My “Hip-Hop": let’s Dance sculpture is in the September-October issue of the Dutch KLEI Magazine in the section of the “Klei Galerij” with the subject: human figure.
New work at the Brabant Art Fair in Tilburg 2024
BRABANT ART FAIR
OP 16 EN 17 MAART 2024
KUNSTBEURS VAN HOOG NIVEAU IN UNIEKE SFEER
DE KOEPELHAL IN TILBURG BIEDT DE BRABANT ART FAIR EEN SFEERVOLLE ENTOURAGE.
ART EINDHOVEN Feb 4 + 5, 2023
Please, join me at ART EINDHOVEN, an art fair, on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of February 2023 in the “Klokgebouw” in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The “Klokgebouw” is the old Philips factory. The industrial and nostalgic surrounding gives ART EINDHOVEN the right atmosphere.
More than 130 selected, juried artists show their most beautiful works.
We also will announce the winner of the Painting of the Year and the National Ceramic Award.
ART EINDHOVEN is open both days from 11 am to 17:30pm.
The process of making a big slipware engraved vase
I started throwing big vases again. I make it from several thrown parts put together. The highest I can go is 26 inch/ 66 cm so, it will fit in the kiln.
Painting on the green slib on the striped engraving: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C5mtGFeK_go
"Brabant Art Fair" in Breda, Netherlands
I will be participating in the Brabant Art Fair in the “Big Church” in the city Breda in the Netherlands with the organization: Dutch Association for the Visual Arts on March 12 + 13, 2022.
I will be showing lots of new work.
The address: Kerkplein 2, 4811XT Breda, Netherlands.
Please, come if you have the time and enjoy all the 60 artists!
Zaterdag 12 en zondag 13 maart is de Grote Kerk in Breda nog mooier dan ze al is. 60 kunstenaars tonen dan een selectie van hun mooiste kunstwerken tijdens de Brabant Art Fair. En natuurlijk ontbreek ik zelf ook niet met een selectie van mijn werken! Hier vind je veel informatie: www.brabantartfair.nl.
Het adres: Kerkplein 2, 4811 XT Breda, Nederland.
Movie of exposition: https://youtu.be/NLh3o3_AYtk
I am a SURFACE DECORATION Winner for the ICAN Calendar Oct 2022.
I am winner of the SURFACE DECORATION Calendar for the month of October 2022 with my “Comfort” Emotion Slipware Vases: a competition organized by ICAN (International Ceramic Artists Network)!!!
Winners announced for the
2022 ICAN Wall Calendars!
“The winners have been chosen! We had hundreds of submissions from our talented members, and this year’s entries were outstanding. All submissions were juried by the editorial staff from Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Please check out our winners below, and the calendars will be available soon! With an ICAN calendar on your wall, you can be inspired by this beautiful work every day.”* (*text from ICAN email).
The 2022 ICAN Wall Calendar Contest winners:
Surface Decoration
Johanna DeMaine, January + Cover
Jennifer Rosseter, February
Heidy Freyre, March
Hannah Graeper Carver, April
Kimberly Hilligoss, May
Lisa WB Walker, June
Susan Cohen Thompson, July
Patricia Griffin, August
Timothy Sullivan, September
Swanica Ligtenberg, October
Crain Art Studio, November
Mike Hamlin, December
Sculpture
Catharina Goldnau, January
Chanakarn Semachai, February
Jean Paull, March
Cristina Myrrha, April
Mari Emori, May + Cover
Jennifer Rosseter, June
Jen Pankratz, July
Nikki Renee Anderson, August
Liz de Beer, September
Tenyoh, October
Nancy Roberts, November
Louise Bell, December
Vase and Vessels
Sam Scott, January
Janet K Burner, February
Andrew Matheson, March
Bev Ellis, April
Marguerite Goff, May
Isak Isaksson, June
Terrie Lee Steinmeyer , July
Jan Schachter, August
Marcy Neiditz, September
Lauren Kearns, October
Genie Sue Weppner, November + Cover
Linda Hargrave, December
Artworks at Gallery 8 Archer in Tongeren, Belgium
Today, I brought art works to be included in Gallery 8 Archer owned by Nadine Van Oost in the city of Tongeren, the first established town in Belgium. The Romans ran their road, towers and walls through the city. Hence they have a beautiful Gallo-Roman museum and a big statue of the brave Ambiorix who was prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul and a Belgian national hero because of his resistance against Julius Caesar, as written in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.
Nadine’s gallery is situated in the center in an old house which she is renovating and the gallery is beautiful!
2021 SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION AT GALLERY ARTS MONOPOLE IN BELGIUM-2
Still 1 1/2 week to go with this exhibition at the gallery Arts Monopole.
It is a wonderful and interesting exhibition with mainly all teawares, but also sculptures, paintings, photographs, graphic designs and poems.
And I have to say, that I sold 2 works especially the dancing “Hip-Hop” vase sculpture!
So, please, come over and enjoy this very special exhibition!!!
2021 September exhibition at Gallery Arts Monopole in Belgium
I am part of a international group exhibition at the gallery Arts Monopole in St.Amand in Belgium from Sept 4 - Sept. 26, 2021 with my newly designed Chawans (Japanese teabowls/slipware technique) and other people with sculptures, photographs, graphic design, paintings and poems.
Every day it opens van 2pm - 6pm, only not Monday and Tuesday.
Of course, there are the Corona restrictions, but the galerie is open!!!
Please, try to come and enjoy the arts!!!!
New developed artworks year 2020
Last year February 2020, I participated in the “RISE 2020” ceramic residency in France organized and guided by Dr.Wendy Gers and Lauren Kearns: https://www.swanceramics.com/blog Look for March 22, 2020.
The research done during those weeks developed to the rediscovery of my love for colors and working with slips and free playful transformed forms.
I restricted myself to a vessel form with a long neck to challenge myself and still including my feature mark of burning Horsehair Raku. I called the vases: “Different views” because of the USA election time that year.
This evolved in “Emotion” Vases: bending the neck to the front or backward or around each other which resulted in beautiful expressions, even though there are no arms.
And all used with the new color slips engraving and sgrafitto technique.
Then I thought I could cut the vase and make legs and from one came the other expressed in certain dance positions: and my all old theme of “Life is a dance” what every body can still use now after so much confinement. So, “Let’s Dance”!!!!