July 29th, 2023 the Open Stal art route opened at Oldeberkoop, NL. Meinie Wardenier and Harm Harms from Textiel Instituut Hawar had kindly invited me to exhibit in their gallery. Such a thrilling invitation! Their gallery is beautiful and they are expecting some 10.000 visitors during Open Stal which will be until August 27th.
I'm showing a selection of my work that fits this year's theme of Open Stal, 'Op reis (Travelling)', focussing on the 'travel' aspect of one's life. My exhibition is called Transgression.

Even though I had received the invitation about a month before, I did manage to make two small new works (Transgression 5 and 6, on the right).
The very first day the exhibition was well received and a small work and some books were sold.
I'm really happy with this solo. Some unknown works are on show.

A few impressions of openings and exhibitions.

Edgelander (300 x 140 cm), 7th International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial Riga 'Quo Vadis', LV 2023
Opening 7th Scythia, Ukraine June 2023
Social Bubble 1 (3x4x4 cm) and Social Bubble 2 (3x3.5x3.5 cm), 7th Scythia Ukraine June 2023
Echoes 1-2 (181 x 90 cm) new exhibition QuiltArt, Following the thread, Tuchfabrik, Esch-sur-Sure, L, catalogue available, please contact QuiltArt
Left wing hobby (125 x 88 cm) and Down the drain (114 x 73 cm), new exhibition QuiltArt, Following the thread, Tuchfabrik, Esch-sur-Sure, L
Opening QA-Following the thread, Tuchfabrik Esch-sur-Sure, L, Gabi Mett in the pink trousers
Opening QA-Following the thread, Tuchfabrik Esch-sur-Sure, L, Karina Thompson, Mirjam Pet-Jacobs, Jette Clover, a.o.

Nieuwe Ruimte Kunstenaar van de maand Elsebeth Hoeven (keramiek) heeft 3 kunstenaars uitgenodigd om met haar te exposeren: Ineke van Dongen (papier collages), Teun de Weger (leisteen-glas beelden} en Mirjam Pet-Jacobs (textiel collages). Foto's geven een beeld van de expositie. De werken zijn nog te bekijken op de zondagmiddagen in september, van 12.00 - 17.00 uur. Ik zal op 25 september de hele middag aanwezig zijn.





Opening op zondag 4 september 2022 vanaf 14.00 in de Oranjestraat 38A. Er is muziek tot 16.00 uur
Iedereen is van harte welkom.

As promised I would show a bit of the changes of the Panta rhei panels. In all, I am very satisfied with the result. Hanging in sun, rain, wind and storm, the colours of the fabric changed from strong to soft, some dramatically during the process, these were the inks. The paints on the plastic were sturdier, with the textile paints washing off better than the gouache paints.
The panels had held themselves very well, even survived a storm during which some panels turned around their hanging poles. Easy to fix, nothing was damaged.

Panta rhei the first day - October 3
Panta rhei the last day - October 31
October 7 - October 15 - October 23 (one week in between each step)

Panta rhei, 2021, 15 panels H300 x W50 cm each

Close to the entry deadline I decided to make an outdoor work for Kunstsmullen 2021 Heeze. It was so wonderful that we could exhibit again after this bleak and empty artless period. Two years before I had already thought about the concept intended for an outdoor work, so now I could finally execute it. Which meant making samples, samples and samples…

The idea behind Panta rhei, Greek for 'everything streams', meaning that nothing will stay as it is, that everything will change in the course of time. I have explored this theme by dyeing textiles and painting plastic with non fixed paints and dyes, not making use of chemicals or heat. Rain would slowly (or faster) change the fabrics and plastic, natural inks like Bister or Quinck washing out quickly, Procion and gouache a bit slower. No acrylics of course.
3 weeks for this process to happen could very well be too short, but then, only one big downpour might do it for me. Part of the process is making photos of the installation during the exhibition. I'll post the process in due time.

The installation itself was challenging, getting three 3 m long panels on battens at about 3.5 m in the trees and lifting both sides at the same time. With good help we managed. And I have overcome a slight fear of heights on ladders.