
exposition summer 2019
From today july 11 till august 11 my wallhangings are to see in the windmill ¨de Windlust¨ in Wassenaar together with sculpture from Mieke Heitling and woodcuts from Hanna de Haan.
From today july 11 till august 11 my wallhangings are to see in the windmill ¨de Windlust¨ in Wassenaar together with sculpture from Mieke Heitling and woodcuts from Hanna de Haan.
a collage and papercut, paper felted and felted with wool.
Several years ago I bought seeds of Genista tinctoria or dyer´s broom. Only a few germinated. I know now it is better to soak the seeds a little bit before sowing. Three plants survived although the circumstances were not ideal in a pot on my balcony. When I got an …
Wallhanging called ¨under water¨. Papercut and collage with colored mulberry paper, joomchi, and felted with wool. The colores bleed and blend and the resulting colors are more interesting to me than the original colors. It is almost a monochrome now though I had put in the form of a jellyfish …
top spindle: naturally dyed drent wool, dyed with common reed bottom spindle: natural grey scottish I ´ve made a small shu bao from scratch: crumpled brown paper and a decorated paper bag, an end of paper chord and a button for closure. And glue. It has 15 compartments like the …
local big heathsheep, spindle spun. This is the second half of the indigo dyed wool from this post. The first half was used for a felt wallhanging. It was quite a journey from growing the japanese indigo plants from the seed, harvesting and extracting the pigment from them. Washing the …
This piece shows the natural pigments that I extracted last year, mostly from plants that were in my surrounding and garden. Birchleafs and willow, dahlia, hawthorn and tagetes and indigo. When I saw the dyed wools together it was a reflection of the plants and the dyeing. The colors form …
weaving with handspun grey scottish and donated white handspun.
Small weaving on the frame, and guilty pleasures: pink and white feathery things, all made from donated handspun. I have a vague plan for something more elaborated for both.