Baaij, Anita de Netherlands

Works in many techniques. She is mainly painter (acrylic / oil) and draws with chinese brush.
Her sculptures in wax, usually mythical horses, are later being casted by the bronze caster. By accident she found out, that she as if from nothing, from wax that is, could create a beautiful horsehead. For a year she kept on creating horses like that. A series of horses, with or without rider, came into being. She wanted to express the unity of rider and horse, but also the expression, the power of the horse.
Portraits of human and animal are made on request.
Her photos on dibond and/or acryl are shoots from up closewhich were enlarged. Thus making it hard to see what wat the subject was. One has to look using one's phantasy (as with her paintings). What one perceives as a chinese mountain landscape is in reality a piece of a beach with remainders of tar. Sometimes you think you see an underground river, but then it turns out to be a piece of tree bark.

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Boermans, Koos Netherlands

Education:
Nutsakademie Rotterdam and Rietveld- akademie Amsterdam.

Ceramist since the sixties of the last century.
Makes objects, installations and durable goods in ceramics. Very interested in work from the ancient past. The objects and installations often consist of assembled parts and sometimes contain other materials like wood and metal.
Themes are mostly universal: steles, memorial stones and outcomes of processes.
Used materials, techniques and methods show that the artist is of the now. His objects and installations are after unexpected rituals and ceremonies. Irony and humor bring on mysteriousness.

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Bos, Jacob Netherlands

Movement can be seen as a key word in my form-language.
Using very simple strips of glass I try to express movement in my own way.

Glass is a wonderful material of which many people do not know the fantastic properties. It is a very hard material, but also very vulnerable. It seems stiff but yet you can make all forms you desire with it.

Glass offers so much possibilities. For the sculptures I currently make, I use the 'flat glass glueing technique': all my sculptures are built up from tiny building-elements, glass strips, parts, sometimes even smaller than a square centimeter. By applying weldings with a special UV-glue they form one whole.

This technique is in itself very simple, but its elaboration demands a lot: every single strip must be cut to size and must be polished. Only then I can weld them together. Every welding must dry for thirty seconds.

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Buytendijk, Hermien Netherlands

born in Groningen, 1948

Hermien Buytendijk, born Groningen (the Netherlands), 1948.

The sculptures of Hermien Buytendijk strongly express her imagination into ceramics. Dreams and wordplays are being built into three dimensional layers by hand. Her motto is: "Nothing is as it seems" *

Her human and animal figures are created like mild mocking birds: self-irony is the basis according to Hermien. I try to capture everyone's personality including their follies and weaknesses. "The sculptures often express my own doings".

Having a keen sense of the absurd her unica often transcend reality, but still feel recognizable and often deliver a smile. They are hand-crafted using stoneware clay or porcelain. Subsequently, they are baked at a high temperature. In recent years bigger garden sculptures have been created using a thicker layer of glaze of earth tones in combination with a touch of pure gold.

The original work is permanently represented by several galleries, and can regularly be found at Art Fairs.

* This motto is also the title of her most recent book "Niets is wat het lijkt" [Eng: "Nothing is what it seems"] ISBN/EAN: 978-90-79748-01-3.
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Creutzer, Caroline Sweden

I am swedish, live in Berlin and exhibit on an international platform (Frankreich, Deutschland, Schweden und USA). Creating art is a challenge as well as a passion, joining my love for estetics, nature and humans. My strength is modeling stone, especially the white Carrara marble from Italy, but also schwedish granite, serpentine, travertin and alabaster. I also experiment with other materials. Today colourful collages are added to my sculptures and paintings. In my art I like to emphasize the soft and sensual female body with its curving forms, while using a distinctive cubist style. In this the beauty of sea waves inspires me.
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Derksen, Jenny Netherlands

After the art academy I have been a full-time professional artist since 2007.
My work can be seen in galleries and on fairs in the Netherlands and abroad.
I often also work on assignment. I make sculptures from clay to very large ones from polyester such as a seating element as a 16 meters long snake: an assignment in the public space for a park in city of Oss.
My sculptures are built up from a steel frame, upholstered with multiple layers of glass fiber mats and resin finished with 2-component laquer which is UV-resistant and frost proof so that my work can also be placed outdoors.

