Yesterday evening, we had a great opening of our gallery “denieuwegalerie” from the “Amstelland Art Group”. There were many people even until closing time 10pm/22 hours at the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The whole groups of seven from “denieuwegalerie”: Hanae, Pascale, Annette, Astrid, Jet, Desiree and I.
My Slipware work and Horsehair Raku work.
Some pictures of how my work is presented at the Dutch Luxury Design store: https://dutchluxurydesign.com/nl/onze-kunstenaars/swanica-ligtenberg
The opening was on October 9, 2022 until the end of December. And always online.
Reception opening with my “Caldera” Horsehair Plate on the table.
Reception opening of the exposition.
Kamakura-Red Bamboo Plate.
Kamakura-Red Hokusai Wave Plate, “Saute” Slipware Sculpture, “Pirouette” Slipware Sculpture.
Kamakura-Red FLower-of-Life Plate.
“%-Petals” Horsehair Raku Bowl, “Tip-Toe” Slipware Sculpture, “Dancing Shoes” Slipware Sculpture.
“Iris” Slipware vase and “Poppy” Slipware Vase.
“Mars” Horsehair Raku Plate and Kintsugi Slipware Vase.
Some pictures of how my work is presented at the Dutch Luxury Design store: https://dutchluxurydesign.com/nl/onze-kunstenaars/swanica-ligtenberg
The opening was on July 10, 2022 until the end of September. And always online
The Kamakura-Red plates: Flower-of-Life and Bamboo plates.
Slipware Vases
The slipware dancing statues and Kamakura-Red “Wave” Plate.
The sign of the Design Store.
The store is on the 2nd and 3rd floor.
My artwork on the DLD website.
On the DLD website. It is also in English.
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.
I would like to invite you to my exhibition at the Dutch Luxury Design Gallery from July 1 - September 30, 2022 with my Kamakura-Red and colored engraved slipware artwork. It will also be online for a whole year to enjoy and to buy.
https://dutchluxurydesign.com/nl/nieuw-in-portfolio?sort_options=a.ordering-ASC&start=60
https://dutchluxurydesign.com/en/our-artists/swanica-ligtenberg
The opening of the exhibition is on July 10, 2022 at 2 pm - 5 pm; 14 hours to 17 hours.
The address is: Voorstraat 1-3, 4116 BC Buren (Gld), Netherlands.
“Poppy” Slipware Vase 46 x 17 x 17cm/ 18 x 6.7 x 6.7 inch
“Iris” Slipware Vase 60 x 22 x 22cm/ 23.6 x 8.6 x 8.6 inch.
This town Buren has a historical connection to the Dutch Royal House of Oranje-Nassau. So, when you come to have a look, you can visit this lovely town with its old city brick wall and still one city gate entrance. It has many little shops and galleries and you can easily walk every where, because it is a small town and restaurant “The Prince” has delicious coffee and cake!!!
https://www.excitinghistory.com/location/buren-oranjestad/
“Pirouette” Slipware Statue.
Kamakura-Red Flower-of-Life Plate. 51 x 51 x 6.5cm/ 20 x 20 x 2.5 inch.
“Saute” Slipware Statue
I am ready with my art in the frontyard for the upcoming “Amstellanddag”. I participate with my SwanCeramics Art Gallery to show that art is an important expression influenced by living in this beautiful landscape and living along the river “The Amstel”. The gallery is open the whole day from 10am to 5pm.
It is Amstellanddag on June 12, 2022. This day is organized to show and enjoy the beautiful cultural and historical “Amstelland” with its farmhouses, nature, art en recreational enjoyment of this region. Very important is to show and discuss how to protect this special environment of the “Amstelland” surroundings.
Please, come and visit and enjoy my art.
Achterdijk 29, 1191JH,
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
My new “Tulipa” slipware vase mounted on a pedestal in the front yard!
Map of all the events.
Number 9 is SwanCeramics Art Gallery.
The frontpage of the flyer.
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 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
“Poppy” Slipware Vase: 19”/48cm high; 8”/20cm breed.
“Tulipa” Slipware Vase: 24”/61cm high; 9.5”/24cm wide.
My Booth.
Colored engraved and scratched Slipware “Let’s Dance” Sculptures and “Emotion” Vases and Kamakaura-Red Artworks.
Horsehair Raku Artworks.
Colored Slipware “Different Views” Artwroks.
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.
“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.”
ICAN = International Ceramic Artist Network
Slipware “GREEN” Cup
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.
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!!!
Works from Lou Smedts and others.
The Arts Monopole Gallery.
Works from Els Janssens and other.
Sabine Betz.
Photographs Gerda Genijn, my works and others.
Leo Wong.
Outside: Marthe Verhouten and other.
My art works.
Gefeliciteerd! Uw werk is positief geballoteerd voor de digitale presentatie tijdens Art Eindhoven (NABK), Zaterdag 4 en Zondag 5 September 2021.
Uw werken met omschrijvingen worden tijdens de beurs op 4 schermen getoond, u krijgt een vermelding in de catalogus en er wordt 1 werk getoond op de website. Na afloop van de beurs wordt de volledige presentatie van werken gedeeld op Facebook en Instagram.
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Art Eindhoven
Congratulations! Your work is accepted in the digital presentation during Art Eindhoven Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September 2021.
Your works with descriptions will be presented on 4 screens during the exposition, you will be mentioned in the catalogue and 1 work will be shown on the website. Your works will be presented on Facebook and Instagram after the exhibition.
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
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.
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
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”.
