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Christina's Crooked Garden

Welcome to
the world of Crooked Garden

Handbuild ceramic creations made with feeling, by Christina Kingma

Coming April 22th

The Awakening Collection

A collaboration filled with clay and birds,
lovingly made by Crooked Garden and
Lydia Elisabeth Pottery

Delivering this beauty to @keramiekmarktdwingeloo today, where @lydiaelisabethpottery will be selling her works (including the last available items of our Awakening collection)🔥🔥🔥

#ceramicart #heron #handmadevase #handpaintedceramics #uniekinterieur

Delivering this beauty to @keramiekmarktdwingeloo today, where @lydiaelisabethpottery will be selling her works (including the last available items of our Awakening collection)🔥🔥🔥

#ceramicart #heron #handmadevase #handpaintedceramics #uniekinterieur

I have never cared much for mothersday. I mostly did my daughter-job because it was expected of me and I didn’t want drama, and that was that.

When Aleksander was born - 4 years ago, he showed me what kids are really like and also showed me how truly broken my own relationship with my own mother was. My mother was there when he was born, and for a little moment we connected like we have connected when I was born - I think. And I somehow knew: when she lets go of my hand, we will both let go of each-other.

Which we did. Those 4 years became years of epic lows, filled with many griefs. A loss of the fantasy: ‘if I work hard enough she will love me in the way that I desire to be loved’. These lows, in hindsight, were necessary because they created space to actually feel. In those ‘mothersdays’ I avoided instagram like the plague, because I finally understood what I had missed. Slowly though, I felt a new feeling as-well. Light as a feather at first, but the more I progressed the more intense it became: family love. A new emotion. A new color on the rainbow. Fresh, pure, deeply frightening, but so so so so needed.

With the birth of Louise in September, I marked the end of those 4 years of incredible emotional labour. I didn’t have my mother there this time (we seemed to have had our end-game fight, at 36 weeks pregnancy. I suspected that I’d never see her again), but with a new set of people, selected by my better understood emotions.

When Louise was born, I was re-born for the second time as-well. This time as a mother who didn’t have her heart in a lock. When I needed to go to the hospital because of a hemmorage, I decided to call my own mother. In that frightening moment, I didn’t care about all the fights anymore. I wanted to smell her smell. She instantly jumped in the car and when we saw eachother: unexpectedly met again. Like when Aleksander was born. Like when I was born. But this time, with my open heart. A new person. She stood next to my bed, guardian mode. And counted the little fingers and toes of the beautiful Louise with me. I learned there, that despite the horrid things that can happen. (Chosen) family - is the most important thing there is.

I have never cared much for mothersday. I mostly did my daughter-job because it was expected of me and I didn’t want drama, and that was that.

When Aleksander was born - 4 years ago, he showed me what kids are really like and also showed me how truly broken my own relationship with my own mother was. My mother was there when he was born, and for a little moment we connected like we have connected when I was born - I think. And I somehow knew: when she lets go of my hand, we will both let go of each-other.

Which we did. Those 4 years became years of epic lows, filled with many griefs. A loss of the fantasy: ‘if I work hard enough she will love me in the way that I desire to be loved’. These lows, in hindsight, were necessary because they created space to actually feel. In those ‘mothersdays’ I avoided instagram like the plague, because I finally understood what I had missed. Slowly though, I felt a new feeling as-well. Light as a feather at first, but the more I progressed the more intense it became: family love. A new emotion. A new color on the rainbow. Fresh, pure, deeply frightening, but so so so so needed.

With the birth of Louise in September, I marked the end of those 4 years of incredible emotional labour. I didn’t have my mother there this time (we seemed to have had our end-game fight, at 36 weeks pregnancy. I suspected that I’d never see her again), but with a new set of people, selected by my better understood emotions.

When Louise was born, I was re-born for the second time as-well. This time as a mother who didn’t have her heart in a lock. When I needed to go to the hospital because of a hemmorage, I decided to call my own mother. In that frightening moment, I didn’t care about all the fights anymore. I wanted to smell her smell. She instantly jumped in the car and when we saw eachother: unexpectedly met again. Like when Aleksander was born. Like when I was born. But this time, with my open heart. A new person. She stood next to my bed, guardian mode. And counted the little fingers and toes of the beautiful Louise with me. I learned there, that despite the horrid things that can happen. (Chosen) family - is the most important thing there is.

Wrapping orders ❤️

The kids atelier of yesterday crossed my mind multiple times today. There was this girl. She made me think of that book; 'Woman Who Run With Wolves' - I felt like she embodied that book. This wild female nature that we carry all inside of us, but which most woman have neatly cemented a couple of walls around. This girl didn't have that wall and when allowed, she went all out with the paint. She painted herself, grabbed the old paper cups that weren't used by the other kids anymore and squeezed all the paint from them. She curiously eyed all the different colors of paint dripping everywhere and smeared it over het arms. Eventually she pulled out her sweater and filled her pockets with fat blobs of paint.

