Category — Things I found

I surprised myself by making this collage! I love the feel of it, much like some earlier paintings of mine (some are in my Etsy shop). The images I used are from my fiancee’s image archive that he collects for inspiration. He finds his images in books, magazines and on the internet and the topics vary from machinery, wooden constructions, lamps, interiors, to gym attributes. It’s a wonderful archive so that’s why now and then I will share some of these image(s) with you.

Yes it’s been a while since my last post and yes this is the first time I have moving image on my blog! I like this song. Apparently I’m into folk a bit.
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks because we moved our studio, actually it feels a bit like we’re still moving. The new studio isn’t ready yet, so we are working from home and that means not having all our stuff around because most of it is at our new studio. I will keep you updated on all things happening and of course more posts about art, bags, compositions, brooches and so on!

A couple of weeks ago we (Thijs, his mother and me) went to Museum Insel Hombroich and it was amazing, I highly recommend everyone to go there! It’s an open air museum in Holzheim near Neuss, Germany. The landscape, designed by Bernhard Korte, consists out of different kind of landscape types like English gardens, forest and wet biotopes. While you walk trough the peaceful landscape you come across high buildings of different sizes where you can see all kinds of art. In the amazing filtered light from the rooflights we saw sculptures, paintings, etching, furniture, felt objects and more. Several times Thijs and I looked at each other wishing that we would have such a building as our studio space some day.
The picture above is from the Stiftung Insel Hombroich website. I think this picture brings the outside and the inside, the landscape and the spaces with art perfectly together.

When I was little I used to watch Disney movies when I was not feeling well. Nowadays I love to watch everything from Studio Ghibli (and by the hand of Hayao Miyazaki). I ofcourse also watch them when I do feel good but when I don’t I simply have more time on my hands :-) These fantastic movies are one of the things that make me truly happy, wandering away in their world.

The reason for this post is that I’m having a flu right now, this is also why there was no Today’s brooch this week (got some fun new brooches though, and I can’t wait to show you!).