IAC Conference in Portugal 2024

I was at the 51st Congress of the IAC International Academy of Ceramics in Caldas da Rainha and Alcobaca in Portugal from September 12 - 24 with about 300 people from 50 nations. It’s all about ceramics, members meeting, presentations, lectures and exhibitions. Before and after the conference was a pre-tour south of Caldas da Rainha and after-tour north of Caldas da Rainha, which I both joined. It was about Portugese culture and ceramics and especially the tiles: Azelujos!! And don’t forget the delicious cultivated wines in Portugal.

Alcobaca

4 days of meetings and presentations

Lots of members

Manu, many beautiful tiles!

Many, many potters and their art.

Small figurine. So many!

Many beautiful churches.

Roman temple of Diana.

Castle with bull riding ring.

Pot Museum

Tiled church outside and in.

Groeps Expositie in Galerie Tijd voor Kunst

De 10-jarige JUBILEUM expositie loopt van 1 Juli tot 31 September, 2022 voor kunstwerken kleiner dan 10cm.

Het is prachtig opgesteld en interessant!!!

Het adres: Rijngeesterstraatweg 40, Oegstgeest, Nederland.

Gegraveerde slipware Chawan, kopje en doosje.

Holiday exposition in Amstelland Museum

I am part of the Holiday exposition at the Amstelland Museum in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands.

We’re open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 13/ 1pm to 16/4pm.
Please, come and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the museum and perhaps find some gifts for the Holidays!!! Thank you.

Amstelland Museum.

My Ceramics.

Finalist in ICAN 2nd Holiday Cup Show

“You have been selected as Finalist winner for the ICAN 2nd Annual Holiday Cup Show! By being selected, you will have the opportunity of your work being displayed in ICAN's online gallery and viewed by thousands of fellow ICAN members; along with the other winners of the 2nd Annual Holiday Cup Show, November 11– January 7, 2022.”

https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/Contests/ICANOnlineExhibition/ICAN-Online-Juried-Show-Exhibition-Archives-198456/2nd-annual-ican-cup-show-gallery

ICAN = International Ceramic Artist Network

Slipware “GREEN” Cup

I am a SURFACE DECORATION Winner for the ICAN Calendar Oct 2022.

“Comfort” Slipware Emotion Vases made in the lockdown Corona period to try to comfort each other. (H21,5cm/8,5inch x 15cm/6inch x 10cm/4inch)

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!

Gallery 8 Archer in downtown Tongeren.

Kamakura-Red glaze, Horsehair Raku on glaze Chawans, Slipware colored Chawans (Japanes teabowls), Colored glazed bowls.

Cut+Paste plus Mishima plus Horsehair Raku with horsehair, sugar and fuming of ferric chloride artworks and other artists.

Nadine’s work to the left with porcelain and pewter. My works with the “Emotion” Vases and “Dance” sculptural Vases and other artists.

“Broken” Heart, “Empty” Heart, “Full-of-love” Heart Colored Slipware Vases and Colored Slipware “Dance” Sculptural Vases. Stained glass smiley face made by Nadine’s daughter.

Horsehair Raku Mishima works.

Red clay, white slip, engraved, colored glazes bowls.

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!!!!

Blue-Black Slipware Chawan

Black-Yellow Slipware Matcha tea Box.

Yellow-Green Slipware Chawan

June 2021 Exhibition at the Amstelland Museum

Today, the exposition of some of my yellow-red and red Kamakura-Red works are shown in the Amstelland Museum in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in the Netherlands.

Finally, the museum can open again and there is a groups exposition of Inge Wiedijk (Paintings and Photography), Jos Out sculptures and Swanica Ligtenberg ceramics.

https://www.historischamstelland.nl/ontdekken/museum-ouder-amstel

We’re open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm - 4pm: a small start of a big continuation!

SwanCeramics art works.

Feeling Centered? works, Connection Vases and Wing Chalice.

Hokusai Wave Plate, River Bowl, Flower-of-Life Plate, Bamboo Plate and Sakura Box. All with the Kamakura-Red Glaze.

Glazed Horsehair Pitchers.

