1972-1974 Visual Arts – Art School ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)1974-1976 Visual Arts – Art School Tilburg (NL)1976-1979 Sculpture – Art School Antwerp (B)Although trained as a sculptor, glass always was and still is my material. In my concept based work I like...
Read More 1972-1974 Visual Arts – Art School ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
1974-1976 Visual Arts – Art School Tilburg (NL)
1976-1979 Sculpture – Art School Antwerp (B)
Although trained as a sculptor, glass always was and still is my material. In my concept based work I like to take the inherent properties of glass such as resilience, flexibility and fragility to the extreme.
“Glass has many faces. It’s formidably hard but also delicate and frivolous, dense but also transparent. It’s these unexpected contradictions that make not only life but also glass fascinating to me.
For as long as I can remember, I “think” in glass. Partly because of this I know to use this dualism when forming my ideas. I find it fascinating to search for the limits of glass and, when needed, even push the envelope a bit.
Contradiction is life”.
Selection:
2003 “Donjon” - Prize-winning installation - Art competition - Horn (NL)
2004 “Perpendicular” – Installation commissioned by the City Museum of Roermond (NL)
2005 “Wolfs iron” – Gallery Oxo - London (UK)
2006 “Landscape Impression” – Museum voor Vlakglas Ravenstein (NL)
2006 “Wolfs iron” – National Glass Centre - Sunderland (UK)
2007 “Landscapes” – Access Art Gallery Aruba (Caribbean)
2008 “Vade Retro”- Installation commissioned by the City Museum of Roermond (NL)
2008 “Hubada” – Museum of Glass Art Alcorcon - Madrid (ES)
2009 Jewelry – CCAA Glasgalerie – Cologne (G)
2009 “Hubada” – Crafts of Catalonia – Barcelona (ES)
2009 “L’Invitation” - Prize-winning installation - Art competition (G)
2010 “Caesalpinia Holodiscus” - Glasplastik und Garten - Munster (G)
2010 „L’Invitation“ and „Planetoids“ – Glass Connections 2019 (L)
2011 “Killing Field”- Installation - Maison de la Culture - Diekirch (L)
2011 “Killing Field” selected for the New Glass Review 32 Corning Museum of Glass (USA)
2012 “Glass Attack” – Performance - Europäisches Museum für Modernes Glas - Coburg (G)
2012 “Tile-it-Up” – innovative idea for recycling glass - Glass Heap Challenge – International Festival of Glass Stourbridge (UK)
2013 “Wind & Water” installation icw Ciro Abath – commissioned by Reina Beatrix Airport - Aruba (Caribbean)
2014 “Structure One” selected for the New Glass Review 35 CMoG (USA)
2014 „Killing Field“ / „Tableaux Floral“ / „L’Invitation“ / „Landscape Impressions” – Glasmuseum Immenhausen (G)
2014 “Killing Field” published in “Kunst aus der Flamme. Zeitgenössische Lampenglas in Europa“
2015 „Tableaux Floral“ – Pyramid Gallery – York (UK)
2015 Publication Neues Glas / New Glass
2016 „Killing Field“ / „Caesalpinia Holodiscus“ – Galerie Welti – Düsseldorf (G)
2017 “Killing Field” - Installation - New Acquisitions Ernsting Stiftung - Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding - Coesfeld-Lette (G)
2017 “Forbidden Fruit” - Installation - Galerie Welti - Düsseldorf (G)
2017 “Forbidden Fruit” / “Tableaux Floral” / “Landscape Impressions” - International Glass Festival Luxembourg (L)
2017 “L’Invitation” - Gorcums Museum - Gorinchem (NL)
2017 “Rroaring Glass” - Performance - Gorcums Museum - Gorinchem (NL)
2018 “La Grande Guerre” - Installation - Waldmuseum - Zwiesel (G)
2018 „Rroaring Glass” – Performance – Schoonhoven (NL)
2018 „Structure One“ - Installation - Médiacité – Liège (B)
Work in Collection:
Gorcums Museum – Gorcum (NL)
City Museum – Roermond (NL)
Deutsches Museum - Munich (G);
Glasmuseum - Immenhausen (G);
Glasmuseum - Coesfeld-Lette (G);
“Donjon”; “Perpendicular”; “Vade Retro” and “Structure One” are installations where, like a house of cards, sheets of glass are loosely stacked upon each other, without any glue or ribbon or whatsoever.
The installations “Killing Field”; “Wind & Water”; “Forbidden Fruit” and “La Grande Guerre” are of a completely different nature. Here single items are made on a torch or gloryhole and put together to make a bigger total.
Whereas “L’Invitation” is predominately made in a glass casting technique, the “Landscapes”; “Landscape Impressions” and the “Tableaux Floral” are made in the glass fusing technique. For the “Tableaux Floral” the fusing technique is combined with a lampworking or hot glass technique.
Besides my work as an autonomous glass artist I’m also an instructor in glass techniques and organize classes and lectures about innovative glass techniques and design in the Netherlands and abroad.