My inspiration?
All beauty lies in nature.
In the early awakening,
the sea,
in colors,
in the inifinite colors lives my inspiration.

Acquiring my art is not just obtaining a beautiful and unique sculpture, but also hundreds of hours of handwork, frustrations and moments of pure joy.
A beautiful object made with passion by myself to color the world a bit merrier.

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Duval, Maïté Netherlands

Special exhibition 'Ainsi-soit elle'

Sculpture garden Gerolstein exhibits up until October 1st the sculptures of the French-Dutch artist Maïté Duval. The large bronze women figures, intimate double portraits and studies are being exhibited for the first time since Maïté's passing away, on last November 2nd.

Maïté Duval (Renazé, 1944 - Zutphen, 2019) gained wide fame with a fully own oeuvre of robust form, movement and femininity. Her figurative sculptures can be found in publicly posessed art collections, is loved by collectors and are part of many museum collections. Ainsi Soit-elle (1992), which can now be seen in Gerolstein as well, is characteristic for her art: clear and warm forms, volumes of rest and serenity and yet at the same time a bronze skin in which an intense tension is held. This is a world filled with worldly femininity, full of beauty in an ordinary day to day manner - and therefore so special.

The title of the sculpture, Zoals zij is (Eng: As she is), is also the title of this postume honouring. Skulpturengarten Gerolstein exhibits with pride twelve large and fifteen smaller sculptures of this charming, but o so strong French-Dutch artist. As she was: in a continuous searching between self conscious female figures full of lust for life at the one hand, and reserved, almost fragile nudes and (double)portraits on the other.

Two wonderful examples of Maïté's vigorous work can be admired in the garden. In De Sprong (1987) (Eng: The jump) the roughly shaped chest, male stomach and the muscular upper legs lead to an explosion of dance and movement. The large size and the energy seem to sometimes lift her sculptures above life itself. Volupté (1999) is a true ode to vigorous femininity: an enormous, extatic goddess.

Arcade (2001), the first sculpture Maïté made after the death of her husband in 1999, marks the other side of her work. The sculpture bends, reaches, longs... The title refers not only to the bent pose of the body; it is like Maïté herself tried to build a bridge to her deceased partner. A distressing en daring work. The sculpture and double portraits which followed are melancholic and refer to motherhood, love and intimicy. Malade d'amour (2002), Verdriet (2007) and Aime-moi (2008) are moving witnesses of an all-consuming love.
br > In her last years Maïté returned to the liveliness of her earliers female figures, but more reserved, ripened. She experimented with abstraction and changing the patine of the bronze. Feu de Lune, in fact just the lower part of the body, brings with its playful title and pure, almost abstract form a multitude of associations with it: a matriarch, a standard woman, a playful lover, an artist who kept renewing herself.

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Erp, Ans van Netherlands

Dutch artist (Ceramics) from Balgoy near Nijmegen.

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Grosse Meininghaus, Ulla Germany

Ulla Große-Meininghaus is a learned Sculptress and has her restoration workshop along the upper part of the Ahr. In future she wants to work more as an artist and exhibit her scultures in and around her butterfly garden (See Eifalia) as in Skulpturengarten Gerolstein.
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Kabel, George Netherlands

George Kabel (Aalst-Waalre - Netherlands, 1955) is sculpting since 20 years. He prefers the sculpting of hard stone types like Belgian hard stone, marble and French limestone. He models ceramic sculptures as well. Purely through his tactile sense he expresses the idea, emotion or feeling in material forms. He has more affinity with free, geometrical and organic forms. He is less concerned with the representation or contents of the sculpture, but more with form, which can be the right carrier of a certain mood or emotion.

Tension, dynamics, rythm, roughness, softness, cheerfulness.
He likes to have the spectator experience these elements of feel without interference of language or visual influences.

