Swan Art Gallery Open
Swan Art Gallery is open from Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 – 16:00. Only Mondays closed. Please, feel free to come in and look and enjoy my “Kamakura Red” and “Horsehair” Ceramics. WELCOME!!! . Continue Reading
Swan Art Gallery is open from Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 – 16:00. Only Mondays closed. Please, feel free to come in and look and enjoy my “Kamakura Red” and “Horsehair” Ceramics. WELCOME!!! . Continue Reading
Two days ago I had the opening of my gallery in my little house in Kamakura. The weather was beautiful and it was a perfect day. Some old and new friends came and some interested people who read the news of the opening in the newspaper or had heard it on the Kamakura 82.8FM ra ... Continue Reading
This Saturday, January 16, 2010 I will open the ” Swan Art Gallery” in my house in Kamakura, Japan. It will open at 10:00am and I will give pottery demonstrations on the wheel at 11:00, 13:00 and 15:00pm. You are all very welcome! After that the gallery will be open o ... Continue Reading
There was another article about me in the monthly ASAHI Kamakura newspaper on December 1, 2009. It talks about my red shiny Kamakura Red! They explain who I am, that I come from Holland and that I burn Horsehair on my pots, that I won several awards for the horsehair technique e ... Continue Reading
A piece of mine “The Kamakura Red PEONY Vase” is accepted at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair and send there by Guangzhen “Po” Zhou, who is born in Shanghai China in 1953, is a ceramic artist and writer, director of the Chinese Ceramic Art Counci ... Continue Reading
For 3 days I participated in The 10th World Art Educators’ Workshop featuring IKUZO FUJIWARA and coordinated by Steve Tootell, ceramic art and performance art director from the International School of The Sacred Heart in Tokyo and facilitated by Euan Craig, a Mashiko woodf ... Continue Reading
Three Horsehair 3D Wall art pieces are accepted in the International Creative Competition “Hidden Treasures” organized by the LarkGallery online. Please, follow the link: and scroll down the page. Horsehair Gingko Leaves Continue Reading
Today was my last day of the show. It was quite a rainy day. Luckily, still some friends and interested people came. I enjoyed my exhibition tremendously and it looked beautiful in this Ginsuzu (Silver Bell) Gallery. On Sunday, the reception had a great outcome with wonderful fri ... Continue Reading
I’m very busy for my Kamakura exhibition for next week. I’m going to squeeze in some time to show you a couple of pieces, my first “Kamakura Red” work out of my electric kiln here in Japan. I shipped one of my Skutt kilns from California, USA to Yokohama, ... Continue Reading
Yesterday, we went to an exposition from Yamato Tomoko, a friend of mine who lives in Mashiko. Now, she had a show in Tokyo in the Brocken Gallery, so we were able to go. It is a very modern gallery from concrete, nice and clean in a normal neighborhood with all houses. Tomoko-s ... Continue Reading