22 Dutch Ceramic and Glass artists showing their most beautiful works in a booklet “Ceramics and Glass, Art with Character” made by the “Jakunst-team” directed by David Polak.
Cover of “Keramiek en Glas” cover
Inside of Cover.
Inside the booklet.
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.
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.
Throwing the base on the wheel.
The second part put on the base.
Finished the form.
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.
Scratching off the back.
The second engraving of different size circles.
I put on the pink slip and scratched it partly off.
The “Iris” glazed vase.
The “Trumpet” Vase: black slip base.
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
Painted and scratched the green slip.
The end result: bisque and clear glaze fired “Trumpet” Vase.
I'm accepted into the IAC:
"It is our great pleasure and honor to announce that your application has been accepted. We welcome you as a new Member of the International Academy of Ceramics. We congratulate you on this achievement which rewards your passion for ceramics."
I feel thankful for all my supporters and jurors in helping me become a member of the IAC.
The IAC has its headquarters in Geneva. It was founded in 1952. It connects artists in the field of ceramics, designers, galleries in 74 countries across all continents.
The goal of the IAC is to stimulate friendship and communication between professionals in the field of ceramics in all countries. The IAC develops and encourages all forms of international cooperation to promote ceramics and to encourage and maintain production at the highest level of quality in all ceramic cultures.
I studied there for my ceramics for a couple of years in 1981 at the school Les Arts Decoratifs: 40 years ago! Next year, it will be the 70th anniversary and 50th congress of the organization and so it is wonderful to go back there and be part of the exhibition and the conference!
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
“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
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
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.
Tomorrow and Sunday, Nov 17 + 18, I will open my SwanCeramics Art Gallery officially and participate with the national open studio weekend: “Landelijk Atelier weekend” in which more than 400 galleries participate.
I will be open from 10:00am to 5pm each day and will give throwing demonstrations. Also, you could try yourself if you would like!
I hope you all come and will enjoy my artwork!
I announced the weekend in my village’s newspaper Ouder-Amstel Weekblad and in the neighboring town Amstelveens Nieuwsblad.
The Dutch National Studio weekend 2018.
My sign in my yard.
A good start with advertising! :)
In the Amstelveen Nieuwsblad.
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?
Last Friday I went with 2 friends to the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in the city Leeuwarden, a 2-hour drive from Amsterdam. It is home to some of the world's most beautiful ceramics. From a world-renowned collection of Chinese porselain to the rich Art Nouveau ceramics collection, artists such as Karel Appel and Picasso and exciting exhibitions with contemporary art and design.
The museum is housed in the 18th-century palace of Marie Louise van Hessen-Kassel, Princess of Orange-Nassau.
Leeuwarden this year 2018 is the European Capital of Culture!
The museum is big and airy and beautiful!
Just look at the pictures!
A Dutch Friesian landscape painted with cobalt like the Delft Blue ware.
Some beautiful Japanese Satsuma Porcelain ware.
So many beautiful tiles and of course the Dutch ships are magnificent!
Some Friesian low fire red clay ware decorated with color slibs.
There was this special IN MOTION Exhibition. The HIGHLIGHT was the installation of Celeste Boursier-Mougenot. it was ASTOUNDING!! He plays on the senses with "Variations" installation, consisting of white porcelain bowls floating in a basin filled with intense blue water. It is a feast for the eyes and interplay of sounds like bells.
Just BEAUTIFUL!!! I forgot to take a picture, but please, watch and listen to this movie!!! https://youtu.be/KdIZDkuBey8
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