POTTENBAKKERIJ HOOGLAND

A NEWS LETTER FROM / EEN NIEUWSBRIEF VAN
POTTENBAKKERIJ HOOGLAND
PIM VAN HUISSELING & NIEK HOOGLAND
Hello, we wish everyone a wonderful
2016.
For us, 2016 is a very special year.
This year it is 25 years ago we started
Pottenbakkerij Hoogland.
2016 Promises to be a great year with
beautiful exhibitions, ceramics-fairs and
workshops.
This newsletter is largely meant to
inform you about workshops and masterclasses that Niek will be giving this year.
WORKSHOPS:
“MASTERCLASS DECORATION
TECHNIQUES”
20 FEBRUARI 2015
SYNTRA TONGEREN, BELGIUM.
Since 2002, almost every year I give,
with great pleasure, a masterclass for
the students of the Pottery school at
Syntra in Tongeren.
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“WORKSHOP SLIPWARE DECORATING TECHNIQUES”
1 & 2 APRIL 2016
POTTENBAKKERIJ BAAMBRUGGE, AMSTERDAM,
NETHERLANDS
Margreet Bijpost runs a pottery in Baambrugge, a
small town untouched by the 21st century under the
smoke of Amsterdam.
Margreet has invited me to come and give a workshop
slipware decorating techniques in her studio.
During this two day course, we will explore a variety
of slipware decorating techniques.
Students mainly work on tiles that serve as a base for
the various decoration techniques.
If you want you can bring your own (leatherhard)
work to slip decorate.
info & booking :
[email protected]
[email protected]
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“WORKSHOP WOODFIRED SLIPWARE”
6 Till 17 JUNE 2016
POTTENBAKKERIJ DE WALSBERG, SWALMEN, NETHERLANDS
This year, the third time in a row, after its great
success the last two years, Niek will give a workshop
“Woodfired Slipware” together with friend and
colleague Joop Crompvoets from “Pottenbakkerij de
Walsberg” .
Techniques like slip painting and trailing, sgraffito
and painting with coloured glazes, paper-stencil resist,
combing and marbling will be explored.
The work made by the students will be raw-glazed
and fired in a wood-kiln.
We will also deal with the more theoretical
as well as with the historical side of slipware making.
The course is aimed at mastering the whole
cycle of making, decorating, glazing and firing.
This course is for the more experienced.
Date: June 6 till 17 – 2016.
Place: Pottenbakkerij de Walsberg Swalmen.
Info & booking : www.dewalsberg.nl
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“SLIPWARE MAKING AND DECORATING”
26 Till 28 AUGUST 2016
KIGBEARE STUDIO,
OAKEHAMPTON, DEVON, UK
Kigbeare Studios in Devon have invited Niek to give a
three day workshop of slipware making and decorating.
During every stage of the making Niek will give short
demonstrations of various decorating possibilities.
Date: 26 till 28 August 2016.
Time:
9.30 - 17.00 all three days
Info and booking : [email protected]
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WORKSHOP SLIPWARE DECORATING
22 & 23 OCTOBER 2016
HOEBOER KERAMIEK , THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
Like October last year, this year again Niek will give a
workshop slipware decorating at Hoeboer Keramiek in The
Hague.
Info en boekingen: www.phoeboer.nl
“WORKSHOP SLIBVERSIERD AARDEWERK”
10 & 11 DECEMBER 2016
KERAMIEKCENTRUM DE TIENDSCHUUR,
TEGELEN, NETHERLANDS
At the end of 2016 Niek will give a two day Slipware
Decorating course at the Keramiek Centrum and
Pottenbakkers Museum De Tiendschuur in Tegelen.
De Tiendschuur with it's rich collection is a great place
to view slipware from an historic angle.
During the course we will have access to the museum.
Date: 10 & 11 December
Time: Sa 10 am – 4.30 pm
Su 10 am – 3.30 pm
Info and booking: www.tiendschuur.net/nl/activiteiten/workshops-2016
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EXHIBITIONS
“TEA IS HOT”
15 January till 22 May
KERAMIEKCENTRUM DE
TIENDSCHUUR, TEGELEN
Pim and Niek both have work in this
exhibition, set up in cooperation with the
Keramikmuseum Westerwald in HóhrGrenzhausen
www.tiendschuur.net
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KERAMIEK KRING LIMBURG
28 February till 8 May 2016
MUSEUM LAND VAN VALKENBURG, NETHERLANDS
The annual retrospective exhibition of the Belgian/German/Dutch potters association
KKL will this year be at “Museum Land van Valkenburg” in Valkenburg aan de Geul.
Info: www.museumlandvanvalkenburg.nl
25 YEARS POTTENBAKKERIJ HOOGLAND
OPEN DAGEN / OPEN STUDIO
16 & 17 APRIL 2016
POTTENBAKKERIJ HOOGLAND, STEYL.
16 and 17th of April we have our annual Open Studio Weekend
Like in previous years we like to show our visitors a full
working pottery.
Our former apprentice Dion Kieft who set up a pottery in
Friesland, will demonstrate his skills on the potters-wheel.
Friend and colleague potter Imants Ancans will give raku-firing
demonstrations in the garden of the pottery.
Pim will take care of our pottery shop where we will show our
latest work.
Niek will show how we decorate our work here at
Pottenbakkerij Hoogland.
Datum: 16 & 17 April
Tijd: zaterdag en zondag van 10.00 tot 17.00
POTTENBAKKERIJ HOOGLAND
PIM VAN HUISSELING & NIEK HOOGLAND
Parkstraat 11 B,
NL 5935 BM Steyl-Venlo
0(0 31) 77 3736775
[email protected]
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