National Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles, seeing landscape design as another form of artistic expression. She followed this post graduate program with an internship at the international landscape design firm of Gustafson-Porter in London in 2006. La Ruche In 2008 Van de Roer was awarded a position as an artist-in-residence at La Ruche in Paris, the de facto or artistic home in Montparnasse of artists such as Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brâncuși, and Diego Rivera among others. In 2009 she was one of the featured La Ruche 'artists of today' in an exhibition at the Palais Lumière in Evian entitled, . In 2010 she delivered a presentation at El Museo Mural Diego Rivera in Mexico City on Rivera's possible contributions to the evolution of the art of his peers at La Ruche and on his contemporary Pablo Picasso. Shows The first significant show of Van de Roer's work was in 1983 in New York entitled Architecture in the Contemporary Print at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, along with Robert Rauschenberg and Christo. The show featured one of her large engravings, Eva's Magic World. Subsequently, her work has been displayed at group and solo shows in numerous venues: Galerie Brun Léglise, Paris; Gallery Kunstplus, Rotterdam; John Szoke Gallery, New York; Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Exposition de Gravures; Galerie Global Art Source, Zurich; City of Evian; Centre Culturel de Corbevoie, and in the Fernelmont Contemporary Art Show. Artistic vision Van de Roer's philosophy on art is perhaps best represented in her etching series entitled De La Journée à la Nuit: Du Blanc au Noir-de-Noir au Blanc which was purchased by the Musée Rodin in Paris. The subject of the piece is Rodin's Thinker. The first of the twelve pieces is opaque, followed by an image with the barest of light revealing the knee and part of the leg of the recumbent Thinker. Each of her succeeding images adds step-by-step gradations of light to reveal more and more of the anatomy, until at last the entire figure is evident. In essence, the figure to her is merely a concept or a complete abstraction without light and/or the absence of light, as suggested by Kazimir Malevich in his famous 1915 canvas Black Square. Some of her best received oils produced to date demonstrating the same vision are her semi abstract landscapes, notably as in her TGV pieces, that convey rapid motion