After it was destroyed during the German bombing of 1940, she moved to Oost Castle in Eijsden, where she married Teun Roosenburg and led an art colony.

[1][2] The daughter of Albert Goudriaan, a shipowner, she expressed interest in art from a young age;[3][4] she also learned the piano, a hobby that she retained for the rest of her life.

[6] Her lessons placed great emphasis on realism, such that the "pottery she drew there, you could easily knock to pieces [but] there was not a cent of art in it.".

She thus decided to start anew, taking a style that diverged from the conventions she had been taught; the painter-cum-illustrator Nicolaas Wijnberg [nl] quotes her as saying, "This is my chance to be rid of that damned academy in one fell swoop.

There, an art colony had developed at the Oost Castle under her boyfriend, Teun Roosenburg, who was seeking a means of continuing to work without registering with the Nazi-established Nederlandsche Kultuurkamer (Chamber of Dutch Culture).

[6] In 1956, she and the Oost Castle community worked on a series of landscapes, completed aboard small boats, that showed views from the sea; however, bouts of seasickness meant that this project was short-lived.

[6] In style, Roosenburg-Goudriaan's work is characterized by broad strokes and overlapping layers of paint, which the Limburgsch Dagblad described as "fierce and intense" while retaining the spontaneity of art.