Guest artists September and October:
Mino Wortel in our changing showcases.
On one of her travels, she saw pots with lids with animal figures at an African market. When asked, it turned out that they were intended for ‘gris gris’, ingredients with a magical effect. Although that fact is not unattractive, she was particularly struck by the understated, playful character of the pots. In unglazed clay, hand-formed, her own variations of it are crowned with animal figures that look more endearing than magical. “My pots have to be pure and humorous and they have to have something mysterious.”
She finds the material for her assemblages at flea markets, in thrift shops, in containers and sometimes just on the street. “I love to give found and used materials a new purpose, to let them come into their own. I look at them until I get an idea. That can take a long time, always putting something down, taking it away, moving it around until I finally discover where ‘it wants to go’. I don’t know how that process works, but when it’s there, I know. Continue until there is something like a ‘soul’ in the work. That is a wonderful moment, then I only have to finish it. Looking and thinking take infinitely more time than the final result suggests.”
Light objects and lamps by Piet Brummelbos
Again on display and for sale with us: the more than special lamps by Piet Brummelbos.
Piet Brummelbos makes artisanal design lamps and light objects ‘with a story’. Wood, originating from the Twickel estate near Delden in Twente, is combined with recycled metals and mouth-blown glass by Mark Locock from Ootmarsum. Brummelbos is the nickname of his family and means blackberry bush. All works are therefore signed with a metal burr. His trademark is that the electrical wires are invisibly concealed in the wood of the lamps.