I just sat on the ground next to her and followed her exploration with curiosity. It was there that I felt my own walls and felt the cramp of them. I had never even though of the possibility of putting blobs of paint in my pocket. But for this girl it just seemed like the beginning.

I felt like there was a story hidden in there somewhere. And today I catch myself still puzzling with it, but also meeting the limits of my own imagination - my walls, again. I feel like the girl opened a little door to a wild world, but I'm not flexible enough to pass through.

I'll put this puzzle piece in my inner archive of curious things, and I'll look forward to the next kids atelier. I also applied for a subsidy, to make the price go down. We'll see!

A nice evening to you ❤️

#cupwithastory #pottery #handpaintedceramics #littlehouse #beschilderdekeramiek

Wrapping orders ❤️

The kids atelier of yesterday crossed my mind multiple times today. There was this girl. She made me think of that book; 'Woman Who Run With Wolves' - I felt like she embodied that book. This wild female nature that we carry all inside of us, but which most woman have neatly cemented a couple of walls around. This girl didn't have that wall and when allowed, she went all out with the paint. She painted herself, grabbed the old paper cups that weren't used by the other kids anymore and squeezed all the paint from them. She curiously eyed all the different colors of paint dripping everywhere and smeared it over het arms. Eventually she pulled out her sweater and filled her pockets with fat blobs of paint.

I just sat on the ground next to her and followed her exploration with curiosity. It was there that I felt my own walls and felt the cramp of them. I had never even though of the possibility of putting blobs of paint in my pocket. But for this girl it just seemed like the beginning.

I felt like there was a story hidden in there somewhere. And today I catch myself still puzzling with it, but also meeting the limits of my own imagination - my walls, again. I feel like the girl opened a little door to a wild world, but I'm not flexible enough to pass through.

I'll put this puzzle piece in my inner archive of curious things, and I'll look forward to the next kids atelier. I also applied for a subsidy, to make the price go down. We'll see!

A nice evening to you ❤️

#cupwithastory #pottery #handpaintedceramics #littlehouse #beschilderdekeramiek

Kuiken atelier magie ❤️ er zijn nog plekjes vrij voor 30 mei! Link in bio voor aanmelden, €35,- per kind (inclusief veel schildermateriaal, ballonnen en een lekkere koffie voor mama/papa)

Kuiken atelier magie ❤️ er zijn nog plekjes vrij voor 30 mei! Link in bio voor aanmelden, €35,- per kind (inclusief veel schildermateriaal, ballonnen en een lekkere koffie voor mama/papa)

April

I still often feel like I accidentally stumbled upon this life. A life with two kids who are very happy to be here (which turns out to be contagious as heck). A big man that I like, who keeps doing these random things for me and doesn’t ask (that many) questions. A home, a real home that seems to be ok with me staying. And this desire to create - my life elixer that I sometimes a tad furiously gobble. These days fill me from head to toes and I hope that I can have thousands upon thousands of them more. Which is really quite something for me to type, because I have mostly have experienced life as a steep and wet hill that I was climbing with slippery shoes. Turns out though, that I actually was shuffling towards something. I’m very happy that I kept moving.

The images:
1. Creating together with @lydiaelisabethpottery (also the start of my curiosity for the turning wheel)
2. Filming for the Awakening collection on the dijk. Johan steered the drone, while standing in an angle, keeping baby Louise out of the harsh winds. Lydia her dad was taking care if Job (her son) and Aleksander who were free roaming. I love this moment.
3. Pluisje and Olaf are growing older, which I find hard. Pluisje has been declining rapidly lately.
4. Creating together with my unit (he is in a drawing spree, he takes a sketchbook everywhere and I cant describe how that makes my creator heart do happy boinks)
5. Prepping a background for the shoot with @lisannejagerphotography and @joyce_khanou in where we photographed me with my 7 months old Louise.
6. Which resulted in sweet sweet precious images that I love.
7. The next day I shared that goodness with a couple friends, who I felt also deserved a photo like that
8. The turningwheel adventure continues with @onthebrinkofclay at the zen monk teacher @kleistudio_reduzum
9. Le good art
10.Putting the final hand to the Awakening collection (which almost sold out within a day!)
11. Coot cup ❤️
12. Chilling
13. The kingsday market met lieve Esther

Onwards to May! In where I’ll start working on Aleksander Town (thanks to the subsidy that I received this month) aaannndd whheerrer the turnjng wheel will arrive :)

April

I still often feel like I accidentally stumbled upon this life. A life with two kids who are very happy to be here (which turns out to be contagious as heck). A big man that I like, who keeps doing these random things for me and doesn’t ask (that many) questions. A home, a real home that seems to be ok with me staying. And this desire to create - my life elixer that I sometimes a tad furiously gobble. These days fill me from head to toes and I hope that I can have thousands upon thousands of them more. Which is really quite something for me to type, because I have mostly have experienced life as a steep and wet hill that I was climbing with slippery shoes. Turns out though, that I actually was shuffling towards something. I’m very happy that I kept moving.

