
Porcelain.
I stretch it, paint it, fold it, going to the limits of its strength, fragility and transparency.
It often leaves me in desperation because of its fragility.
It often leaves me in desperation because of its fragility.
It leaves me breathless with the feeling of happiness to see its fragile intensity.
15.9.09
Vase

13.9.09
Summer Treasures

12.9.09
cushion brooch
Without my kiln, for a while, finally I mounted some of the smaller pieces, that I keep 'collecting'; my trials and errors and my color- and form tests, these test pieces somehow manage to start a life of their own as jewelery pieces or sometimes as little animals. Maybe because I find it really difficult to throw anything away.. (one never knows if they could turn into something...) and because these small scale trials inspire and keep me going... If they turn out interesting, I try to find out other possibilities. The cushions brooches I have been making for a while, have three layers of thin porcelain, the bottom layers are closed, so in baking they 'rise' nicely!. (I just made an appletart for Sanne's birthday, so this phrase is in style..) and the third layer has holes for the 'pins' and pearls and the stitching.

7.9.09
earrings

23.8.09
older events
Honorable mention 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO), Korea
Biennial of Manises 2009 (Spain)
Biennial of Aveiro 2009 (Portugal)
L'Alcora 2009 (Spain)
"Folded Love Letters series" 2ndpremium CERCO 2008 (Zaragoza, Spain)
L'Alcora 2008, Spain
Biennale de L'Esplugues 2008, Spain
Gold Coast Award 2008, Australia
Argillà 2008 Fair (Faenza)
Fiera della Ceramica 2008 (Firenze)
(Publication Lark Books “500 ceramic sculptures” (spring 2009)

23.7.09
Museu de Cerâmica de Aveiro

"Tokens of Love" (a triptych)
will be in the Museu de Aveiro (Portugal)
from 3 October until 15 November 2009

11.7.09
Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora

“I Promised You a Rose Garden”,
is exhibited from 9 July until 6 September 2009
in the Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora,
Spain.

10.7.09
25.6.09
ribbed 'paper' cup and saucer

18.6.09
waterlily; white with red, blue and bronze

17.6.09
in the shade of the trees
it is summer and terribly warm and it didn't seem a good idea
to heat the kiln..... but these days I had to....
so it was better to leave my atelier alone
and to stay under the shady trees..

16.6.09
I promised you a Rose Garden

"I promised you a rose garden"
(detail)
selected for L'Alcora 2009 (Spain)
"...I never promised you a rose garden, along with the sunshine,
there's gotta be a little rain sometimes...", says the song..
But what if I dìd promise you a Rose Garden...??
Maybe with a little love and fantasy my fragile roses will be
strong enough to create all on their own a beautiful garden with
all the fragrances of spring and summer ...
(and of autumn and winter too..!)

2.5.09
Korea & Westerwald
Etichette: foto ceramica
Cebiko 2009,
Exhibition 2009,
Folded Love letters,
Waterlily,
Westerwald

30.4.09
picaflores
'picaflores' or hummingbirds or 'colibrì';
maybe the spanish name is the nicest: it
shows them going inside a flower
and drinking the nectar..
these 'picaflores' are made of porcelain with forged silver
as earrings, they fly near the almost-open-flower-necklace.
I made them a while ago; between cups and bowls
I play and try things out with small designs like
these birds (that flew in my chilean garden)
or like the more abstract ribbed 'bronze' shell,
that is a part of the necklace.

22.4.09
at work

this picture was made with a phone camera
by someone in the garden at night..... :-)
I like especially working late in my atelier, at those hours
when everything seems quiet...

28.3.09
vase brooch

10.3.09
Tokens of Love

8.3.09
flowering vase for Pieterke

4.2.09
a taste of springtime..

21.1.09
a taste of... porcelain!

14.1.09
large colored bowl

5.1.09
'frozen' cup with red flowers

19.12.08
light traveling bag - a christmas wish

light traveling bag brooch; a cup for drinking,
a leaf for shadow, a flower for perfume
and two wings to go flying wherever you want!

7.11.08
folded bowls


porcelain bowls
Ø 13 cm., h. 5 cm.
very thin, inside glazed,
the outside oxide paintings are visible from the inside

17.10.08
'frozen bowl' with bronze
Etichette: foto ceramica
ceramics to use (plates/cups/ vases)

6.10.08
we live forever...

very thin plate and bowl, porcelain, with incisions, light blue glaze
they are so thin and light that they were almost blown away
by the wind on the Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Firenze...
Etichette: foto ceramica
ceramics to use (plates/cups/ vases)

12.9.08
'frozen' - white plate and white bowl with red rim
Etichette: foto ceramica
ceramics to use (plates/cups/ vases)

11.9.08
sweet milk or cream - with wings
Etichette: foto ceramica
ceramics to use (plates/cups/ vases)

10.9.08
small round bowls with a golden rim and a flower (brooch) with silver
Etichette: foto ceramica
ceramics to use (plates/cups/ vases)

9.9.08
Argillà 2008 Faenza

my stand at Argillà and some visitors
(also a very small visitor)
more about Argillà 2008 here.. (click)

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