After many  years spent in writing, painting and etching , using reams of paper, I ended up working with porcelain.   Although I like making “normal” cups and plates, tiles with fishes, birds and fountains,  I like to experiment constantly and than, somehow,  I find myself using the material like paper or trying to make it look like paper; printed on, incised and folded... .  
I am fascinated by the fragility but also the strength of this ceramic material and, perhaps due to the history of my journey through the world of art, I love  to transfer the qualities of paper to this material to resemble paper, crumpled. covered with writing and folded,  exploiting its transparency, its different surface qualities,  its capacity to catch and preserve  colours on the inside as well as on the outside , underneath  and over its glossy, satin or matt skin.
I stretch it, paint it, fold it, going to the limits of its strength, fragility and transparency.
And it often leaves me in desperation because of its fragility.   It leaves me breathless with the feeling of happiness to see its fragile intensity.

Out of love for flowers I started my biology studies in Wageningen (the Netherlands) (with philosophy taught by A.M.T. Meyer), in the meantime I followed etching courses in Amsterdam, bronze casting (lost wax) in Wageningen (with Ben Joosten) and drawing from models at evening courses at the Minerva Art Academy of Groningen out of love for art...

For several years I worked in the BKR, the dutch government work agreement for artists, until going abroad with my husband and three children.

Work ( etchings, paintings, art books and lately ceramics) is in various public places in Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Chile, Australia, South Korea.

Poetry, short stories and translations are published in the literary review 'Hollands Maandblad'.

Ed. Cadans published a book of my poetry (Carthago in het middaglicht).

Several other publications (poetry and art books).

In Italy, where I'm living now, several tile panels and a fountain were made on commission in public places near Milan.




2009:

  • selected for the Europapreis (Westerwald - Germany)

  • Biennial Korea (Cebiko 2009)
  • selected for L'Alcora (Spain)
  • selected for the biennial of Aveiro (Portugal)
  • selcted for the biennial of Manises (Spain)

 

 

2008:

An entry from the "Folded Love Letters series" won the Accesit in CERCO 2008 (Zaragoza, Spain),

  • selected for the Biennale de L'Alcora, Spain

  • selected for the Biennale de L'Esplugues, Spain

  • selected for the Gold Coast Award 2008, Australia

  • selected for the 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 (CEBIKO), Korea.

  • publication in Lark books - 500 ceramic sculptures (spring 2009)