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Kloep, Beate Germany

In her glass-jewelry studio Beate creates unique glass jewelry at the glass burner. From Moretti or Effetre glass from Murano she makes her glassperls in individual forms and compositions.
Assignments and workshops are possible as well.

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Laar, Maria van der Netherlands

Maria was educated at the art academy of Arendonk, subject sculpture. She is associated to gallery K26 Oss NL and to gallery Apart&zo in Grave NL. Initiator and organizer of M-art pop up. Art mediation for Eeterij D'n Oven, in 't Oventje. Maria mainly creates sculptures and portraits after observation, in clay, wax or bronze, occasionally synthetic material. In her free work she is inspired by her direct environment: nature in the Maashorst reserve, Netherlands. Her style is expressive, so teachers and class mates say. She makes portraits which touch, which look at you as in an encounter. With striking resemblance, yet with an own expressive touch. She won the 2017 'Oog voor Oss' art competition with sculpture 'portret van Eric'. She also made a sculpture portraying King Willem-Alexander, which is now placed in the city hall of Oss NL.
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Lebesque, Bart Netherlands

Bart Lebesque (1983) is an autodidactical metal artist. In his work Bart wants to make the connection between earth and the cosmos. In doing so he works entirely by feel. His metal art is in harmony with trees and plants, life outdoors and the people who enjoy it. He uses unique 'waste material' of stainless steel or corten steel and employs special techniques and metalworking. He has a studio with sculpture garden in Uden the Netherlands.
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Lemmens, Wim Netherlands

Visual artist (painter and sculptor) born 08/29/1947 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

In 1976 Wim received his education in the Netherlands at the St. Joost Academy in Breda specialized in painting art and monumental design.
Over the years Wim's work acquired a distinctive style.
Wim: "For the making of my sculptures I prefer the natural materials like granite, hard stone, marble, wood and metal. These natural materials are best suited to reach the 'natural' impact I have in mind when making a sculpture."
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Lomme, Marianne Netherlands

For Marianne Lomme the creation of ceramics is an inspiring means to process her impressions as teacher 'artistic education'. Ceramics trainings received from several national and international ceramists have refined her work further. She comments on that: 'With the sun as guide I explore the universe, full of colorful tableaux vivants and unfinished still lives. With ceramics, paint and wax I create my own adventure and choose the ultimate challenge'. The objects of this ceramist build up from several operations in clay. Fitted with engobes, oxides, glazing and natural materials a work is burnt multiple times in different ovens. During this process the open fire finds its own way and determines... which in the end delivers gorgeous results. Her signature and themes can be clearly recognized from her objects. She exhibits her work in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
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Lowes, Ties Netherlands

Sculptur. He has been working as a sculptur for over 30 years and has mastered the creation of three-dimensional work. He works with bronze and clay and in the last few years in several sorts of stone. His main source of inspiration are humans in motion. His work shows his interest in the expressive human, most visible in his bronzes. In stone a development is visible towards more stylistic work.
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Meijerink, Noortje Netherlands

"Birds in all their freedom, gracefully gliding through the sky or proudly strutting on the ground. To capture those motions is my challenge."

As a ceramist I fell in love with porcelain. I prefer the craftsmanship of the throwing wheel and the precision of the sgraffito technique. Thrown porcelain pots are covered with a black engobe in which geometrical shapes or birds are scratched. After graduating in silver clay in the United States in 2003, some of the birds on my pots receive a silver wing. The combining of these two forms of "clay" is a technical challenge that's more than worth the effort. The result is a graceful combination of matte black, bright white porcelain and lustrously shining silver. Currently my birds are becoming more and more figurative. The hand-formed porcelain bodies and heads are getting tails, necks and legs made of bronze clay or copper clay. The rich yellow hue of the bronze or the warm red of copper lend themselves perfectly to complete my proud porcelain birds.

"Oh, to be a bird; fragile yet firm..."

