TRAINING

1970-1976               

Higher vocational training as a textile design teacher, Teacher Training College Rotterdam

 

1977-1979

Montessori training at the Pedagogical Academy Rotterdam

 

1987-1996       

Private lessons in portrait and life figure drawing from Gijs Voskuyl, former lecturerer at the Rotterdam School of Art

 

1997-1999

Summer workshops in chiselling, Werkendam

 

1999-2000                   

Course in healing drawings and mandala drawing
by Lisa Borstlap, Zutphen

 

1999-2001

Sculpting workshops and courses in stone and clay, Van Beek Art Supplies, Rotterdam

 

1999-2001

Courses in mandala and chakra drawing, Rotterdam

 

2000             

Course in chakra drawing by Lisa Borstlap, Zutphen

 

2001                        

Workshop working in soapstone and serpentine
by Marian Puntman

 

2003                       

Workshop working in alabaster at De Beeldhouwwinkel, Scheveningen

 

2004

Workshop bronze casting at De Beeldhouwwinkel, Scheveningen

 

2008

Weekend workshop felting at Sharit

 

2011

Workshop woodworking, Middelheim (Belgium)

 

2012

Workshop dyed wool and cardboard, Middelheim (Belgium)

 

2016

Felting workshop by Linda Dezijn

 

 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 

1969-1970                     

Primary school teacher of handicrafts & textile design, Rotterdam

 

1980-1987

Primary school crafts teacher, Schiedam

 

1990

Office colour consultant, Utrecht

 

2002                                 

Start-up of own studio d’Arteliers in Rotterdam and Bergen op Zoom, where I gave courses and sold materials

 

As of 2003                    

Open days at d’Arteliers with exhibitions of my students’ as well as my own work

 

2012 / 2014

Private workshops in water soluble fabric, Rotterdam

 

 

STUDY TRIPS

 

1981

Weaving trip to Hyrynsalmi (Finland)

 

1993

Biennale Venice (Italy)

 

1998

Visit to Aubusson Weaving Centre (France)

 

2004 

Art trip to the Royal Cities of Morocco

 

2007

Documenta Kassel (Germany)

 

2014

Sculpture Garden Insel Hombroich

 

2014

Sculpture Garden Cerisy-la-Foret (France)

 

2014

Visit to the Tapis de Bayeux, Normandy (France)

 

2017

Documenta Kassel (Germany)