Der bärtige Kaiser

Work in progress on a large Bartmannkrug, Bellarmine jug or in Dutch Baardmankruik with the title "Der bärtige Kaiser". The Jug is inspired by 17th and 18th century German Bartmannkrugs that were made around Cologne in western Germany. Even in the Netherlands archaeologists often find these stoneware jugs (or the shards) at excavations (I have some of these shards in my collection as well!). The glaze on my Kaiser Jug has a bronze appearance, a special glaze with some unhealthy oxides in the recipe.

The Knight of prosperity and wealth

It was a race against the clock, but it is finished and ready for transport to Denmark for "Life is a casino" show at MOHS exhibit, Copenhagen. The painting is called "De ridder van voorspoed en welvaart" (The Knight of prosperity and wealth), oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm.

The first painting (Mammoth Parade) has arrived in Denmark (according to the "track and trace"). Now hope that it arrives in one piece at the gallery! Picture below shows the work incredible carefully packed and ready for shipping last week.

"Life is a Casino"

http://www.mohs.dk
 

December 2th till December 22th 2011

De ridder van voorspoed en welvaart (The Knight of prosperity and wealth).

"Mammoth parade" ready for shipping last week.

San Bao International Ceramic Museum

Just got this nice little book featuring ceramics that I made in Jingdezhen in October 2010, published by the new San Bao International Ceramic Museum, Jingdezhen, China.

More information in previous posts.

"Life is a Casino"

Working (really) hard now to finish a painting for a group exhibition at the very nice MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The picture below shows a study and a detail of the work in progress.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photograph, the painting is really much better in real, really!

http://www.mohs.dk

02. December - 22. December
John Kenn Mortensen (DK)

Silas Inoue (DK)
Matt Furie (US)

Cirque de Pepin (NL)
Tasha Kusama (US)

Odö (FR)
Wayne Horse (NL)

Christoph Mueller (DE)
Saddo (ROM) 

Jesse Fillingham (US)
Mike Maxwell (US) 

Dieter Van der Ougstraete (BEL)
Mitsy Avila Ovalles (US)

MOHS exhibit

sønder boulevard 98
1720 copenhagen v
denmark

Epoch artists

My work is now featured on the website epochartists.com!
http://www.epochartists.com
Thanks Jamil!

Nanou

I shipped the recently finished commissioned portrait of young Nanou to Belgium last week (see previous message on the Mx dynasty portraits). Thanks to the Dutch and Belgium postal services the package arrived undamaged at its destination!

Interesting detail on this commission is that I never met the girl in real.

Nanou's dad, sir Mx, who gave me the commission wrote an email with the following text when they received the painting:

(due to the coarse language, I can't unfortunately translate the text in English:-):

straalbezopen en stoned als een garnaal bekeek ik vannacht het werk van pepijn van den nieuwendijk…..dzeesus dacht ik toen : dit is een vlaamschen primitief op lsd……wat au fond niet klopt immers ik zie in hem ook  een gast die iedere ochtend keihard gaat doen wat hij best kan : detaillistisch hallucinant schilderen en boetseren als ware hij god zelf…..chappeau voor die gast…..en hij is nog heel betaalbaar…. nu nog   ……       mx
 

Big in China

Crunching computers and ridiculously large files.
For almost two weeks now I am working 24/7 on the design for the "Delft - Jingdezhen 400 year city connection" stand at the China Jingdezhen International Ceramic fair, which will be held at the Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, from Oct.18 to Oct. 22 2011.
My poor little Macbook is working overtime. The files for the banners which are going to be hung on the walls are really huge, and uploading them so they can be printed in Jingdezhen, takes hours.
Here you see a preview with some of the watercolour paintings I made for the project and samples of the design.
One of the coolest things I had to make was a design for a 7 by 6 meter big banner that is going to be hung outside the Great China Museum during the fair!
This project is organized by the city of Delft and Delft Heritage (Erfgoed Delft) in association with Royal delft.

http://www.chinaicf.cn/chinaicf/
http://www.erfgoed-delft.nl/

Watercolour paintings for the Delft-Jingdezhen stand design

Watercolour painting for the Delft-Jingdezhen stand design

Design of the banners for the Delft-Jingdezhen stand

Design for one of the walls of the Delft-Jingdezhen stand