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 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.
“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.
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
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”!!!!
“Different Views”
“Different Views”
“Comfort”
“Feeling Proud”
“Sad”
“Let’s Dance” 4
“Let’s Dance” 1
“Let’s Dance” 3
Composition of 6 Teabowls/Chawan, Matcha powder tea boxes/Chaire, wisk/Chasen and tea scoop/Chashaku: colored slipware.
“Blue” Slipware Chawan Teabowl
Composition of 2 Teabowls/Chawan, Matcha powder tea box/Chaire, wisk/Chasen and tea scoop/Chashaku: colored slipware.