Marieke Pauwels

One year later and again preparing an art history class about ceramics. At the moment I am reading about the work of Belgian ceramist Marieke Pauwels.
This work (Parnassus) remains my favorite. The mountain on the turntable (the turntable of her father who is also a ceramist). And that landscape on the wall in
combination with that wallpaper, that also becomes a landscape.
Maybe I also like it because you normally do not make sculptures on a turntable but functional pots.
If you want to see the mountain moving on the turntable, look at her website.

Nick Hannes

This week we saw two expositions in bozar Brussels:
Jeff wall en Beyond the document.
The two pictures are from the Belgian Photographer Nick Hannes
I like his work.

Scotland: casks for the whisky

Of course we were also there for the single malt whisky. We visited several distilleries. But we were most impressed by a place we discovered purely by accident. In this place they make the casks for the spirit. You could see the coopers at work in the workplace and we got a lot of information about the making of.

Scotland: bad weather

But for me, better than tropical heat: mist, a lot of rain and cold temperatures.

Maybe that is why I love this Rainy Day mini blanket. Again from Donna Wilson :

Tree drawings

From our garden, we look at a lot of trees, especially weeping willows, and we are often very fascinated by the movements and noise they make when it is windy.
Maybe that is why I love these tree drawings from Tim Knowles
found here (jokemijn.blogspot)

Some notes from here and there

 I like

this kitchen with that collection of postcards, found here (the clutter.blogspot.com)


























and the color combination in these towels made by Kitty van der Mijl Dekker, found here (ilseacke.blogspot.com)


























and look at this amazing trees, found here(caromontha.blogspot.com):
foto's from Russell Watkins.
You can find more information about that strange phenomenon on his blog here .

Brushes

I saw this collection here: it is the brush museum of LABOUR AND WAIT.
If you like to see more brushes:
look here (mieke willems)
and here  (atswim-two-birds)
and also here where you can see a very beautiful photo

and another brushmaker and his shop

And the brushes are taking my thoughts to something else:
the work of the photographer KOICHIRO DOI.

Timber!

Back home from the Netherlands. Learning to make spoons at such a place in the woods: it was just brilliant!
We made them out of birch-wood. The most difficult part is learning to use the tools and in the beginning it is better to be careful because everything is razor-sharp. So I took it slow.
That is why I still have to finish some of the spoons. I hope I find the time to do that soon.
But my first spoon is ready and I am a bit proud of that first tiny creation.

Twee ateliers

Met klei bezig zijn op een draaischijf of pottenbakkerswiel:
zo ziet het eruit
en zo voelt het.
Ik vond al deze atelierfoto's op de website  THE MAKERS, een fotoproject van Jennifer Causey:
kijk hier voor het keramiekatelier
en hier voor het textielatelier.

Schorten

Mijn grote liefde voor schorten: ik draag er bijna altijd één
foto's van August Sander
herinneringen aan een opa die kleermaker was
de schoonheid van een lay-out en een patroon in papier
...
het zijn verschillende redenen waarom dit boek,
Book of Aprons for Men
gezien hier en hier
mij interesseert.