Felt experiments

Just trying out some new felting techniques and brainstorming for my new collection/collaborationship with my mother and ceramic artist Lucie Berben
www.lucieberben.nl

Work in progress

New collection...

I am making some creatures from wood, for my new collection.

Zachte G shop

Yay! Finally the website is launched! You can now buy my stuff online!
http://www.dutchbutnotfromholland.eu/

Soon for sale...

I made these pieces for the webshop of "Zachte G" wich is a online network for artist in the south of Holland, Limburg.
The website will be launched may 8. http://www.dutchbutnotfromholland.eu/

Coffee and Cream

Soon for sale at Zachte G shop:
www.dutchbutnotfromholland.eu

Felted jewelry

Rings with coral beads

Coral brooch
Fungus brooch
Fungus necklace and ring

New Frml's!

I made some new frml's for my exhibition at SIERAAD.

SIERAAD: 06.10 - 09.10

From 6 till 9 Novembre the jewelryfair SIERAAD will take place
at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.
I will be presenting my work there with the group Collections on Location.

Echolot: 21.06 - 24.08

My project for Ludwig Forum is finished!

Fungus: Jewelry of time

I made this installation for the exhibition "Echolot" at the museum Ludwig Forum (Aachen, Germany).The main focus of the exhibition is the artistic discovery journey through a very comlexly utilized rural region situated to the north of Aachen.

The mill Stockheider Mühle, also called the "alte Tuchfabrik" (old textile factory), is situated at the stream Wildbach, in a landscape to the north of Aachen in the Soers. Fascinated by this factory I saw it as a relic of a glorious past, that is slowly deteriorating and miserably vegetating...I was especially interested in deposition, threads of dust, lichen, mould and fungi that grow from damp walls or musty material that was left behind and weathered looms, resembling creatures from another world.Like jewelry of time they crawl out of the walls, feeding on the past and weaving their own delicate gossamer. They become part of the old mill and at the same time preserve a part of it's soul. Should the factory be granted a new function and a new life they will release the souls and dissapear back to where they came from.Their work will be done...

They are made of cotton, wool, kashmir and felt.

10 finished, 390 more to make...

The buttons are (handmade by me) from ceramic and porcelain.

New Collection!

The whole bunchTin & Tan
Tin's feet
Yin & Yang
Yin's tiny paw

Graduation 2007

Frm'l (Frummel) :
As a child, I always drew characters along the side line of my writings, these "characters" whom I call Frml’s, stands for: fragment, remain, rest.
They are a fragment of my childhood. By making them tangibly I can share this feeling with others. Frml’s have the possibility to keep memories within them and to nourish. They can be a souvenir, a lock of hair, a letter etc. Because a potential user can put a piece of itself in the Frm' l it will become more and more a fragment of their live.