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SPAR VIRTUAL RESIDENCY 2, spring 2020, Mariëlle van den Bergh
April 11, 2020
We’re still on the Dutch Wadden Island of Terschelling. Almost every day we take a long walk or make a bicycle trip. We have visited the Wadden Islands regularly for years, but we never saw the place as quiet, even desolate, as it is now.
Many Dutch followed our Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s instructions to stay at home. So most of the tourists stay away. When the Corona pandemic became serious, we already were here, and we extended our stay because our home region of Brabant was the most serious Corona hot spot in the country.
In the mean time, our work went on. It took me quite a few hours exercising my calligraphy to get the hang of it again. On our walks we take pictures of the landscape, which were a starting point for my brush drawings, using India Ink and rice paper.
I try out various painting techniques and change the way I handle the brush. The last series of drawings were made outside, sitting on the beach, en plein air with my painting stuff, and using rubber bands to fasten the paper to a piece of cardboard.
Van Luong (1)
Kjell Zillen (4)
Mels Dees (9)
Gao Yu (4)Katya Lebedev (1)
Juan Dies (1)
Anastasia Prahova (2)Nena Nastasiya (7)
Taarn Scott (6)
Cynthia Fusillo (20)Roberta Orlando (8)
Nanda Raemansky (25)
Eliane Velozo (22)Leyya Mona Tawil (1)
Julia Dubovyk (2)
Jianglong (2)
Iara Abreu (23)
Agathe Simon (1)Rosetta Allan (1)
Elizaveta Ostapenko (5)
Valentin Boiangiu (2)
Wesley John Fourie (9)
Renato Roque (3)Rosa Gauditano (5)
Neerajj Mittra (34)
Ciana Fitzgerald (5)
Boris Moz (3)
Katerina Muravuova (5)Kyla Bernberg (1)
Muyuan He (1)Liza Odinokikh (2)
Amalia Gil-Merino (2)Paulo Carvalho Ferreira (6)
Anastasiia Komissarova (2)
Yumiko Ono (1)
Stefania Smolkina (1)Lena Adasheva (1)
Zahar Al-Dabbagh (1)
Emily Orzech (6)
Fernanda Olivares (5)
Noor van der Brugge (3)
Ira Papadopoulou (2)
Tom Chambers (8)
Titi Gutierrez (3)
Franz Wanner (2)
Crystal Marshall (6)
Transpositions III (36)
Riddhi Patel (3)
Michele Kishita (2)Damian Carlton (4)
Deanna Sirlin (1)
Laura Salerno (3)
Nina Annabelle Märkl (12)
Elina Fattakhova (1)
Tasha Hurley (1)
Ian Hartley (2)
Laurence de Valmy (2)
Ilia Bouslakov (5)
Andrea Ahuactzin Pintos (4)
Sveta Nosova (3)Carlos Carvalho (1)
Maria Timofeeva (1)
Jinn Bug (2)
Johannes Gerard (3)Irène Mélix (1)
Aba Lluch Dalena (3)
Fabian Reimann (1)Natalia Gourova (1)
Kate Finkelstein (4)Raina Greifer (1)
James McCann (2)
Naza del Rosal Ortiz (1)
Jay Critchley Jay Critchley (1)
Vicky Clarke (4)
Maria Silva (4)
Shir Cohen (5)
Peter Shenai (4)
Bo Choy (4)Alina Orlov (2)
Olga Popova (3)
Coco Spencer (2)
Filippo Fabbri (2)Daniele Leonardo (5)
SISTERS HOPE (1)
Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt (4)
Anne Fehres & Luke Conroy (6)
Olesya Ilenok (2)
Marie-Eve Levasseur (4)
Natalia Tikhonova (2)Ildar Iakubov (1)
Evgeniy Lukuta (7)
Jarkko Räsänen (5)Maria Guta (6)
Egle Kulbokaite Dorota Gaweda (6)
Thomas Kotik (1)
Andrea Stanislav (3)Ludmila Belova (1)
Alena Levina (1)
Ilia Symphocat (2)Yevgeniy Fiks (1)
Star Trauth (18)
Jyoti Arvey (1)
Les Joynes (2)
Ekaterina Ivanova (1)
Lev Shusharichev (1)Michael Stebackov (5)
Ryan Griffith (3)
3 Comments
Dear Mariëlle, thank you for sharing! The pic of you drawing on the beach is so peaceful! How cold is it? Is it windy?
These Wadden islands have always a lower temperature than the mainland of the Netherlands. I think last week it was maybe 20 degrees there and we had 10 or 12 degrees on Terschelling. On the beach it is usually windy as well. But the landscape is pristine, so beautiful. Air is unpolluted and life is less a hassle as in our urban home situation, Eindhoven. For an artist this corona lock down at Terschelling is not bad at all. Time to focus on art and to cycle or walk around at the island and enjoy the landscape.
Dear Mariëlle,
Thank you for sharing the drawings, I liked them a lot. They feel so natural and calm. The ones from April 1st look like reflections in water. A river? Lake? Puddle?
Also — so lovely to see you on the beach! A warm hug.