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Tussen Kunst en Kerst

Op 15 december a.s. zal de kunstmarkt Tussen Kunst en Kerst plaats vinden in het Art Centre Aalsmeer. Veel van mijn collega-kunstenaars zullen ook hun atelier openen met een aanbod van grote en kleine geschenken, […]

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Coming back from the Museum Market

Last month Kees and I rented a stall at the Museum Market in Amsterdam. We are looking back at a good day: we had friends coming by, we talked to strangers about our art, we […]

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Virtual Art Summit ’23: layering with stencils

I’ve participated in the Virtual Art Summit 2023 which hosted by Kellee Wynn Studios. She started organizing these summits during the first year of the pandemic, this is the fourth and Kellee’s final year. Kellee’s […]

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Commission: Portrait of the Theologian of the Fatherland

One of my colleagues at the marketing departement of VU University asked me to take some portraits of Katya Tolstaya, who was chosen as Theologian of the Fatherland recently. Katya’s wish was to pose in […]

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Slow Art Party: Encircle

This week’s shape in the Slow Art Party was Encircle. You can clearly see why Amy choose this word for this shape. We just made simple brush strokes in watercolour in a circular movement and […]

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Slow Art Party: Row

This week’s pattern in the Slow Art Party was Row. You can clearly see why Amy choose this word for this pattern. We made simple brush strokes in watercolour in a straight and elongated movement […]

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Bookmaking: Finished journal with kraft paper

Oh yeah, I had a lot of fun making my first book for The Art Journal Project with Michelle Schratz. I used up a little of the enormous heap of kraft paper that I’ve been […]

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Commission: Capturing performance of ‘Fragile Earth’ by Antjie Krog

Over the last few weeks I had four photography commissions, in this blogpost I’ll give you an impression of the last one which took place on Saturday, 15 April. I captured the performance of the […]

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Slow Art Party: Orb

This week’s botanical pattern in the Slow Art Party was Orb. I don’t remember why Amy choose this word for this pattern, maybe it refers to the round shapes of the leaves. First we wet our small […]