Over a period of sixteen years Liedeke Kruk made more than 200 portraits of artists and art related people. During those years Kruk was participating in exhibitions herself, including ground braking group shows like Sonsbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and This Is the Show and the Show Is Many Things in Ghent, Belgium. As participating artist she made her work of portraying her fellow artists in an informal way, and exhibited the results on the spot.