Exposition Gmunden Austria with IAC Benelux group

On Friday August 28 is the opening of the exposition “Fusion of Visions” at the Kammerhof Museum in Gmunden, Austria.
The exposition is from August 28 - October 5, 2025.

The opening hours are from Wednesday till Sunday from 10am till 5pm.

The address is: Kammerhofgasse 8,4810 Gmunden, Osterreich.

https://www.gmunden.at/events/fusion-of-visions/

https://www.gmunden.at/kultur-freizeit-tourismus/k-hof-museum-gmunden/

https://www.gmunden.at/

Please, feel free to come and enjoy the exposition!!!!

The invitation

The invitation.

The invitation

Horsehair Raku Mishima “Soul Disks” 2 + 3.

My Horsehair Raku Mishima “Soul Disks” 1 + 2

Horsehair Raku Mishima “Soul Disks” 1 + 3

Group exposition at "De Nieuwe Galerie"

I am part of a group exposition of the Amstelland Kunst group at “De Nieuwe Galerie” in “Het Stadshart” of Amstelveen the Netherlands. The exposition is from July 18 - August 24, 2025.

It is the SUMMER Exposition!!!

Please, come over and have a look when you are in the neighborhood!!!

The store front with my ‘Greek Connection” Vase.

My red-yellow glaze work and slipware work in the middle of the gallery.

Look at the beautiful art work on the walls!!

Exposition at Andenne with the IAC International Benelux group

I am a participant of the “Perspective” Ceramic Art Andenne Festival with the IAC Benelux group traveling exhibition: “Fusion of Visions” from May 17 to June 15, 2025. The exhibition presents a wide range of artistic styles, techniques and visions, offering the public a unique perspective on contemporary ceramics as a multifaceted art form.
”Vision”: is essential for artists guiding the development of ideas across a spectrum of styles;
”Fusion”: enhances individual creativity and contributes to a shared artistic direction;
”Confusion”: remains and integral part of the creative process leading to new and meaningful work.

We will be located in the Maison des Associations.
https://ceramicartandenne.be/a-propos/

“SOULDISK” Horsehair Raku Mishima Technique black clay inlay

2 “SOULDISKS” Horsehair Raku Mishima Technique Black clay inlay.

At the exhibition.

At the exhibition.

My page in the catalogue.

The poster announcement.

Highlighting the diversity of contemporary ceramics, the “Perspectives” Ceramic Art Festival 2025 in Andenne presents a dynamic and richly curated programme with no less than eight exhibitions.

Contact
+32 (0)85 84 36 40
contact@ceramicartandenne.be

Andenne Cultural Center
Rue de la Papeterie, 2A
5300 Andenne
BELGIUM

2025 Brabant Art Fair

Come to the Brabant Art Fair in Tilburg the Netherlands!!!
https://brabantartfair.nl/bezoeken/

The Art Fair is on Saturday March the 22nd and Sunday March the 23rd!!!

The hours are from 11am - 17:30pm.

The address is: NS-Plein, 5014 DA Tilburg; https://brabantartfair.nl/locatie/

My horsehair raku artwork for which I earned 4 Japanese awards: 2 MINO and 2 MASHIKO awards.

The “Gingkos” and “In-Motion” artworks.

“Spread your wings” Horsehair Raku artworks.

In the middle my new addition: The “Soul” disks Horsehair Raku.

2025 Art Fair Eindhoven

This year 2025 I will again participate at the Art Eindhoven Fair on February 8 and 9 from 11am - 5 pm. I will exhibit my colorful slipware, especially the Blue slipware with the Excellence Yixing China prize winning “Swan Teapot”!!

https://arteindhoven.nl/bezoeken/

https://arteindhoven.nl/kunstenaars/

“Swan Teapot and Cup” Blue Slipware.

“Water-of-Life” Slipware Plate

All slipware artwork; especially the blue slipware.

The blue engraved slipware: “Water-of-Life”.

Colored engraved slipware: Dancing sculptures and Emotion Sculptures.

"Azulejo" IAC Members Exposition in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

There was a members TILE exposition of the IAC during the conference in the conference hall in Caldas da Rainha. The tile needed to be 20cm x 20cm with the colors white and blue. Everyone had done an exquisite job and it looked great on the wall.

Tiles suitcase exhibition from the participating conference IAC members.

My “Star” Tile.

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.

Groups exposition at DeNieuweGalerie, Amstelveen

Some of my Horsehair Raku works are included in the summer groups exhibition at TheNewGallery in Amstelveen, The Netherlands.
It is a beautiful exhibition at the mall of “Stadshart” in Amstelveen. If you have some time leftover this summer, please, come and enjoy the gallery.