The images:
1. Creating together with @lydiaelisabethpottery (also the start of my curiosity for the turning wheel)
2. Filming for the Awakening collection on the dijk. Johan steered the drone, while standing in an angle, keeping baby Louise out of the harsh winds. Lydia her dad was taking care if Job (her son) and Aleksander who were free roaming. I love this moment.
3. Pluisje and Olaf are growing older, which I find hard. Pluisje has been declining rapidly lately.
4. Creating together with my unit (he is in a drawing spree, he takes a sketchbook everywhere and I cant describe how that makes my creator heart do happy boinks)
5. Prepping a background for the shoot with @lisannejagerphotography and @joyce_khanou in where we photographed me with my 7 months old Louise.
6. Which resulted in sweet sweet precious images that I love.
7. The next day I shared that goodness with a couple friends, who I felt also deserved a photo like that
8. The turningwheel adventure continues with @onthebrinkofclay at the zen monk teacher @kleistudio_reduzum
9. Le good art
10.Putting the final hand to the Awakening collection (which almost sold out within a day!)
11. Coot cup ❤️
12. Chilling
13. The kingsday market met lieve Esther

Onwards to May! In where I’ll start working on Aleksander Town (thanks to the subsidy that I received this month) aaannndd whheerrer the turnjng wheel will arrive :)

A collection inspired by nature, made from nature, by us as we are. Filled with birds that move from winter to spring, a time that we love. Filled with the flowers that grow first. The awakening of the green, the nests, the sunlight. Made to enjoy (with BIG mugs that can carry 800ml!!).

We welcome you at both of our sites, the Awakening collection is online!! Link in bio!

#handpaintedpottery #ceramics #birds #art #delftsblauw

A collection inspired by nature, made from nature, by us as we are. Filled with birds that move from winter to spring, a time that we love. Filled with the flowers that grow first. The awakening of the green, the nests, the sunlight. Made to enjoy (with BIG mugs that can carry 800ml!!).

We welcome you at both of our sites, the Awakening collection is online!! Link in bio!

#handpaintedpottery #ceramics #birds #art #delftsblauw

#Ceramics #pottery #delftsblauw #keramiek #illustratedpottery

#Ceramics #pottery #delftsblauw #keramiek #illustratedpottery

Tomorrow at 20:00 Ams. Time @lydiaelisabethpottery and me will release our very special and limited edition Awakening collection!

#ceramics #heronillustration #handpaintedpottery #delftsblauw #bijzonderservies

Tomorrow at 20:00 Ams. Time @lydiaelisabethpottery and me will release our very special and limited edition Awakening collection!

#ceramics #heronillustration #handpaintedpottery #delftsblauw #bijzonderservies

#ceramics #pottery #keramiek #delftsblauw #kip

#ceramics #pottery #keramiek #delftsblauw #kip

Upcoming wednesday @lydiaelisabethpottery and me will release the collection that we’ve been working on! These three mugs you will find on my site. I asked Lydia to build them big, because handpinched pots are often a bit smaller, since your thumb does a lot of the heavy lifting in shaping it (people with longer thumbs create bigger cups more easily).

#ceramics #pottery #handpaintedpottery #birdceramics #delftsblauw

Upcoming wednesday @lydiaelisabethpottery and me will release the collection that we’ve been working on! These three mugs you will find on my site. I asked Lydia to build them big, because handpinched pots are often a bit smaller, since your thumb does a lot of the heavy lifting in shaping it (people with longer thumbs create bigger cups more easily).

#ceramics #pottery #handpaintedpottery #birdceramics #delftsblauw

Only two cups left to paint + a couple smaller versions! Ready for the April 22th launch 👌

This photo was taken at the atelier today, where
@lydiaelisabethpottery and me put all the works together and photographed them. We then divided the items between us, so that we can showcase a selection each on our sites. It felt a bit weird seeing the items being separated, I wonder why. I think there is a bit of an attachment to this collection. To this story. They are more than physical objects for me, they carry the reeds, that epic wind and endless views of the dijk. Fresh crisp winter air, first warm sunshine of spring, the silence underneath the crisp flutters of leafs on the trees… and the birds that live their life. Like these coots, momma coot on her nest. Dad coot collecting twigs. A moment that I spotted while I was walking with my own family, back to my own nest.

And cmon it’s a well made collection. CMON. One of those collections that will be hard to top. I’m very happy that @lydiaelisabethpottery came up with it!

#ceramics #handpaintedceramics #keramiek #delftsblauw #delftsbluepottery

Only two cups left to paint + a couple smaller versions! Ready for the April 22th launch 👌

This photo was taken at the atelier today, where
@lydiaelisabethpottery and me put all the works together and photographed them. We then divided the items between us, so that we can showcase a selection each on our sites. It felt a bit weird seeing the items being separated, I wonder why. I think there is a bit of an attachment to this collection. To this story. They are more than physical objects for me, they carry the reeds, that epic wind and endless views of the dijk. Fresh crisp winter air, first warm sunshine of spring, the silence underneath the crisp flutters of leafs on the trees… and the birds that live their life. Like these coots, momma coot on her nest. Dad coot collecting twigs. A moment that I spotted while I was walking with my own family, back to my own nest.

