Exposition at the Van Aerden garden, Netherlands

Today, I set up my installation of my “Gingko Horsehair Raku leaves” at the Mrs. Van Aerden garden in Leerdam, the Netherlands in a group exhibition called “GROEI/GROWTH”.
The address is: Hofje van Mevrouw Van Aerden, Kerkstraat 67, 4141AV, Leerdam, Netherlands. It is open: Wo till Sat 1pm - 5pm and from July 26 till September 10, 2023.

https://hofjevanaerden.nl/

The Horsehair Raku GINGKO Leaves.

JanHein vanStiphout with his tiny glass-blown flowers; Lia Koster fused glass and steel; and the Gingkos.

The invitation.

Announcement from the clay magazine “Klei”, the July-Sept 2023 issue.

Hendrike Huijmans with organic grow forms from polyester glass fibers.

Imke Beek with metalwire-paper-paint seeds.

Petra Verhees: Trees from fused glass, sand, copper, oxides and wood.

Huub and Adelheid Kortekaas: Pot plants from steel.

Francine Vermeer: Installation of a flower Vigna Caracella: glass blown.

Another relaxed day of exposition lectures and connecting on Sept. 9.

Lectures from several artist from Austria: Petra Lindenbauer, South Africa: Blayne Knox and Taiwan: Ming-Wen Lin and Shu Ling Wu.

 

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With Nora Van Driessche from Belgium.

With Nora Van Driessche from Belgium.

Dinner with Yvetti van den Berg from Netherlands, Martina Dielen from Netherlands, Yocelyne Blanchard from Canada, Karen Loader from South Africa and Monique Braune from Canada.

Dinner with Yvetti van den Berg from Netherlands, Martina Dielen from Netherlands, Yocelyne Blanchard from Canada, Karen Loader from South Africa and Monique Braune from Canada.

With Lou Smedts the organizer of the whole exhibition, congress and International Ceramic Art Project.

With Lou Smedts the organizer of the whole exhibition, congress and International Ceramic Art Project.

With Alvin Tan Teck Heng during Taiwanese tea ceremony presented by Kun-Chen Tsai

With Alvin Tan Teck Heng during Taiwanese tea ceremony presented by Kun-Chen Tsai

A nice Expo day in Vichte in the "Old Church" and tea ceremony by Kun-Chen Tsai of Taiwan on Sept 8.

Yesterday, the exposition was open again. It was a relaxed day with visitors, lectures and movies.
And the tea ceremony of Kun-Chen Tsai of Taiwan.


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Presentation by Karen Loader

Presentation by Karen Loader


 

 

The lecture of Karen Loader. She is from the UK but lives at the moment in South Africa. Her art work is inspired by nature which is her profession as botanist.

To a Brickyard Museum and a Beer Brewery on Sept 7

We left early in the morning to go to the Boom Brickyard Museum in the Rupelstreek.
The Romans introduced the ceramics for making roof tiles and bricks in Belgium but it got lost when the Roman Empire perished. Only in the 13th century, with the start of the monasteries the firing of bricks and roof tiles revived until this day. There is a huge clay deposit because of the big river de Schelde. Clay is gathered and processed, formed, dried and fired. There are different kind of clays: for the flower pots it is quite course; for the roof tiles less course and for the floor tiles clay with high plasticity and hardly no pores is used. There were many, many factories!

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During midday we drove to Brewery "The Anker" in the city Mechelen. There are many beer breweries in Belgium for which they are well-known.

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To Oostende on the beach on Sept 6

Some artists had left because of other commitments in life. With still a big group left we went with a tour bus to Oostende, a city near the beach. Fortunately, it did rain during the lunch what we enjoyed in a beautiful old hotel palace! Then we went out and enjoyed the beach, sea and walking around. 

 

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