I received the commission to make a large mural for a wall on the porch of a house situated right at the waterfront of the Spanish Waters. The porch reaches almost to the water, with only some mangroves as separation. My mural is a wild interpretation of these...
December 2010 I gave classes at Instituto Bueno Bista, the pre-art academy of Curacao. Their 15 students and 2 apprentices each made a mural of 1 x 1 meter; scenes of the bible in their own interpretation. Two afternoons 30 school kids (grade 7th and 8th) also...
In the late-eighties there were at the most 10 ceramists working on Curaçao. In those pre-internet times, I started organizing workshops by foreign artists as a way to keep in touch with the ceramic world outside of my little island. These workshops proved to be a...