Gallery concept

Art and culture contribute to meaning, self-confidence, personal development, participation and positive health, and invite behavioural change. Various businesses have opted for the gallery concept. We too now have 60 works of art for sale.

We would like to introduce you to the artists exhibiting with us:

In 2002 the residential care/nursing home where I work as a technician was one of the first to get a butterfly garden (Vlindertuin), funded by the VSBFonds. This was also the period when digital photography was on the rise.

Since then, my camera has become indispensable. The butterfly garden got me hooked on photography and I started capturing the butterflies and flowers. After that came landscape photography.

I lived near the Wadden area, which became a place for me to take photographs. Capturing the Wadden area in my own way: pure! The Wadden material (wood) that I found on my trips I took home and used to present my photos in.

Nowadays I also present my work on various photo papers, forex, MDF, in wood and still in finds from nature. My first teacher was Ton Aartsen, visual artist. He taught me to look and to move with the camera. Ton: “Walk towards the subject and around it, look, and then take the photo.” My other teacher was Gijs van Gent, a photojournalist for renowned daily newspapers and a street photographer. Gijs van Gent taught me to experiment and to get my teeth into the subject until the photographic image is right.

Now my photographic work is crossing the Wadden Sea to hang in De Vlindertuin. From Vlindertuin to Vlindertuin, how wonderful is that!

Website: harmenhwestra.nl - Ryptsjerk

She works as an independent transition artist, with nature as her source of inspiration. “Every aspect of nature has beauty and function, and is connected to the greater whole. That touches me, and I try to translate it into my art, also in light of the challenges of our time.”

She combines her background as an organisational psychologist with her artistic fascination for everything to do with natural fibres and colour nuances. Her work is about the power of nature, about time, attention and connection. It invites you to look differently at what is self-evident and what seems unfamiliar.

She turns handmade paper from plant materials, plant-dyed wool and botanically printed textiles into works of art that reflect the relationship between the client and their surroundings. For projects in government, education and care, as a Connecting Artist she involves groups dealing with transition and renewal in making art. She then uses her natural materials and artisanal working processes as a means of participation and co-creation. In this way she lets participants experience what space, time and attention do to human relationships, and invites them to make new connections.

She is regularly invited to give an inspiring talk or poetic presentation and to tell about her art of natural renewal.

On her own website suzanbosch.com you can read more about her activities.

He is a teacher at the Dockinga College in Ferwert and is also active as a visual artist. I studied at Ubbo Emmius and Academie Minerva. In the past I made many wall and ceiling paintings commissioned by Heineken. But I also had my own course centre, atelier de Brêge in Metslawier. Now I spend more time in front of the class and still take on a commission now and then. That can vary greatly, from free commissions, portrait drawing, drawings for a gravestone so the stonemason can engrave them on the stone, murals etc. etc.

If reading all this has made you curious and you'd like to know more about the drawing and painting courses: feel free to call 0511 424106 for information without obligation.