And cmon it’s a well made collection. CMON. One of those collections that will be hard to top. I’m very happy that @lydiaelisabethpottery came up with it!

#ceramics #handpaintedceramics #keramiek #delftsblauw #delftsbluepottery

The sun shows herself more and more, little green leaves unfold from pointy branches. The sparrows grow more round each day, they have conversations outside our window.

I love this painting. Each brushstroke is free and carries the scene. None too much, none too may, sometimes you create one of those. When I see her standing in my atelier I nod everytime. Can’t really explain it. It took me a long while to be able to paint like this.

Cup wheelthrown by @lydiaelisabethpottery
We will launch our awaking collecting on April 22th!

#cup #ceramics #delftsblauw #handpaintedceramics #birdillustration

The sun shows herself more and more, little green leaves unfold from pointy branches. The sparrows grow more round each day, they have conversations outside our window.

I love this painting. Each brushstroke is free and carries the scene. None too much, none too may, sometimes you create one of those. When I see her standing in my atelier I nod everytime. Can’t really explain it. It took me a long while to be able to paint like this.

Cup wheelthrown by @lydiaelisabethpottery
We will launch our awaking collecting on April 22th!

#cup #ceramics #delftsblauw #handpaintedceramics #birdillustration

Wees welkom deze meivakantie! Alle info staat op de site, link in bio!

Wees welkom deze meivakantie! Alle info staat op de site, link in bio!

📸 by @lisannejagerphotography
🌸 by @joyce_khanou

At the moment I still feel very much like one with Louise. I’m deeply grateful that, 6 months postpartum, I can still exist a little in this kind of in-between world in my head. Not in that hazy, almost drunken way right after birth, but just enough that I feel generally very content.

And Louise too, she carries that same sense of contentment. And something deeply feminine. Something I now realize I was missing.

Postpartum months feel filled with an intense duality for me. I am a multi layered person, but in these times it magnifies.

On the first day post-partum, I was love drunk, marveling at the tiny toes of this little (not so little) girl I had just birthed. On the other side, I was washing bloody handprints off my body in a sterile bathroom.

In those first weeks, I felt so deep in the layers of life that I almost experienced a kind of clairvoyance. I somehow sensed souls hovering, waiting to be born. And at the same time, I had to relearn how to sleep, because my body went into panic every time I drifted off, ever since the ambulance ride after my hemorrhage.

And then… my doula came, during the worst panic attack of my life, and made me a simple warm drink. Oat milk, chamomile, valerian. That became the turning point. That’s where I learned to sleep again.

In those first months, I felt a peace I had never known before. Real peace. And support. I learned to care for myself, with warmth, with food, with herbs like lady’s mantle and nettle.

And still, in the evenings, anxiety would knock on my door. The realization that life isn’t endless. That I am not immortal, even though I’d love to be. It was the first time that truly landed. But in the morning I woke up with warmth and peace in my body. A reset. I wondered if a post partum depression would come, like it did with Aleksander.

But it didn’t. It fucking didnt.

And slowly, the evening anxiety softened too (only returns when I’ve been a bit too ambitious).

And here we are. Still a little in-between, but less like the drunk first months.
On one side, I’m still very bamboozled.
And on the other, I simply am. I create. I am a mother.

📸 by @lisannejagerphotography
🌸 by @joyce_khanou

At the moment I still feel very much like one with Louise. I’m deeply grateful that, 6 months postpartum, I can still exist a little in this kind of in-between world in my head. Not in that hazy, almost drunken way right after birth, but just enough that I feel generally very content.

And Louise too, she carries that same sense of contentment. And something deeply feminine. Something I now realize I was missing.

Postpartum months feel filled with an intense duality for me. I am a multi layered person, but in these times it magnifies.

On the first day post-partum, I was love drunk, marveling at the tiny toes of this little (not so little) girl I had just birthed. On the other side, I was washing bloody handprints off my body in a sterile bathroom.

In those first weeks, I felt so deep in the layers of life that I almost experienced a kind of clairvoyance. I somehow sensed souls hovering, waiting to be born. And at the same time, I had to relearn how to sleep, because my body went into panic every time I drifted off, ever since the ambulance ride after my hemorrhage.

And then… my doula came, during the worst panic attack of my life, and made me a simple warm drink. Oat milk, chamomile, valerian. That became the turning point. That’s where I learned to sleep again.

In those first months, I felt a peace I had never known before. Real peace. And support. I learned to care for myself, with warmth, with food, with herbs like lady’s mantle and nettle.

And still, in the evenings, anxiety would knock on my door. The realization that life isn’t endless. That I am not immortal, even though I’d love to be. It was the first time that truly landed. But in the morning I woke up with warmth and peace in my body. A reset. I wondered if a post partum depression would come, like it did with Aleksander.