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Milort, Liesbet Netherlands

Dutch artist

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Oberdorf, Dieter Germany

Personal development is dependent on active discussion with the inner self and one's environment, which is an important experience for me. What sparked my quest was the sentence I would be unable to sympathize with my environment. The discussion with my inner self brought me the insight that the different energies of man/woman, sun/moon and Yin/Yang etc. are central elements for a deeper understanding of us humans. To understand these energy worlds and to connect them together brought me Harmony, Empathy and much positive life energy. As an artist I transform these experiences into esthetic sculptures. 'Sense the form and understand yourself'. In this way my objects can set free intensive emotions, and cause a positive life experience and trust with the observer.
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Penning, John Netherlands

John Penning (30-05-1961) I am an autodidact and since about 6 years creating sculptures of iron and stainless steel in all sorts of forms and sizes. I use several different techniques. Every artwork is unique and can be placed indoors as well as outdoors. I intensely search for new themes to keep on making work out of recycled RVS and iron, but from new materials as well like from weathering steel. Recently I started modelling, trying to find my own way in that. It is also possible to come to me with an idea and to start a nice project together.

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Pesch, Karl-Heinz Germany

Karl-Heinz Pesch is originally educated as 'Industriekaufmann', but in the end became a furniture maker and a maker of other utensils, next to wood also using iron as material. Gradually more and more decorative and art objects were made and asked for and by now also creating his own free art Karl-Heinz became the artist he is today.

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Ree, Cor de Netherlands

Cor de Ree can completely loose himself in the making of furniture made up from copper, zink and glass.

You will recognize his long stretched furniture from far. Thrones, Tables, Couches, Chandeliers, Towers etc.

Does one object have a touch of Art Nouveau, Charles Rennie Mackintosh or neo-Gothic, the other has something Moor-like, oriental......

Through this mix of styles and the rough way of finishing a style of his own came about.

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Reuser, Nol Netherlands

Artist since 1985. Winner of the publics prize "Kunstenaar van het jaar (Artist of the year)", chosen from over 1000 artists from the Netherlands. Participant to the "Nationale Kunstdagen (National Art days)" and "the Colorfield Performance" under guidance of Dirk Hakze regarding "Leeuwarden Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa". Expositions throughout Europe and "Invite d'honneur" to the festival "Rendez-Vous de Saint Loup" as well as member of the associated jury "Le Jury International". Works were shown in several Musea ( a.o. "Museum Jan Cunen" in Oss and "Coda Museum" in Apeldoorn, etc. ) and a.o. gallery "de Overvloed" in Oss, "Sous Terre" in Lithoijen etcetra. Own studio at home.

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Scholz, Winfried Netherlands, Amsterdam

Motion is a central theme in my artwork.

I am fascinated by the way emotion is controlling human behavior and how this is reflected in apparent movement of the human body.

My sculptures of human bodies are evoking a sense of persons that really could exist. They implement an obvious reality and show strong outward and inward motion. These sculptures I preferably realise in naturally grown material, which came to be mainly wood in the past years. While well known sculpturing techniques make it easy to approach my work I also mix it with estranging forms of expression. On second glance they can make obvious observations shift and in shifting reveal the layering of my stories.

My kinetic installations show another fascinating understanding of motion: prolonged repetition of mechanical movement patterns can evoke the idea of certain spirits of a device. Of course it all starts with the idea of the existence of pure beauty a mechanical movement can possess. But the human eye is conditioned to combine and interprete observations with existing images and preconceptions. By doing so fantasy is triggered to run free and to construct a story of its own. In my design I play with elements such as recognition and alienation to support this process. By that I aim to provide my kinetic installations with credible illusions of meaningful characteristics.
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Sowietzki, Maria Duitsland

