exhibition

Weet je nog dat wij  ++ Plustwee een één-dagsverkoopexpositie hebben a.s. ZONDAG 30 SEPTEMBER in de Theeschenkerij Homanshof in Anloo?! Van 11:00 tot 17:00 uur zijn we daar. We noemen het Kunst bij de Thee, maar je kunt er ook heerlijke taartjes bij krijgen! Ik neem ook mijn eigen werk mee (tassen, etuis, armbandjes etc.)

De namen van andere deelnemende kunstenaars zijn:
Janneke Gelling, wollen bedrukte sjaals
Mirjam Kerstholt, beelden
Angelique van Dalfsen, schilderijen
Bernhard van Loon, tekeningen en gedichten
Petra Hartman, sieraden
and Miranda Mulder, beelden van papier maché

In de buurt kun je fantastisch wandelen en fietsen, en het wordt mooi weer!

exclusiviteit... dat is het.

inspiration

Emily Barletta, thread and paper

How does it work, inspiration?
I came across this wonderful work of Emily Barletta. She and I independently came more or less to the same forms.

Dutch sand and woods

my sketches

My form came from studies from Dutch landscape pictures while searching and finding patterns for my ++PLUSTWEE designs. Where did Emily's inspiration come from? Probably not Dutch landscapes?! I think that it's great to have different inspirational sources and end up with more or less the same. It's morphogenetic consciousness or as we say 'it's in the air'...

above: radiolarian, a deep see life form

Of course, these forms are NOT NEW as they are derived from who we are and what we consist of...   which are cells! Cells and especially the deep oceanic life forms interest me a lot lately. I want to make a few screens with cellular forms for printing.

bag preview

colour inspiration from documentary images of containers in a port

detail of textile painting

proven new friend

My first bag since about a year is finished! (see, i've sewn many )
Nowadays I'm happy again sewing bags because of my lovely new sewing machine. My old one (still comfortably on a corner on my working table) just couldn't sew leather which I wanted to try for a long time.
So now a shoulder bag was born today, one with leather bottom and self designed and home printed fabric on top, an adjustable strap (by poppers) from 66 cm to 125 cm, a key clip and three inner pockets, closes with a zipper, €95 excl shipping, incl VAT/BTW. You can order it here.
There's more to come as you can see in the pictures. What do think of  it?

I made a textile painting too. In my student days I used to paint a lot, now I try to make it look the same but with handprinted designs and layers of fabric and stitching.
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And you may congratulate Tineke and her blog Stop:watch here, it's their birthday tomorrow (April 24) :-)

awarded twice

Last week my blog was rewarded the Liebster Blog (favorite blog) Award TWICE!
One award was given by Nelleke of Langius Design and the second by Stephanie of Interieur-Coosje. I'm happy and grateful for it, thank you ladies!

Now I may pass The Liebster Blog Award to 5 other blogs.
I found it a difficult job to select five (and sometimes you don't know how much followers it has*) so I decided to select merely on Inspiration: on their Work, Techniques and used Colours, Subjects and Compostions, the Way they look at things shown in their pictures etc.
(in random order):

My top 5 blogs:

Joanna Rutter
Tsk Tsk 
Anja Mulder
Marjolein Perin 
Puppychick

You may pay the tribute forward, girls!

*The award is given to blogs with less than 200 followers.

If you receive such an award:

- you thank the one who gave you the award by posting a link

- you give the award on to five other blogs (and you let tim know by a comment on their blog)

- you hope that the award will be passed by to other ones

 

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screens

washing out the screen filler

I had to hold up the screen for the others to see and teacher Hennie explains :-)

in the arts center

My very first real screens were made with a huge exposure apparatus... I'm happy and proud. I can't wait to see the print results, can you?

attention

 I just got mail. 

Super, touching...

truly a wonderful gift. 

 

You sure know how to pay attention...

ahead

The first preparations to the next performing arts Festival Noorderzon 2011.  A shop and shadow box co-production between Megan, Annet, Marjolein and me. Marieke deals with the children's workshops this year.

her way

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there it is!

Again a cooperation with Megan (Frank & Gertrude) and Annet (Schenk aandacht)...and maybe even with Marjolein who recently has given birth. 

A concert on Friday January 14 and a shop in my home the next day on Saturday 15th. 
It is going to be nice!




To be honest there won't be too many bags on my part, I'm a bit tired of sowing those...BUT I'll show some completely new items I am (and my coworkers are too) very excited about  ...  stools! 
I'll lift the veil in a couple of days by posting some pictures. 


I hope to meet you in our Pop-Up Gallery!

grand

I bought this grand work of illustrator Tineke Meirink.

And I just noticed that I'm mentioned/featured at Bloesem !
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home is where the art is

My daughters (11 and 14) are diligently working - like the spider outside on eyelevel- on their own handmade jewelry webshop "Kraaloogjes". 
How I love them embarking on such venture.
And then considering that I may not have a down-town workshop anymore ... so where will my art be? 

hoofdletter K

text by Bert Spiertz

House and beautiful work of dear friend Carla Lazaroms. Visit her website here.