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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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)!!!
“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).
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
It is about a week ago I left France and the ceramics residency ended kind of abruptly because of the Corona virus crisis. Residents left earlier. Fortunately, all the projects were fired, finished and critiqued and we had our last dinner together.
Dr. Wendy Gers accepted me for this Rise Residency 2020 in Southern France for coaching a group of people coming from over the world to deepen research in ceramics and strengthen our art expression. And how to make ourselves stronger and manifest in the art world.
She is a very friendly, open and generous woman. She guides and helps you finding your way and supporting you in every way. She sees your needs and pushes you to discover new and different ways with a vast knowledge of how the art world works with all its artists.
She understands groups dynamics, is very patient and finds a way to make it work for everybody in the group.
For me she was a great support and gently nudged me in a direction I found for my art expression which I can continue to use in my future work, helped me with my publicity and how to get more out there.
Thank you Wendy for this wonderful residency.
I would like to thank Lauren Kearns, the owner of the studio. She organizes international artist residency exchange programs: the IARE. She helped and guided us in any way possible to make the residency a successful experience.
And then of course my fellow residents who deepened this experience with many knowledgeable conversations, helpful hints, tears and laughter!
A multi-colored slip and underglaze engraved stoneware plate.
Some final products.
A multi-colored slip and underglaze engraved stoneware vase.
A multi-colored slip and underglaze engraved porcelain vase.
A multi-colored slip and underglaze engraved stoneware vase.
3 engraved works and the yellow plate decorated with underglazes.
Having fun with rectangles to build a sculpture and I used the new decoration technique.
The collaboration dish from Kara, Wendy and I.
During the weekend of March 7 and 8 we visited some museums in Marseille and Nice. Wendy organized that the curator Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff showed us around the exhibition “Voyage, voyage” in the MUSEM of Marseille. Artist Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac showed us her works in the Terra Amata museum and her exhibition in the Mamac Museum in Nice. We did go to the MAEGHT Museum St. Paul de Vence: a modern art museum and sculpture garden.
In the MAMAC Museum in Nice.
Representation of porcelain chards fired on different temperatures and impressed with Venuses.
The line wall drawing is made in situ with charcoal. This is prove of human life and representation of their world more than 30.000 years ago.
Marc Chagall
These are some works from the MAEGHT museum St. Paul de Vence
Alberto Giacometti
Joan Miro
Alexander Calder
A guest exhibition of Ra’anan Levy in the MAEGHT Museum. I liked it because of all the perspectives.
Borders, migration, mass tourism… these days, questions about travel, exile and getting from one place to another are recurring themes in the act of creating art. The exhibition “Voyage Voyages” invites us to feel the creative immensity that finds a natural home at the Mucem in Marseille and which, since it opened, has favoured a dialogue between cultures.
Like Max Ernst many artist find refuge along the French Riviera during the 2nd World War.
Near the MUSEM Museum.