The 2nd Opening of the Dutch Luxury Design Exposition

October 15, 2022

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.

Kamakura-Red Hokusai Wave Plate, “Saute” Slipware Sculpture, “Pirouette” Slipware Sculpture.

“%-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.

The process of making a big slipware engraved vase

September 8, 2022

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.

I put a basic layer of black slip. This gives depth to the decoration.

I draw the lines with a knife and then carve a layer of clay out.

I carve out lines out of the black slip. Then I paint it partly with a blue slip and scratch the line engraving off with a knife.

The second engraving of different size circles.

I put on the pink slip and scratched it partly off.

The yellow slip over the black slip and engraving.

Scratched off the yellow slip and engraving the bands.

Painting on the green slib on the striped engraving: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C5mtGFeK_go

The end result: bisque and clear glaze fired “Trumpet” Vase.

The opening of the exposition at the Dutch Luxury Design Gallery

July 19, 2022

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.

The slipware dancing statues and Kamakura-Red “Wave” Plate.

On the DLD website. It is also in English.

Groeps Expositie in Galerie Tijd voor Kunst

July 7, 2022

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.

DUTCH LUXURY DESIGN GALLERY EXHIBITION

June 25, 2022

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/

Kamakura-Red Flower-of-Life Plate. 51 x 51 x 6.5cm/ 20 x 20 x 2.5 inch.

Amstellanddag/Open studio on June the 12th!!!

June 6, 2022

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!

"Brabant Art Fair" in Breda, Netherlands

March 6, 2022

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.

Colored engraved and scratched Slipware “Let’s Dance” Sculptures and “Emotion” Vases and Kamakaura-Red Artworks.

Colored Slipware “Different Views” Artwroks.

Finalist in ICAN 2nd Holiday Cup Show

November 13, 2021

“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

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

October 17, 2021

“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

September 19, 2021

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!

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.

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

2021 SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION AT GALLERY ARTS MONOPOLE IN BELGIUM-2

September 16, 2021

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!!!

Photographs Gerda Genijn, my works and others.

2021 September exhibition at Gallery Arts Monopole in Belgium

August 18, 2021

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

April 8, 2021

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”!!!!