The Dovetail Gallery, a fine art design luxury store, accepted my horsehair works which I was able to carry in my suitcases recently for a visit. I am very glad to have some work again in the USA, where I lived for 30 years. Thank you so much Patricia for your appreciation and acceptance.
The gallery.
The gallery.
Kintsugi Horsehair Raku Plate.
4 Horsehair Raku Plates.
Mishima Horsehair Raku Plate and “In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Vase.
I participate in an exposition for nominee of the Culture Price of Ouder-Amstel.
The title of the exposition/competition is: Do you hear the music?
The first show is in the City Hall of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel from March 22 - April 16, 2022.
The second show is in the “Dorpshuis” of the city Duivendrecht from April 19 - May 20, 2022.
You can vote for the one you like best!!!!
SOME OF THE ART WORKS.
Hear the song beneath your wings.
Inge Wiedijk is the WINNER!
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.
I am very happy that I can participate in an international exposition in Orleans, France, called: “Happiness reflected in Art”. The main organizer in Lou Smedts. It is from 13 to 21 November, 2021.
This is a postponed exposition because of the Covid pandemic. And still it is difficult to travel. Please, the people who can come, enjoy the exposition!!!
“In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Vases.
At the exhibition!
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.
My garden art installation “Spread Your Wings” is accepted in The Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California “ACGA” first online exhibition.
https://acga.net/garden-art-an-acga-online-exhibition/
Please, enjoy the exhibition!
Horsehair Raku “Spread Your Wings” installation.
A new customer, Peter Schotman, who bought the big wing-set of the series of “Spread your Wings” , felt inspired by my works to write a poem about it (it is in Dutch) (He allowed me to put this poem and his name on my website). I feel very honored:
Op Vleugelen
van verlangen vlieg ik
-nog in veilige dekking-
een ongewisse toekomst
tegemoet
ben ik wel vorstbestendig
en coranoproof of
verspreid ik onnozele gans
de Chinese vogelpest
in dit arboretum van
eeuwenoude bomen
de moderne tijd haar
bespaard gebleven
geef mijn harde inborst
de kracht haar roots
te volgen met een boodschap
van verwachting en openheid
PETER SCHOTMAN
“Spread your Wings” in Von Gimborn Arboretum National Tree Museum in Doorn
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.
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'.
Tomorrow, the exposition will finally open after the postponement of several months due to the Corona virus. The Dutch Ceramics Group NVK and the National Tree Museum Gimborn organize together for the 4th time a ceramic exposition in this beautiful tree garden of the museum from September 5 to October 25, 2020.
47 NVK-members show 70 pieces of work with the theme “Ode to Nature”.
It is a beautiful park and rich vegetation and especially now a good chance to be outdoors, enjoy nature and beautiful art!!!
There will be no opening reception.
I show my Horsehair Raku “Spread Your Wings” installation; The tallest/smallest wing is about 2 meters/ 6”8’ tall; the lowest/biggest wing is about 80 cm/2 feet tall.
https://www.swanceramics.com/#/installations/
Horsehair Raku “Spread your Wings”.
https://www.historischamstelland.nl/ontdekken/museum-ouder-amstel
Today, my exposition “Repair your soul” opened in the Amstelland Museum in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in the Netherlands. It is a historical museum about the history of this village Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, which started in the year 1000, because of the important river the Amstel and river crossings. Those rivers were water ways carrying and moving people and freight in barges. The museum consist of 6 small Diaconie charity houses for elderly women and build by the Protestant Amstelkerk in 1733.
Jos Out https://www.outart.eu/en/ , a sculptor, is my partner in the exposition.
More information is on the exhibition page: https://www.swanceramics.com/exhibitions
The historical Amstelland Museum.
Entrance of the museum.
“Kintsugi” work: Repair your Soul.
“Caldera” Kintsugi Horsehair Plate: Repair your Soul.
“Spread your Wings”
“Spread your Wings”
“Spread your Wings”
“Mishima” and “In-Motion” Horsehair Work
“In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Vases
Winning ICAN NCECA Mishima Horsehair Raku Teapot
“In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Work.
Some beautiful sculptures from Jos Out.
Woman sculpture from Jos Out.
“Kintsugi” is a Japanese method of repairing broken ceramics. During my many movings from Japan back to the USA, within the USA and the return to the Netherlands, some of my work broke. Some of them beyond repair but some I was able to mend.
With this Kintsugi method the damage of the broken objects will be aggrandized by filling the cracks with GOLD. It is believed that when something suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful. “All of us developed scars throughout our lives. These scars should not be hidden. Our imperfections can be the birth of something new”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU
Some of my restored work:
“Caldera” 2 times Horsehair Raku fired; fumed with Ferric Chloride and Kintsugi repair.