1977-1980 Ausbildung an der Bundesfachschule in Kaiserslautern bei Prof. Roman Heid zur Steinmetz- und Bildhauerin. 1985 Meisterprüfung.
Ursprünglich aus dem Handwerk kommend, wagte ich, getrieben von dem Wunsch nach selbstbestimmten Ausdrucksformen, 2008 den Schritt zur Kunst und bezog ein eigenes Atelier. Ich arbeite in Basalt, Marmor, Kalkstein, Sandstein, Basalt - Lava und mit Ton. Dabei ist Stein für mich mehr als nur das Material zum umsetzen meiner Ideen.
Meine Skulpturen entstehen in dem Bewußtsein, dass der Stein eine für den Menschen unvorstellbar lange Zeit brauchte um die jetzige Form, Struktur und Härte zu erlangen und dass das "Gesicht", das ich ihm nun gebe, wiederum Generationen überdauern wird.
Hauptthema meiner Arbeit ist der Mensch - oft mit Blick auf seine Zeit - , Lebensabschnitte, Gefühle, Gedanken, Beziehungen.... und ich freue mich, wenn der Betrachter meiner Skulpturen sich berührt oder an ganz eigenen Situationen erinnert fühlt.
Auch unser Umgang mit der Erde und aktuelles Weltgeschehen fließen in meine Arbeit ein.

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Stelling, Susann Sweden

I am Swedish. My basic concept - everything different and unique! In search of the special, the un- usual, which I did not find, I decided to create it myself. I learned to weld. I make tables, art, objects for home and garden, and also jewelry. I let nature and body inspire me with its beauty. I search, dream, design, and experience fulfillment with love, passion and fun for details. With each piece I want to pass on part of this joy. I bend and shape iron with hand strength, weld and grind. Take orders for personal and individual custom made. It may be humorous, funny, and original.
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Vermeulen, Samy R.R. Germany

"first of all, I create my works of art out of aesthetic outer shapes. These then reveal the content to me. And sometimes, underneath this first truth there lies more profound truth. If I can get a hold of it, I place it at the disposal of those interested. While doing so, viewers absolutely have to have the opportunity to gain their own experience with the object. Often people give me their eyes and their way of understanding and I can recognize myself anew through them. For these gifts I am very grateful." "I intend to captivate the viewers by means of my aesthetic, to touch them profoundly and drag them into the work of art. Until they encounter themselves. Until they start asking questions and start searching for answers. And perhaps even find answers..."

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Verschaeren, Jos Netherlands

Jos Verschaeren in a nuttshell

Born as son of a carpenter already blessed with an above average interest in how the world looks like material-wise. At the age of 18 he started a Higher Technical School education (HTS) and decided at the closure thereof to not start a career as an engineer. In stead he went to the art academy.
Once graduated passionately started exhibiting with the result that he is now world-famous in his village Neerloon, the Netherlands :-). In the mean time he has a sizable oeuvre to his name, among which also skulptures for the public space. He works in bronze, wood, glas, concrete, copper, steel, zinc and even brick. He further makes silk-screen prints on a regular basis.

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Verschueren, Jan Belgium

Man in a Poetic 'Alternative Universe'

Bits and pieces, old remnants, junk and 'beautiful' scrap; are found and welded together; haphazardly 'careless', or carefully planned;
A new world evolves, new machines are invented... and is then 'inhabited' ...
Ceramic faces, hands and foots invade the world, driving the machines guided by your imagination!
Fantastical and playful, and filled with humour... and then there is this almost indescribable 'something'... a sadness, a melancholy...?

Certainly human...
- All of which makes it Poetry.

And, as with any poetic artist, titles are important.

Jan Verschueren plays with the senses, and he plays with words - in a most endearing way!

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Welten, Ellen Netherlands

Bronze

At a very early age Ellen was struck by the strength of bronze. When she studied at the Academy of Arts in Tilburg (Netherlands) working with bronze became her specialty. During that time she got her inspiration from sculptures by other artists such as Arthur Spronken.

As a result of Ellen's activity in horseback riding, initially dressage and presently western riding, the horse has become a great source of inspiration. Through riding them she can feel the enormous power of these animals and wants to express that power in her sculptures. She always finishes her sculptures herself and especially through the patination, the colouring, she can add another dimension to it.

Glass

Ellen's latest work consists of glass vases and slim figures.

The glass is oven melted glass and therefore not created by blowing or fusing. This technique is very laborious.
First a model is sculpted in sculpting wax. A special mould is created around this model which will be melted out of it. This mould and pieces of special glass will go into the oven with a specific programme for glass.
The programme can take up to several weeks, depending on the measurements of the sculpture. Several sculptures will get extra lighting, which is done by LED-lights.

