KOOKS 4: Oceans of time by Cirque de Pepin

KOOKS 4: Oceans of time by Cirque de Pepin

Just a stone’s throw from the Fries Museum, Galerie de Vis surprises passers-by this summer with the curious world of “Cirque de Pepin”. From 15 June to 23 August, the The Hague artist Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk exhibits in the Etalage Leeuwarden at Zaailand a wonderful experience with ceramic sculptures, paintings and drawings. Part of […]

Powerlifting and two broken backs

Powerlifting and two broken backs

Finally, it stands. One of the two large vases that I painted in Jingdezhen, China in December 2018. After quite a long journey (in terms of distance as well as in life experience), a lot of powerlifting, two broken backs (sorrysorry Lenny and Mark), and a slightly bruised left wrist (myself, left-handed), it finally arrived […]

Jingdezhen 2018

Jingdezhen 2018

From December 8 until December 29, 2018 I was in China. Most of the time in the porcelain capital Jingdezhen, and only a few days in Shanghai. In Jingdezhen I painted two large scale blue and white vases in a small and cold but rather awesome factory pretty far from Downtown Jingdezhen. Fantastic time and […]