Cut+paste Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Cup
“In-Motion” cut+paste Horsehair Kintsugi Vase
“Mishima” cut+paste Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Cup
“Golden Sun” Glazed Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Plate
“Swanflower” Horsehair Raku Kinstugi Vase
White Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Bowl
“Volcano” 2 times Horsehair Raku fired Kintsugi Bowl
White Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Bowl
My teapot “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot is included in an article in the Pottery Making Illustrated magazine of the May/June 2020 issue. Due to the cancellation of the NCECA conference end of March 2020, where the teapots would have be shown, they have chosen to showcase the 20 amazing teapots, chosen by editor and ceramic artist Katie Sleyman, in the magazine Pottery Making Illustrated. They have paired the teapots with Ivor Lewis’ article that elaborates on the important considerations of making each part of the teapot.
Please, enjoy the article and beautiful teapots.
https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/pottery-making-illustrated/ceramic-art-and-artists/ceramic-artists/short-stout-an-ican-exhibition/
"Originally published in Pottery Making Illustrated, May/June 2020. http://potterymaking.org. Copyright, The American Ceramic Society. Reprinted with permission."
May 2020; My “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot (NUMBER 6) is featured in an article in Pottery Making Illustrated in the May/June 2020 issue: Short and Stout; an ICAN Exhibition.
May 2020; My “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot (NUMBER 6) is featured in an article in Pottery Making Illustrated in the May/June 2020 issue: Short and Stout; an ICAN Exhibition.
Yesterday, the blacksmith Jan Cuiper finished the supports for my horsehair raku wings for the exhibition at the National Tree Museum the Arboretum in Doorn , Netherlands organized by the NVK Nationale Vakgroep Keramisten, the Dutch Ceramics Organization.
Unfortunately, the exhibition got postponed to September 2020 due to the Corona virus and pandemie.
I put the wings in my backyard. The title “SPREAD YOUR WINGS” which I came up with was months ago and so depressing now that every one has to stay inside. But at the other hand it is a very uplifting metaphor for the future to take off again after such a difficult time in which many people lost their precious lives due to the virus. My sincere condolences.
The tallest with smallest wings in the back are 2.15 meter or 7 feet high. The smallest with biggest wings in the front are 1.45 meter or 4.75 feet high. It is like they are flying up and get smaller when higher up with the movement of the wings. Then the steel pole moves in the wind like the wing is flying.
Horsehair Raku “Spread your Wings” installation in my backyard. The tallest wing in the back is 2.15 meter or 7’; the smallest front wing is 1.45 meter or 4,5’.
The 2nd tallest wing.
I put the installation in my frontyard so the people passing my house can enjoy it.
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.
This Saturday and Sunday November 17 + 18 quite some dear friends came and I met some very nice new people visiting my new SwanCeramics Art Gallery in my house in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.
Please, see the pictures of my sign outside and my gallery and workshop. Enjoy!
Sign in my garden
Friend Wilma.
Mels Booms the editor of the Duch clay magazine “De Kleine K” (The Small K) asked me to write about horsehair decoration for his “What and How” part in his magazine because of my long experience with this decoration technique.
Underneath you can read the Dutch version of the article. The English version is incorporated in my first biographical booklet of “My Japanese Adventures 1” about my horsehair work accomplishments in Japan.
First page.
Second page.
Third page.
An opening word by the chairman of the Dutch Ceramic Association.
Yesterday, was the opening of the exposition of "Praise to Nature" (Ode aan de Natuur) in the National Treemuseum Von Gimborn Arboretum in Doorn in the Netherlands.
I participate with my installation of "Rays of Light" Horsehair Raku GINGKO leaves.
It was a beautiful day!! And family and friends came to congratulate me.
Thank you.
Family.
To show how tall the leaves are.
Checking: how is it attached?
Yesterday I put my installation of the Raku Horsehair "Rays of Light" GINGKO leaves in the National Treemuseum Von Gimborn Arboretum in Door in the Netherlands. Now, the weather is beautiful and the songs of the many birds around my art work sound so beautiful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwWQ4VAEpFo&feature=youtu.be
"Rays of Light" Horsehair Raku Gingko Leaves.
"Ray of Light" Horsehair Raku Gingko Leaf
Some pictures of the exposition.
Gingko Raku Horsehair Wall Art and Glazed Raku Horsehair Milky Way Wall Art
2D Wall Art Gingko Raku Horsehair.
2D Wall Art HEART Raku Horsehair and Gingko in the waiting room.
2D Wall Art "Feeling Centered" in the waiting room of nuclear medicine.
As White as Snow Plates in the waiting room.