Working with glass offers a whole new challenge. In it she looks for the boundaries of what is possible in form and colour. Glass is not always as willing as bronze and it definitely has qualities that binds working with it to certain rules. But this is what makes glass an exiting material to work with and gives an extra feeling of fulfillment when a work of art lives up to its expectations when it comes out of the oven.
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Welten, Ruud Netherlands

Ruud Welten creates websites and is photgrapher. He had his photography education in Rotterdam at the 'Akademie voor fotografie'. At first he just wanted to make better photos for the websites he was creating. But soon after he started to get assignments for photography of products. From that experience the desire grew to make beautiful creative photos. Often of popular objects of photomaking but with a different approach. He accomplishes that by taking the photos from an unexpected angle, with an unexpected composition or by just showing an enlarged part. This renders the object an entirely different atmosphere such as for example with the picture of Ayers Rock in Australia.

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Welten, Wietske Netherlands

Wietske Welten started her sculpturing study in 2007 at the "Academie voor Schone Kunsten" in Antwerp and graduated in 2011.
When she came into contact with the material glass for the first time during a workshop in 2007 she was immediately enchanted. Because Wietske wanted to specialize in glass she started a part time study "Vormgever van Warm glas (Modeler of hot glass) in 2010 at Syntra West in Brugge (B). This education focuses on oven-shaped glass like fusing, form-melting and pâte de verre.
Since Wietske started her work studio (Atelier Louise) in Den Bosch (NL) she mainly experimented with the different techniques within fusing. The so-called 'drop out' is her favorite. The combination of glass and metal keeps fascinating her. She wishes to approach the acquired techniques in new ways and she does this by adding metal to her art as well as in her jewelry.
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Willems, Till Netherlands

Drawings are normally made using pencil, chalk or paint-brush and East-Indian ink. A 'normal' drawing is always flat. But not so in the work of Till Willems from Lithoijen the Netherlands : She draws using metal wire. Her spatial drawings are made from several carefully chosen diameters of wire. The spatial line play surprises the spectator again and again. The 'drawing' seems to emerge from the wall and looks different from every angle. Shadows play an important role: they form new drawings on wall and floor. Animals are Till's favourite subject. The powerful bull, tumbling swallows, the spotted woodpecker with his red crest and playful portraits of dogs; Till strives to capture their essence with as few means as possible.
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Willms, Stefanie Germany

Als Autodidaktin entstanden ab 1993 erste Holzarbeiten. 1997 die erste Ausstellung mit Arbeiten in Vollplastik, auch Stelen u. Außenskulpturen, immer coloriert und aus heimischen Hölzern wie Linde, Pappel, Eiche, auch Abschnitte von Fichte-Leimbinderbalken.
Die Thematik "Starke Frauen" hat sich gehalten. Von der mystisch erd-verbundenen Göttin, Erdmutter u. Hüterin bis zur "starken Frau" von heute, die in Pose u. Mimik von Standfestigkeit, Energie u. Stärke zeugt, bezugnehmend auf ihre Ursprünge u. Wurzeln.

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Willms, Tim Germany

1944 das bunte Licht der Welt erblickt.
Ausbildung z. Grafiker.
Gaststudent Kölner Werkschulen Klasse Freie Malerei bei Prof.Vordemberge;
Klasse Visuelle Kommunikation bei Prof.Will.
Auftragsarbeiten Industrie, TV, Kölner Karneval.
Ständige Auseinandersetzung mit Malerei u. Plastik.
Diverse Ausstellungen.

Was ist Kunst?
-war die kulturelle u. mystische Sichtweise zu dokumentieren
-war die Ereignisse u. Erlebnisse der Zeit festzuhalten
-war die Möglichkeit der Darstellung, welche später die Fotografie vermag.
Die Eitelkeit gefallen zu wollen, ist Kitsch!

Tim (Dietmar-Bodo) Willms

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