Cat You’ve got your horse-girls. The obnoxious type who pronounce their r’s in the back of their throat who clutch their whips too tightly, that type of girl. And you’ve got your cat-boys. The sweet type who really want to cuddle and caress but who will never admit it not even to the [...]
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Joy, Seduction, To Hell
After that, on March 31st, they will be at the Kunststripbeurs, Janskerk, Utrecht.
Rat, sheep and jackdaws at Hooi
Hooi is a new breakfast and lunch cafe at the Burgemeester Reigerstraat in Utrecht where I often go for a cup of coffee. Or where I take my youngest son for lunch, to lure him away from his computer. It is a friendly place with lots of wood and nice things to look at. I [...]
Art Journaling / mixed media Workshops
Art journaling workshop, 2011 What is art journaling? Art journaling is well known in the US, where I learned about it for the first time, a couple of years ago. An art journal is an illustrated journal. Art journalers often work in books, but you can just as well use sheets of paper, or canvas, [...]
The fair, Hippe Markt Griftpark, juni 2011
The fair is over. The night after the first day the benevolent sister and I both fell asleep soon after we got home - we were sooo tired. The sunday had been warm and the fair overcrowded. Our plans for the decoration were overruled as soon as we arrived because all the booths had to [...]
Art Journaling Workshop
Picture by Juliet de Barbansopn The art journaling workshops in the Bilthovense Boekhandel were great fun. They were part of an Art Weekend called Uit De Kunst where painters, photographers etc held small expositions in stores throughout the city center. In Holland art journaling is a rather unknown phenomenon. Picture by Juliet de Barbanson I [...]
Uit De Kunst Bilthoven, 27 – 28 mei
Stadpers, 18 mei 2011 Sorry English readers.. all this is about the Art Weekend in Bilthoven coming weekend.
Yay, I am teaching an Art Journaling workshop!
In 2007, on a holiday in the US, I picked up a book about art journaling. It was Lynn Perrella’s Artist’s Journals and Sketchbooks. I loved it because it was crafts, not FINE ART. It was about very personal stuff, not big concepts. It was about images AND text. And is was meant to be [...]
Mini-exhibit at Oudegracht 244, Utrecht
Until mid May some of my prints and mixed media work is on view in a locally wellknown ‘window-gallery’ at Oudegracht 244, in Utrechts medieval city center. The pictures give a surround view of the window and the Oudegracht. You can spot the canal under the tree in the last picture! I came across another [...]
Small exhibition
Anyone living near Bilthoven? You can go see some of my stuff (12 pieces) for real at Heleen Hoogenboom’s, who is a very creative silversmith. Till april 28.
Pictures of the opening of Fishes and Birds in Meppel
Drukkerijmuseum Meppel november 19 2010, end of the afternoon Francis forgot to bring her camera so I took pictures – and will just post a few here for fun. No real clever selection, just snap shots. And mainly of us, the participants ourselves, who could make it to Meppel. Caroline Ellerbeck could not, which was [...]
Nov. 19: Official opening Of Fishes And Birds expo in Meppel
For more info on the project in English look here…
Fridge magnet
I just had these cool fridge magnets made.. they are actually the size of a business card, so if you are looking for original business cards, this could be it! Don’t you go running off to work without having properly eaten your breakfast from now on! Or you know what you’ll turn into.
New Beginnings & Giveaway
New beginnings: Rearranging my studio and doing away with the clutter An illo a day for the next month Reopened my little Etsy shop. To celebrate I am giving away my new Sedge Warbler print. To win it go to my Facebookpage here or to the comments under this post and fill in which bird [...]
Scherpenzeel at daybreak
We went back to Scherpenzeel this weekend to visit the Scheene Art Route and to attend a concert at daybreak by Nynke Laverman. It started at 6 AM! Picture taking was not allowed. But sheep, cows and birds woke up during the concert and made themselves heard, which was amusing and charming. Afterwards we [...]
Scheene kunstroute/ Frisian art route
We installed the Fishes and Birds exhibition in Scherpenzeel today. The art route is opening on thursday. Three sign posts with my poetry and pictures got installed along the route while I was there – the soil is very soft in this peat polder. So everyone just jumped onto and hung on the posts [...]
Inge Koenens tweede foto voor Of Fishes And Birds: Icarus
Adembenemend mooi, deze Icarus voor Over vissen en vogelsHier staat hij op Inge’s eigen blog.EnglishIcarus, Inge Koenen‘s second picture for Of Fishes And Birds.I find it breathtakingly beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
Slideshow of the Fishes and Birds Book
Het boek zit in elkaar! Handboekbinder Adriaan Oprins maakte de prachtige doos en het boek zelf.Het is klaar voor de eerste tentoonstelling in Scherpenzeel in augustus, op de Scheene Kunstroute (12/15 en 26/29 augustus).Bij die route hoort trouwens een uniek optreden van de Friese fadozangeres Nienke Laverman – op een nog geheime, bijzondere plek op [...]
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