[5] She was a member of Cercle des Femmes Peintres, a society for women artists.

She subsequently painted Victime de la misère depicting a nude woman, a clothed man, and chair with a bank note placed on it.

The scandal resulted in the premature ending of her three-year work grant from the Belgian Queen Regent.

Heijermans was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands) and was interested in bringing art to the people.

[7] In 1993 the Vakbondsmuseum [nl] (Trade Unions Museum) in Amsterdam held an exhibition of her work Een vergeten vrouw.