Experience in Landscape and Time
Arrival here is never abrupt.
It happens gradually, through water, wind, and distance.
During Kunstschouw Zeeland, artists are invited to exhibit across Schouwen-Duiveland, in carefully selected locations centered around Burghsluis. Not in neutral white spaces, but in places that already carry history, barns, gardens, edges of land and sea.
I exhibited in Schuur De Wilde, a large open barn in Scharendijke.
For the entire period, I stayed with the work.
A Place That Holds the Work
The barn was not a backdrop, but part of the experience. Its scale, its openness, the way light entered and shifted throughout the day, everything influenced how the work was seen.
Visitors arrived continuously. By bike, by car, on foot. Many from abroad.
Once in Zeeland, they moved through the route slowly, stopping, looking, returning.
We welcomed them at the entrance, often from a simple chair or standing in the open doorway. Conversations unfolded naturally. People took time. They spoke about what they saw, but also about what they felt.
That exchange became part of the work.
Working Outside, Working Within
There was space to move between inside and outside.
At times I stepped out to draw.
On a blanket in the grass, on an old wall of the farm, or near the entrance of the barn. Not to capture the landscape, but to stay with it. To follow what was shifting in light, in rhythm, in attention.
Those sketches were not separate from the paintings.
They were part of the same process, moments of looking, translating, and letting something emerge.
Back in the studio, that way of working continues. A painting builds itself over time, through layers, pauses, and adjustments. Sometimes moving from uncertainty, from chaos to surrender, as something begins to take shape.
This process, where the image gradually takes shape, is something I describe further in how a painting develops in the studio.
Conversations and Encounters
Kunstschouw is not only about showing work. It is about presence.
I stood there every day, together with a small group of artists who formed a kind of core throughout the week. We spoke, listened, observed. The rhythm of the days was shaped by the flow of visitors and the quiet moments in between.
Many works found new homes. Collectors responded directly, often after longer conversations. What stayed with me most, though, were the exchanges, the different ways people connected to the work, each from their own perspective.
the harbor and artist life
Living With the Landscape
During that period, my husband and I lived on our boat in the harbor of Burghsluis.
A fishing boat, save and direct.
He went out on the water regularly, catching fish, cooking, sharing. Evenings became something else entirely: long, generous dinners, prepared with care and intuition. Food moving through hands, just like the work.
The harbor has remained. It has become a second place.
Not separate from the studio, but an extension of it.
Sometimes I go out on the water with him. The life below the surface, sea anemones, fish, movement, depth, is constant, layered, and never fully visible. It shifts how you look, how you think about space.
The air there carries something different. Not the dunes of Noordwijk, but a broader, more open horizon. It enters the work in ways that are not always visible, but always present.
a different sensitivity
What Remains
Kunstschouw Zeeland does not end when the route closes.
What remains is not a single image, but a way of looking. This artist experience during Kunstschouw Zeeland stayed with me. A sensitivity to movement, to change, to the subtle shifts that happen when you allow yourself to stay with something a little longer.
You are welcome
If you want to see how this way of working continues beyond the landscape, you are welcome to visit my studio.
available work
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