a lovely, charming woman who, just before, had explained the oxygen masks with a show such as if she was working the stage. Her graceful gestures and dance steps were complimented by a smile that seemed to imply she would even have been willing to strap the thing to your face personally. As she switched to the life vests, I was treated to more pleasing movements. What a breath of fresh air after all those little ladies from Het Gooi, fresh from secondary school and selected by our native airlines solely on the basis of their priggishness and blond hair colour… I went for the chicken, as I usually do on my return flight to my warm island. It's always a nice prelude to all the lovely roasted chicken breasts I would have.

Homo Ludens
Artie de Vries

At the end of 1998, we had only just moved to Bonaire. A few times a week, an intriguing fellow passed by our house, on a very old ladies' bike with a little plastic duck on the handlebars. He used it as a bike horn, squeezing it to make peeping noises. In the 'sixties, at the height of Flower Power, that was the 'flash' bike to have, if you were a rebellious youth; especially if you rode it wearing an oversize frock coat with guilded epaulettes. The man on the bike wore a floppy, shapeless hat on his curly hair. He was on his way to the sailing boats, some 120 yards from our house at Playa Lechi. The little boats were set afloat over the coral stones; children used them to learn how to sail. Sometimes, the man would accompany one of the inexperienced beginners in his own boat, but usually he biked back and forth over the boulevard, keeping a keen eye on his pupils. All children would return after a few hours, the boats were hauled ashore and left behind on the pebbly beach. 'Mister Artie' would mount his bike and head for home. That was how the children of Bonaire have learnt to sail: twice a week at a little coral-stone beach, supervised by a hippie English teacher who thoroughly enjoyed this extracurricular activity.

Henk Roozendaal

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