Amphora, River Vase, Yellow Tripod, River Tripod.

Acceptance of my "In-Motion" Horsehair Plate in the "KLEI" magazine

My “In-Motion” Horsehair Plate is accepted in the Clay Gallery “Klei Galerij” with topic “EAT/ETEN” in the Dutch “CLAY/KLEI” Magazine of the month 2020 November-December.

"KLEI in beweging"/"CLAY in motion"

Yesterday, the exhibition opened for the 40th anniversary for the Dutch clay magazine “KLEI”. The title is: “Clay in motion”.
I am one of the 40 accepted artists.

As of yesterday you can see my work at a cultural center HUIS 73, Hinthamerstraat 74, 5211MR in the city
‘s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The center is open from October 1 - October 25, 2020 from 9am to 9pm (on Saturdays and Sundays till 5pm).

You are all welcome and enjoy all the beautiful “MOVING” art!!!

Works from Julias van Dam and Els Janssens

Works from Loes Koth Penders and Orly Shemesh

1st Price: Wilma Hornsveld with 'teapot wink'; 2nd price: Hilde Butterman with 'Dordrecht'; 3rd price: Jeanne in Dorsthorst with 'Outdoor'.

New Brochure for SwanCeramics 2020

My dear friend Izabella, who is a webdesigner and who designed my first brochure/flyer, updated my brochure and see here:

Outside of the 3-fold brochure

Inside of the 3-fold brochure

Announcement online of the ICAN Teapot winners!!

2020 ICAN Juried Exhibition: Short and Stout

Horsehair Raku Mishima Teapot Set.

https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/ican/2020-ican-juried-exhibition-short-and-stout-winners/

One of the winners of the 2020 ICAN Juried Exhibition Short and Stout!

I am one of the 20 winners of the 2020 ICAN (International Ceramics Artists Network) Juried Exhibition at the field for “Short and Stout” teapots. This year’s juror, Katie Sleyman selected 20 Ceramic works to be included in this year’s exhibition, which will be on display at the ICAN booth (#400 in the convention center) from March 25 - 27 2020, at the NCECA Conference in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

All the Winners.

Horsehair Raku Mishima Teapot Set.

1st Taiwan International Chawan Festival, 2019

Five Chawans of mine participate in the 1st Taiwan International Chawan Festival.
This event will be held from November 1 - November 11, 2019 and is held at the ZHU-NAN Snake kiln in Taiwan.
There is a wonderful program will all kinds of events and travel. Unfortunately, I am not going this year. I visited Taiwan and this beautiful snake kiln last year.

Glazed Horsehair Raku Chawan 1

“Flower” colored Chawan

“Splashed” Colored Chawan

Glazed Horsehair Raku Chawan

I did sell at least 3 of my bowls!!! I am happy!

All the participating artists.

Opening of exposition at Galerie de Pomp, Warmond, Netherlands December 7, 2017 to January 7, 2018.

Tomorrow will be the opening of my exposition at Galerie de Pomp, Dorpsstraat 38, 2361BE Warmond, Netherlands from December 7, 2017 till January 7, 2018. 
 

We are four artists sharing the space in the beautiful house.

The gallery is in the old part of the village of Warmond in a very cozy neighborhood. It is attached to the old school house, which is now a great cafe restaurant and next to the old Town Hall, which is also an art gallery.

The Galerie de Pomp and the old school house.

The entrance by night.

My artworks in the gallery.

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO THE RIGHT: it is a carousel of pictures!!!!

Two dear friends at the opening: Joke Mol and Marian Hoffer.

Marian van Tol-Vink playing during the reception! Thank you.

Clara Sikking the gallery owner and paintress Ingrid van Polen.
Thank you so much Clara!

World Ceramic Craft & Art biennale in Belgium: “Bottles and Boxes”

It has been a while that I posted a blog.
But this time I will try to keep it up especially now that I created my new website which makes it easier to see my art and follow my entries.

Today, I will go to Vichte in Belgium to show some of my Glazed Horsehair Bottles in this exhibition and to attend the congress of lectures, movies and outings with many interesting ceramic artists from over the world.