But it didn’t. It fucking didnt.

And slowly, the evening anxiety softened too (only returns when I’ve been a bit too ambitious).

And here we are. Still a little in-between, but less like the drunk first months.
On one side, I’m still very bamboozled.
And on the other, I simply am. I create. I am a mother.

So much work and love ❤️ We are very excited to see the vase being born (she is cooling down in the kiln as we speak)! We are also very eager to show you what weve created in a couple weeks. Were still building and painting and bringing these works - that represent the movement of winter to spring, to life!

Music: Epidemic Sound

#ceramics #birds #delftsblauw #keramiek

So much work and love ❤️ We are very excited to see the vase being born (she is cooling down in the kiln as we speak)! We are also very eager to show you what weve created in a couple weeks. Were still building and painting and bringing these works - that represent the movement of winter to spring, to life!

Music: Epidemic Sound

#ceramics #birds #delftsblauw #keramiek

Hi kippie 🐔
Build by @lydiaelisabethpottery and painted by me (with @botzglazes unidekor). We are launching our awakening collection at April 22th!

This is a kippie that I spotted while staying @hetlagenoorden which I hope to return to somewhere in the future!

#ceramics #ceramicspainting #delftsblauw #delftsblue #keramiek

Hi kippie 🐔
Build by @lydiaelisabethpottery and painted by me (with @botzglazes unidekor). We are launching our awakening collection at April 22th!

This is a kippie that I spotted while staying @hetlagenoorden which I hope to return to somewhere in the future!

#ceramics #ceramicspainting #delftsblauw #delftsblue #keramiek

Lekker kleien aan je eigen tafel tijdens Pasen? Kan gewoon! Ik bezorg het pakket en haal je werk weer op, zodat je lekker op je eigen tempo aan de slag kunt. Alle info kun je vinden in de link in mijn bio! 🐣

Meedoen met een groepje van 4 of meer? Stuur een berichtje en dan krijg je 15% kortings! ✌️☀️

Music by Epidemic Sound - Little Kid, Johannes Bornlof

#groningen #crookedgarden #creatieveworkshop #keramiek #klei

Lekker kleien aan je eigen tafel tijdens Pasen? Kan gewoon! Ik bezorg het pakket en haal je werk weer op, zodat je lekker op je eigen tempo aan de slag kunt. Alle info kun je vinden in de link in mijn bio! 🐣

Meedoen met een groepje van 4 of meer? Stuur een berichtje en dan krijg je 15% kortings! ✌️☀️

Music by Epidemic Sound - Little Kid, Johannes Bornlof

#groningen #crookedgarden #creatieveworkshop #keramiek #klei

Ahhh ❤️❤️��❤️❤️

#ceramics #vase #delftsblauw #groningen #friesland

Ahhh ❤️❤️❤️❤️

#ceramics #vase #delftsblauw #groningen #friesland

Je kunt je nog tot 10 maart aanmelden voor de Vrije Vogel aquarel cursus! Link in de bio!

Deze cursus volg je vanuit huis, voor €145,- krijg je een aquarel journey van:

- 5 zondagen lang vanaf 22 maart een uitgebreide les van minstens 1 uur (met bonusmateriaal) in je mail.

- Les in verschillende schildertechnieken, van decoratief, naar restruimte, tekenen vanuit de natuur en alles combineren tot een prachtige uitgebreide illustratie. Ik leer je vogels schilderen zoals ik dat doe!

- Een compleet tekenpakket waarmee je alles van de lessen kan doen (gevuld met mijn favoriete materialen, die ik zelf ook gebruik, waaronder een hoge kwaliteits tube aquarel + handgemaakt keramiek paletje).

- Persoonlijke feedback van een professionele kunstenaar. Ik leer je wat ik leerde op de kunstacademie!

- Optioneel: toegang tot een gezellige appgroep waar we onze werken delen

Van de klanten van de pilot die van start ging in januari hoor ik veelal dat ze nu anders kijken naar de wereld om hun heen, ze zien de penseelstroken in het water en de restruimte om de vogels. Ze hebben zichzelf verbaast, vanaf les 1 en ik ben best wel trots! Wees welkom om mee te doen, en voor vragen ben ik hier!

(Muziek van Epidemic Sound)

#vrijevogel #aquarelcursus #vogel #delftsblauw #schilderen

Je kunt je nog tot 10 maart aanmelden voor de Vrije Vogel aquarel cursus! Link in de bio!

Deze cursus volg je vanuit huis, voor €145,- krijg je een aquarel journey van:

- 5 zondagen lang vanaf 22 maart een uitgebreide les van minstens 1 uur (met bonusmateriaal) in je mail.

- Les in verschillende schildertechnieken, van decoratief, naar restruimte, tekenen vanuit de natuur en alles combineren tot een prachtige uitgebreide illustratie. Ik leer je vogels schilderen zoals ik dat doe!