The groups exposition.

"The “Gingko” Leaves in the window.

The”Mars” bowl and “Swanflower” plate: Horsehair Raku decoration.

The “Flower” Horsehair Raku Bowl.

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.

Bowl “Water-of-Life” Slipware

“Water-of-Life” Slipware Plate

“Water-of-Life” Slipware Vase 2

“Water-of-Life” Waterfall Slipware Vase

“Water-of-Life” Slipware Vase

My booth number 15.

Featured in Dutch Yearbook: JAARBOEK KUNSTENAARS 24

2024 JAARBOEK KUNSTENAARS / ARTISTS YEARBOOK

In this thirteenth edition approximately 150 Dutch visual artists present themselves. This yearbook offers an overview of contemporary artists, painters, sculptors and artists with other disciplines. This book will be consulted by art lovers as a practical reference and will initiated publications and discussions.

On the cover art form the artist winner of the year 2023 Barbara Nanning.

My personal page.

AAF Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam 2023

I would like to invite you to come to the Affordable Art Fair 2023 in Amsterdam where I am part with 5 other artists of “De Nieuwe Galerie” of the Amstelland Artgroup.
https://affordableartfair.com/

The fair is from November 1 - November 5, 2023.

It is open from:
Vernissage:

Wednesday November 1, 17:00 - 22:00 (Official opening)
or
Public Days:

Thursday November 2, 12:00 - 21:30

Friday November 3, 12:00 - 21:30

Saturday November 4, 10:00 - 19:00

Sunday November 5, 11:00 - 18:00.

The address is:

De Kromhouthal, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231, 1021 KP, Amsterdam

The whole set-up: Nanette, Desiree, Hilde, Liesbeth, Swanica, Juliette.

Exposition at the 2nd Taiwan International CHAWAN Festival

I participate in the 2nd Taiwan Chawan Festival from Sept 8 - Sept 17 with 5 chawans.
Look on their website to all the beautiful chawans, teabowls: https://en.twcca.com.tw/products/all/2.htm

Green-Black Slipware Chawan.

Yellow-Blue Slipware Chawan.

Pink-Blue Slipware Chawan.

Kamakura-Red Sakura 2 Chawan.

Kamakura-Red Sakura 1 Chawan.

Cobra Museum en Open Ateliers Amstelveen 2023

Mijn atelier is open op 17 en 18 Juni voor de Open Ateliers Amstelveen 2023 route van 11 uur tot 17 uur georganiseerd door de Amstelland Kunst groep.

Voorafgaand en gedurende is er een CENTRALE EXPOSITIE van de kunstroute deelnemers in het
COBRA MUSEUM in Amstelveen van Vrijdag 9 Juni tot en met Zondag 18 Juni 2023.

Kom alsjeblieft naar het prachtige COBRA MUSEUM die 75 jaar bestaat en geniet van de vele open ateliers!!!

Deze vaas staat in het COBRA museum Amstelveen: “Kraanvogel” Kintsugi Slipware Horsehair Raku Vaas

My workshop is open on June 17 and June 18 for the “Open Ateliers Amstelveen 2023” tour from 11am to 5 pm organised by the Amstelland Kunst groep.

Before and at the same time, there is a CENTRAL EXPOSITION of the participants of the Open workshop tour in the COBRA MUSEUM from Friday June 9 to Sunday June 18, 2023.

Please, come to the beautiful museum which celebrates 75 years existence and enjoy the many open workshops!!!

EXHIBITION AT THE DUTCH LUXURY DESIGN STORE

I will have an exhibition at the Dutch Luxury Design Gallery from April 1 - June 30, 2023.

My artwork will be online for a whole year to enjoy and to buy.

The opening of the exhibition is on April 10, 2023 at 2 pm - 5 pm; 14 hours to 17 hours.
The address is: Voorstraat 1-3, 4116 BC Buren (Gld), Netherlands.

https://dutchluxurydesign.com/nl/nieuw-in-portfolio?sort_options=a.ordering-ASC&start=60

https://dutchluxurydesign.com/en/our-artists/swanica-ligtenberg

This town Buren has a historical connection to the Dutch Royal House of Oranje-Nassau.
https://www.excitinghistory.com/location/buren-oranjestad/

Horsehair Raku Ginko leaves, “Embrace” Emotion Vases.

Horsehair Raku “Spread your Wings”.

“Comforting” and “Happy Together” Emotion Slipware Vases.

“Trumpeteer” Slipware Vases.

