Celebrating “Sinterklaas!”

🇬🇧 The wonderful evening has come, the evening of Sinterklaas… But we had already celebrated Sinterklaas before, nice and cozy at home with chocolate and ‘pepernoten’ and of course a bag of presents. How spoiled everyone is! Yes, everyone, even mom and dad and Guusje are spoiled with […]

My month in a view: November 2022

🇬🇧 What a month! Building my own studio, painting pumpkins, volunteering for refugees and organising creative activities, celebrating our Dutch holidays Sint Maarten and Sinterklaas, finishing my family photo yearbooks, volunteering kids crafts in our library, finally painting again and new assignments for parrot portraits… I can say […]

Studio update

🇬🇧 Here’s an update about my studio! I had to wait for two years and now that it’s finally happening and I’m so happy! There’s a lot of mess and noise… but I’ll take it. 😉 I can’t wait for it to finish! 🇳🇱 Hier een update over mijn […]

Creative activities for refugees

🇬🇧 I’ve already spent a few wonderful days crafting with the refugees in our village! As soon as I can, I visit and take several creative activities with me. I gave all children their own portfolio (a file with empty sheets) in which they can draw and craft […]

Exhibition Art class 6+ coming up!

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 19th there will be an exhibition from Art class 6+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

Sint Maarten

🇬🇧 What a lovely evening we had! Earlier this week I’ve been busy making a treat for all the kids. Well… for 50 children. If I’d known there were going to be so many kids, I’d have at least doubled it! Soon the first children came to the […]

Exhibition Art class 9+ coming up!

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 9th there will be an exhibition from Art class 9+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

Refugee crisis emergency shelter

🇬🇧 This has nothing to do with art (not yet, just wait) but this week we got a refugee crisis emergency shelter in our town. I decided to take a look at the walk-in they organised.  The place is sober, but neat. They did their best to make […]

Teaming up!

🇬🇧 I will be teaming up with Rianne @vankliedertotkunst for many creative projects in the near future. More info coming soon. I’m so excited! 🎨 🇳🇱 Ik ga de komende tijd voor veel creatieve projecten samenwerken met Rianne @vankliedertotkunst. Binnenkort meer informatie. Ik heb er zo’n zin in! 🎨

Happy Halloween!

Ghosts & goblinsspooks galorescary witchesat your door Jack-o-lanternssmiling brightwishing youa haunting night!