- Een compleet tekenpakket waarmee je alles van de lessen kan doen (gevuld met mijn favoriete materialen, die ik zelf ook gebruik, waaronder een hoge kwaliteits tube aquarel + handgemaakt keramiek paletje).

- Persoonlijke feedback van een professionele kunstenaar. Ik leer je wat ik leerde op de kunstacademie!

- Optioneel: toegang tot een gezellige appgroep waar we onze werken delen

Van de klanten van de pilot die van start ging in januari hoor ik veelal dat ze nu anders kijken naar de wereld om hun heen, ze zien de penseelstroken in het water en de restruimte om de vogels. Ze hebben zichzelf verbaast, vanaf les 1 en ik ben best wel trots! Wees welkom om mee te doen, en voor vragen ben ik hier!

(Muziek van Epidemic Sound)

#vrijevogel #aquarelcursus #vogel #delftsblauw #schilderen

Meet the beginnings of the AWAKENING collection! Hi spring, @lydiaelisabethpottery and me are ready for you! We are aiming to launch this collection on April 1th ❤️🦆

#awakeningcollection #ceramicscollab #ceramics #handpaintedceramics #birdsdrawing

Meet the beginnings of the AWAKENING collection! Hi spring, @lydiaelisabethpottery and me are ready for you! We are aiming to launch this collection on April 1th ❤️🦆

#awakeningcollection #ceramicscollab #ceramics #handpaintedceramics #birdsdrawing

Krimstermolen ❤️ Handpinched and handpainted ceramic stoneware cup (gift for brother, love how the mill turned out).

#ceramics #pinchpot #groningen #delftsblauw #suggestionpainting

Krimstermolen ❤️ Handpinched and handpainted ceramic stoneware cup (gift for brother, love how the mill turned out).

#ceramics #pinchpot #groningen #delftsblauw #suggestionpainting

It all starts with one stripe ❤️

Finishing up the Vrije Vogel course as we speak. Many many hours of testing, filming and editing have gone into her the past months and it feels like.. a legacy thing? She now exists, I can build upon her further and show and teach how I like to draw, in the way that I’ve developed in all the years since I’ve been drawing.

Weirdly, now that Ive really puzzled out how it is that I actually work, I can create bigger paintings now quite easily. Which is an unexpected nice gift? Iiii like it. Ok end of random thought dump, I need to edit around 1.5 more hours of footage and then she’s complete!

Music by Epidemic Sound

#delftsblauw #watercolor #aquarel #aquarelcursus #tekenen

It all starts with one stripe ❤️

Finishing up the Vrije Vogel course as we speak. Many many hours of testing, filming and editing have gone into her the past months and it feels like.. a legacy thing? She now exists, I can build upon her further and show and teach how I like to draw, in the way that I’ve developed in all the years since I’ve been drawing.

Weirdly, now that Ive really puzzled out how it is that I actually work, I can create bigger paintings now quite easily. Which is an unexpected nice gift? Iiii like it. Ok end of random thought dump, I need to edit around 1.5 more hours of footage and then she’s complete!

Music by Epidemic Sound

#delftsblauw #watercolor #aquarel #aquarelcursus #tekenen

Nothing more, nothing less ❤️

#atelier

Nothing more, nothing less ❤️

#atelier

A small selection of works, that have flown to new homes across Europe ❤️ All created on stoneware clay.

Me and @esther.brinkers.ceramics drove through the province to @kunstcentrum_de_ploeg today and I desperately desire to bike through the fields again and be one with the silence and wind and the birds. Soooon!

#ceramics #suggestionpainting #delftsblauw #delftsblue #tiles

A small selection of works, that have flown to new homes across Europe ❤️ All created on stoneware clay.

Me and @esther.brinkers.ceramics drove through the province to @kunstcentrum_de_ploeg today and I desperately desire to bike through the fields again and be one with the silence and wind and the birds. Soooon!

#ceramics #suggestionpainting #delftsblauw #delftsblue #tiles

Something that I’ve struggled with in painting is knowing ‘when to stop’. I tended to go on and on and by doing so, somewhere losing the big picture in the process.
When I started painting on ceramics, it became way more clear when a painting was finished. Simply because when I’d add on too much layers, the glaze would start to bubble in the kiln. Plus, with pink paint (which turns blue in the kiln) you cant exactly see what youre doing anyway, so I let perfection go and just gave it a good shot.

After practicing this for a couple years now, I made a watercolor painting for my drawing course, yesterday. Totally forgetting about my initial struggle, I just simply applied the process of what I do on the ceramics. And all of a sudden it hit me - I finally know when to stop! I finally know how to paint in the way that I want on paper. And I accidentally got here.

So here you go, a random very early morning share. Have a good day!

#delftsblauw #delftsblue #heron #zilverreiger #watercolor #watercolorlovers #aquarel #winsornewton #suggestionpainting #illustration #bluepainting #blueillustration #delftsblueillustration #delftsblauweillustratie #bird #birdillustration #birdart

Something that I’ve struggled with in painting is knowing ‘when to stop’. I tended to go on and on and by doing so, somewhere losing the big picture in the process.
When I started painting on ceramics, it became way more clear when a painting was finished. Simply because when I’d add on too much layers, the glaze would start to bubble in the kiln. Plus, with pink paint (which turns blue in the kiln) you cant exactly see what youre doing anyway, so I let perfection go and just gave it a good shot.

