Texilemuseum part two

Samira Boon


Wieki Somers



Mariette Wolbert
Peter Struyken

Petra Vonk

Arjan van Arendonk

Another post about the Texilemuseum. A few great examples which are on show in the textile lab. I don't know all the names of the artists, but I wrote down a few.

About:blank

A few weeks ago I was asked to design a header and a wallpaper for the blog about(:)blank (a Dutch blog about blogging, written by bloggers). So I sent in these designs, a combination of my textures and collages. Thanks Aukje, for giving me this opportunity!

Giuseppe Penone

About a week ago I visited a favorite museum of mine De Pont in Tilburg. They had an exhibition of Giuseppe Penone, an Italian artist. Penone is the younger member of the Italian movement named 'Arte Povera' (poor art). Penone's work is concerned with establishing a contact between man and nature. The exhibition was quite big but only showed a small part of his beautiful and interesting work. The 'paintings' above look like the pattern on a handpalm from far off. But getting closer you see the big canvas is filled with thousands of Acacia thorns. Very impressive.

Our family tree

Last weekend we celebrated my parents 50th wedding anniversary. I made them a gift full of memories: a family tree with pictures of all the children and grandchildren. Even the cat and 3 dogs were part of the tree.
I designed the tree in Adobe Indesign and used my own handdrawn textures in the background. I had it printed on canvas. It was my first canvas print, so I was a bit nervous. But I was very pleased with the result. So were my parents...

Discovering the reds

First year in Art College, experimenting with colours and material. My favourite colours, shades of red.

ABC on a string

Sooooo lovely, these handmade letters by Zim and Zou. Wish I had this great idea! I remember making a 'picture' like that when I was young. Such a great idea. Have a look at their website and discover some more fantastic concepts.

Texture obsession

I made this sewing machine practice when I was little. As you can see I still make the same kinds of textures, I do them with pen and paper now. I only noticed the connection a few weeks ago.

Henk Cornelissen

Henk Cornelissen was my graphic design teacher for 4 years at Art-college in Breda (st. Joost). He had a big influence on me during my study and when I see his work I can still see why. His work is based upon the idea of coincidence. He makes coincidental patterns and textures. He creates his work on 50x65 cm size paper within strict boundaries.

I love patterns and textures and I admire artists or designers who's work is based upon a certain sense of persistency. When I come to think of it, that might have started when I was in Art-college...

Somewhat red and somewhat brown

The first year in Art-college is a year of playing around with materials, colours, textures, ideas and concepts. Lots of drawing, painting, but also 3-dimensional work. Most of the time it was a lot of hard work!
This small book is a colourstudy. I think I might scan is sometime to use the textures as a background for illustrations or something else. I'll definately find a destination for them!

Doodling in a new Moleskine

I always fear the white pages of a new notebook, especially if it's a Moleskine... I don't want to blemish it. The result is that I have a lot of empty notebooks on the bookshelf. But this time I went ahead and started scribbling and doodling. Great, 'cause these textures are the result of that effort.

George Bates

Check out George Bates' work. I especially like his sketch book entries, his collages (watch closely and see how he integrates his sketches into his collages) and his rough line works. Sometimes his work is like a beautiful texture. He blogs too.