EXPOSITION IN THE NATIONAL TREE MUSEUM GIMBORN IN DOORN, NETHERLANDS

De expositie “Ode aan de Natuur”, georganiseerd door de Werkgroep Ode, is geopend in het Nationaal Bomenmuseum Gimborn Arboretum van 8 April tot 4 Juni, 2023.
Voor de 5de keer wordt deze keramiek expositie georganiseerd in de prachtige bomentuin van het museum. 43 keramisten tonen ruim 100 recente werken.

Ik sta daar met drie grote vazen bewerkt met de gegraveerde slipware techniek.

Het is dagelijks geopend van 9.00 tot 19.00 uur. Tussen 11.00 en 17.00 uur geeft een exposant desgevraagd uitleg over de keramiek.

The Dutch Workgroup “Ode” and the National Tree Museum Gimborn organize together for the 5th time a ceramic exposition in this beautiful tree garden of the museum from April 8 to June 4, 2023. 43 ceramic artists show about 100 pieces of work with the theme “Ode to Nature”.

Information flyer.

“Tulipa”, '“poppy”, “Iris” Slipware Vases

“Poppy”, “Iris”, “Tulipa” Slipware vases.

Received "Honorable Mention" for my Trumpeteer Vases

We congratulate you with an Honorable Mention from the jury of the “JaKunst” Organization. This organization promotes the Arts through expositions, competitions, lectures, publications, workshops etc to bring artists in the news and make them known to the people. Yearly 40 artists will get this nomination for their outstanding work.

I received the honorable mention for my “Trumpeteer” Vases.

Met veel plezier feliciteren we u nogmaals met de toekenning van een Eervolle Vermelding!
Jaarlijks kent de Beoordelingscommissie van Jakunst, maximaal veertig Eervolle Vermeldingen toe aan kunstenaars waarvan de leden van de Beoordelingscommissie van mening zijn dat zij uitzonderlijke kunst maken.

Kunstenaars met een Eervolle Vermelding worden met alle egards op de website van Jakunst vermeld. U bent al vermeld: https://jakunst.nl/eervolle-vermeldingen. U maakt deel uit van een selecte groep van hooggewaardeerde Nederlandse kunstenaars. Wij zijn van mening dat u en de andere kunstenaars waaraan een Eervolle Vermelding is toegekend, extra aandacht verdienen bij kunstliefhebbers, kopers en -verzamelaars. En daar zorgen wij voor, met name met verschillende publicaties en een aan uw onderscheiding verbonden publieksverkiezing.

Later dit jaar krijgt u nog nadere berichten over uw Eervolle Vermelding. Met name ook over de aan uw onderscheiding verbonden publieksverkiezing. Voor nu rest ons u nogmaals te feliciteren met de onderstreepte waardering voor uw werk.

Neon-Blue Trumpeteer 38cm/15” high; Green Trumpeteer 50cm/19.5” high; Pink Trumpeteer 31cm/12” high.

Expositie in DeNieuweGalerie in Stadshart Amstelveen

Mijn Emotie vazen staan deze maand in DeNieuweGalerie, wat een pop-up galerie is van de AmstellandKunst groep. Dit is een platform voor beroepskunstenaars die werkzaam zijn in de regio Amstelland met inbegrip van Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Haarlem en Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.
DeNieuweGalerie exposeert het werk van 11 kunstenaars in het Stadshart van Amstelveen (nummer 109, tegenover Paprika en naast de Foot Locker winkels). Daarnaast is er een ‘salonwand’  met veelal klein werk van circa 30 kunstenaars.

Deze expositie is van 27 Maart - 30 April, 2023 met de openings uren van het winkel centrum voor elke dag van 10:00 uur - 18:00 uur, behalve Maandags van 12:00 - 18:00 uur.

My Emotion Artwork is in an exposition in “DeNieuweGalerie”. This is a pop-up gallery of the “AmstellandKunst” artists. It represents professional artists from the “Amstelland” region including Amsterdam, Haarlem, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. DeNieuweGalerie shows the work of 11 artists in the “Stadshart of Amstelveen” (a shopping mall). The exposition also includes a “Salon Wall” with small works: one of about 30 artists.

DeNieuweGalerie

DeNieuweGalerie

DeNieuweGalerie etalage with “In Love” Vases.

Emotion Vases, Transformed Vases and Chawans: Slipware.

“Feeling Happy” vases with Slipware and Kintsugi technique

“In Love” Vases with Slipware technique

“KissieKiss” Vases with Slipware technique.

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.

JaKunst Booklet with my vase on the cover for this exhibition.

NeonBlue, Green and Pink Trumpeteer Vases.

My exhibition stand at the Eindhoven Art Fair.

Start of Affordable Art Fair Oktober 26

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.