After practicing this for a couple years now, I made a watercolor painting for my drawing course, yesterday. Totally forgetting about my initial struggle, I just simply applied the process of what I do on the ceramics. And all of a sudden it hit me - I finally know when to stop! I finally know how to paint in the way that I want on paper. And I accidentally got here.

So here you go, a random very early morning share. Have a good day!

#delftsblauw #delftsblue #heron #zilverreiger #watercolor #watercolorlovers #aquarel #winsornewton #suggestionpainting #illustration #bluepainting #blueillustration #delftsblueillustration #delftsblauweillustratie #bird #birdillustration #birdart

Laatste dag (10 januari) om je aan te melden voor de online Vrije Vogel tekencursus! 🦆
Dan ga ik volgende week de tekenpakketten inpakken en dan gaan we zondag de 18e van start!

Je leert dan in vier uitgebreide videolessen om:

- decoratief een vogel te schilderen (leuk voor een mooie illustratie voor aan de muur, of voor kaartjes om te versturen)
- werken met rest ruimte, hoe teken je een vogel in een omgeving en hoe creëer je textuur?
- te tekenen vanuit wat je buiten ziet, in lijnwerken
- deze technieken te combineren tot een uitgebreide illustratie met leven erin

Extra:
- bonus video materiaal voor als je niet wilt stoppen
- informatie over aquarel

Ik zorg voor alles: een compleet tekenpakket met de materialen die ik zelf ook gebruik, een helder kader en een rustige, inspirerende sfeer (we werken deze lessen alleen met blauw, zodat keuzestress wegvalt).

En dan kun je lekker aan de slag vanuit je eigen warme nest.

Investering: €95,- inclusief 21% btw, tekenpakket, verzending, persoonlijke feedback en deze vier lessen die met zorg zijn gemaakt.

#vogelstekenen #creatief #creatievecursus

Laatste dag (10 januari) om je aan te melden voor de online Vrije Vogel tekencursus! 🦆
Dan ga ik volgende week de tekenpakketten inpakken en dan gaan we zondag de 18e van start!

Je leert dan in vier uitgebreide videolessen om:

- decoratief een vogel te schilderen (leuk voor een mooie illustratie voor aan de muur, of voor kaartjes om te versturen)
- werken met rest ruimte, hoe teken je een vogel in een omgeving en hoe creëer je textuur?
- te tekenen vanuit wat je buiten ziet, in lijnwerken
- deze technieken te combineren tot een uitgebreide illustratie met leven erin

Extra:
- bonus video materiaal voor als je niet wilt stoppen
- informatie over aquarel

Ik zorg voor alles: een compleet tekenpakket met de materialen die ik zelf ook gebruik, een helder kader en een rustige, inspirerende sfeer (we werken deze lessen alleen met blauw, zodat keuzestress wegvalt).

En dan kun je lekker aan de slag vanuit je eigen warme nest.

Investering: €95,- inclusief 21% btw, tekenpakket, verzending, persoonlijke feedback en deze vier lessen die met zorg zijn gemaakt.

#vogelstekenen #creatief #creatievecursus

You have 4 days left to sign up if you’d like to join the Vrije Vogel online drawing course (Dutch spoken)! Link in bio ❤️

Now home again, feeding an L. that slowly falls asleep on my chest and waiting for an A. to get out of school, fantasizing about making a better tiny snowman before he does his nap. Days are a bit of a juggle, but they are good days and I’m very thankfull for my husband whos a hardworking teamplaya 🦆

❤️

#studiolife #momartist #artist #drawing #atelier #dayinthelife #slowmorning #samoyed #snow #birds #momartistlife #calmmorning #artistlife

You have 4 days left to sign up if you’d like to join the Vrije Vogel online drawing course (Dutch spoken)! Link in bio ❤️

Now home again, feeding an L. that slowly falls asleep on my chest and waiting for an A. to get out of school, fantasizing about making a better tiny snowman before he does his nap. Days are a bit of a juggle, but they are good days and I’m very thankfull for my husband whos a hardworking teamplaya 🦆

❤️

#studiolife #momartist #artist #drawing #atelier #dayinthelife #slowmorning #samoyed #snow #birds #momartistlife #calmmorning #artistlife

Slow mornings ❤️ Louise lounges against my raised knees, tiny feet press against my chest. I hear Johan telling Aleksander in the bathroom that the dentist said that he needs to wash his hair. ‘No he did not..’, Aleksander responds.

#softcolors #cup #ceramics

Slow mornings ❤️ Louise lounges against my raised knees, tiny feet press against my chest. I hear Johan telling Aleksander in the bathroom that the dentist said that he needs to wash his hair. ‘No he did not..’, Aleksander responds.

