Installations and Outside Art
I really like to make (temporary) big works or installations to a route, exposition of in public space. A theme of minimal demands of the location a tempting to make something of it. I like to dare myself to use new material and fit it all in the environment and to the wish of people living nearby.
dated 2009 until 2025
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We are alle astronauts
20257 glass objects of orange with blue glass as pattern for castle Bergh.
Chickentractor
2024Installation of wood, metal and glass. At art route Hackfort Vorden 2024.
The secret life of the dragonfly
2017Attending Fine Art price La Lecq 2017 of the art club Krimpener Kunstwaard. Your work had to fit within a white box, nothing to stick out. Here kinetic art, two glass dragonflies of paté de verre and a glass hand, sandcast. And two found peelings of dragonflies.
Design order Facade art Melanchton Rotterdam
2017At the end of June 2017 I was choosen to design an artist impression of a concrete art piece in 3 to be placed at the front of the new school of Melanchton Crooswijk.
Is there anybody out there
20163 Chiffon silk wall hangings with handfelted Merinowool image of a radiotelescope. Here hanging in the church Johannis in Lekkerkerk during the show 'Festival of de Mind' May 2016. Local broadcast RTV Krimpenwaard made live report of it:
The Gulf Gouderak
2015
Art in Public Space. In order of counsel of Ouderkerk (March 2014). Make a artwork in center of Gouderak as a goodbuy present for the citizens of Gouderak, alone or together with artist of Gouderak.
Made from October 2014 till July 10 2015, together with Ilse Breen, creative coach, and many volunteers. Artwork is made of basaltstones and glass mosaic. It respresent, seen from top the curve of the river IJssel just where village Gouderak is situated. Pictures made bij Jan Trouwborst.
The Polder Model
2015Contour, grassland and waterlines in the Krimpenerwaard. Made of Bullseyeglass in tackfusion placed in Plexiglass with lamps. To Fine Art contest of La Lecq 2015. Exposed in De Zaag at Krimpen aan de Lek.
Traffic circle art Ouderkerk
2015
Project Traffic circle Ouderkerk 2013-2015. Design-crowdfunding-licences-building-place. All to read on blog (dutch)
Textile festival
2015
Textile Festival Leiden May 13-16 2015
Exhibition of felt and silk at Wolkyshop (shoes), Nieuwe Rijn 15, Leiden 6 Felt blue tubalar cases at the ceiling, 3 silk cloths in window display and wall, 6 felt and glass eyes in de door display and 5 felt witchhats and 2 romantic pictures in the streetwindow displays.
The Bookcote
2014Art in Public Space. In order of counsel of Ouderkerk (March 2014). Make a artwork in center of Lageweg as a goodbuy present for the citizens of Lageweg, alone or together with artist of Lageweg. Made from October 2014 till December 15 2014, together with speechperformer Stella Speksnijder. It is a small booklibrabry called Bookcote along the shellpath close to the road Lageweg and two large Open Pictureframes. The frames are painted by the schoolkids of Lageweg. Photo's are of Jan Trouwborst.
Mosaic Musiccenter
2014
Art in Public Space. In order of citycounsel of Ouderkerk (March 2014). Make a picture in our Muziektent cq Musiccenter.
Dreamjourney Shipyard Duijvendijk
2011Dreamjourney exhibition Shipyard Duijvendijk Krimpen aan den IJssel 2011 website My journey to Lourdes located in the dark engineroom. I placed candles with blacklight, paintings with glow-in-the-dark paint, at the ceiling washingupbrushes dipted in glow-in-the-dark paint and visitors coming inside by opening the black curtain found wooden chairs, greorian singing and the smell of incense.
Art route Green Heart
2009
Art route 'The ratcatcher' or 'In seven ditches' in the Achterbroek Juni 9-July4 2009 3x Threeside Piramid. Polyester relief and textile and acrylic paint.
In the Krimpenerwaard (NL) a great part of this polder (North-West) will be swamplike. As a result of this de trees will standing in the water, the cows will descending in the grass fields because of holes of the bisamrats and this will create a ideal habitat for the bisamrats, they will grow because of lack of natural enemies.