Hermus also worked for BIJ, the magazine of De Bijenkorf.
[1][2] After the death of her husband Ton Blommerde [nl] (1946-2005) she started making a series of life-size portraits of friends who had been models named Les belles Hollandaises (2008), including Moniek Toebosch.
From 2012 onwards this series was followed by a number of life-size portraits of eighteen famous Dutch men in their shirts, entitled Hollandse Heren (2015), including Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Wim Crouwel, Wim Pijbes and Adriaan van Dis.
[3][4] After this, she began doing double exhibitions starting in 2018 alongside Ton Blommerde, whom was also helping design a catalog of her work for future exhibition.
Her plans for after the exhibition series ended were never completed and Hermus died on 11 April 2021, aged 73.