#softcolors #cup #ceramics

Mindfull en nieuwschierigheids prikkelend, laten we vogels gaan tekenen (en ook een keertje naar buiten gaan!). Deze online cursus is €95,- incl. tekenpakket, verzending en persoonlijke feedback. Ik doe met je mee, let’s goo 🦆

Aanmelden kan t/m 10 januari! Dan heb ik nog even de tijd om de pakketjes in elkaar te zetten en te verzenden ❤️

Muziek: Epidemic Sound, Anna Lodström

#eencreatiefbeginvan2026 #2026 #creatief #delftsblauw #vogels #mindfull #vogelskijken #vogelstekenen #groningen #bedum #creatiefgroningen #pleinairdrawing #buitentekenen #maarookbinnen #tekencursus #tekenworkshop

Mindfull en nieuwschierigheids prikkelend, laten we vogels gaan tekenen (en ook een keertje naar buiten gaan!). Deze online cursus is €95,- incl. tekenpakket, verzending en persoonlijke feedback. Ik doe met je mee, let’s goo 🦆

Aanmelden kan t/m 10 januari! Dan heb ik nog even de tijd om de pakketjes in elkaar te zetten en te verzenden ❤️

Muziek: Epidemic Sound, Anna Lodström

#eencreatiefbeginvan2026 #2026 #creatief #delftsblauw #vogels #mindfull #vogelskijken #vogelstekenen #groningen #bedum #creatiefgroningen #pleinairdrawing #buitentekenen #maarookbinnen #tekencursus #tekenworkshop

Professionally, 2025 was the year of discovering the ‘thuisworkshops’ which gave me a much more fitting way of creating a sustainable income (AND an open door to my love of film and editing).
I’ve also sold out two collection updates within a couple days, which was a first that I’ve dreamed about for a while. The most expensive cup that I’ve sold was €95,- and I’m proud of that - because it’s not the easiest thing to sell functional art. You always have this competition with mass producers going on and people who have never heared of pinchpotting and how slow that is!!

Unprofessionally, it was the year of putting warmth in a crooked and cold spot in my heart - that I have carried all my life, but which got a painful spotlight when Aleksander was born. I’m afraid that I didn’t know how to properly love (myself). But because of him, I had the guts to relentlessly jump of a cliff into hardcore therapy, burnouts and letting go of my own ‘fantasy parents’ (and some friends) that I had made up in my mind - which kids often do to get through difficult times.

This resulted in the final challenge of them all: daring to go for a second child. This was that year and I stepped into it with wobbly knees, but with horns lowered. It was time. And so (after a pregnancy that wrecked me), Louise saw the light of day, and upon her exit put her tiny hand on my chest and melted the cold (of generations old?). Gifting me the pink post partum cloud that I’ve always thought that people had made up.

I now finally get to enjoy my baby (made possible by my first baby). And thats the best feeling that I have ever experienced. I am very aware what a huge privilege this is. So I take it, I bathe in it. With my all.

Cheers to a 2026 filled with love, sister-from another-mister-hood (because we NEED eachother) and celebrating our celestial-stepping-through-the-portal being. We woman have the superpower to have one foot in an invisible dimension of life and are beyond mindblowing by doing so. I bow to 2025 and I bow to life. Wtf!

Professionally, 2025 was the year of discovering the ‘thuisworkshops’ which gave me a much more fitting way of creating a sustainable income (AND an open door to my love of film and editing).
I’ve also sold out two collection updates within a couple days, which was a first that I’ve dreamed about for a while. The most expensive cup that I’ve sold was €95,- and I’m proud of that - because it’s not the easiest thing to sell functional art. You always have this competition with mass producers going on and people who have never heared of pinchpotting and how slow that is!!

Unprofessionally, it was the year of putting warmth in a crooked and cold spot in my heart - that I have carried all my life, but which got a painful spotlight when Aleksander was born. I’m afraid that I didn’t know how to properly love (myself). But because of him, I had the guts to relentlessly jump of a cliff into hardcore therapy, burnouts and letting go of my own ‘fantasy parents’ (and some friends) that I had made up in my mind - which kids often do to get through difficult times.

This resulted in the final challenge of them all: daring to go for a second child. This was that year and I stepped into it with wobbly knees, but with horns lowered. It was time. And so (after a pregnancy that wrecked me), Louise saw the light of day, and upon her exit put her tiny hand on my chest and melted the cold (of generations old?). Gifting me the pink post partum cloud that I’ve always thought that people had made up.

I now finally get to enjoy my baby (made possible by my first baby). And thats the best feeling that I have ever experienced. I am very aware what a huge privilege this is. So I take it, I bathe in it. With my all.

Cheers to a 2026 filled with love, sister-from another-mister-hood (because we NEED eachother) and celebrating our celestial-stepping-through-the-portal being. We woman have the superpower to have one foot in an invisible dimension of life and are beyond mindblowing by doing so. I bow to 2025 and I bow to life. Wtf!

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