Artists from the studio building de 6sprong are exhibiting paintings, installations, drawings, prints, ceramics, and textile works and installations.
Since 2019, the foundation 6sprong aan de Roombeek has managed the building that used to house the open-air school on Kottendijk. The building contains studios that are mainly rented by visual artists. But writers, designers, musicians, and ceramists have also found their place in the 6sprong.
This autumn they will exhibit their work at Concordia.
The Artists
Adrienne van Wartum
The explorations I do at the 6sprong give me a fresh view of the reality around us, and by using various materials and techniques I depict a “new” reality and make it visible in oil paint, acrylic paint, prints, and mixed media.
Starting points include landscapes, human figures, and nature, and the final results remain recognizable, but not abstract: by leaving out more and more (mainly through endless sketching during research) I come closer to the (my) essence.
Anne Huizing
Anne prefers to create functional ware that is beautiful in itself and which, through use, makes meals, flowers, or delicacies even more attractive. She mainly works with stoneware clay, but porcelain has always fascinated her with its silky texture and radiant white appearance. Anne’s work combines simplicity, balance, and beauty, drawing inspiration from shapes around her, architecture, and nature.
Bregje Lulofs
Bregje is a draftswoman specializing in linocuts. She creates free work but also works on commission.
Clemens Jongma
Clemens Jongma (1960) combines an artistic eye with an analytical view. He enjoys experimenting with the art of omission. He edits digital photos until only the essence remains. His subjects include architecture, urban planning, nature, design, and their tensions.
Etta Maduro
Until 2020 her work fell under the label “lyrical abstract.” Since 2020, partly due to the corona period, she has felt the need to let that go and take a new path. Her work has therefore changed: the restrained colors and forms have given way to exuberance and multicolor.
Eva Meijer
As a mixed-media artist, Eva uses various techniques and materials and works both three-dimensionally—often creating site-specific works—as well as on flat surfaces and with video. The choice of technique or combination is partly determined by the subject, with increasing interest lately in various non-toxic graphic techniques.
Femke Kloppenburg
For Femke, art provides grounding in life. Her heart lies with, among other things, nature ritual art, fairy tales, mythological stories, spirit dolls, power objects, art brut, performances, and natural instruments such as the ocean drum and the rainstick. Where nature, sound, and art become one... where visible and invisible worlds meet.
She experiences life as a form of synchronicity in which everything is connected. Her favorite medium is textile, especially wool. She loves material with personal meaning, such as an embroidery by her grandmother or something from her childhood.
Fiona Rijpkema
In addition to drawing and painting, Fiona Rijpkema has increasingly focused on printmaking, mainly linocuts and woodcuts. In her current work, she cherishes and combines the inherent duality of both her chosen media—drawing, painting, and printmaking and her chosen themes: her sense of wonder at nature and its mathematical beauty.
Fiona Weide
Fiona prefers to make large-format drawings. She works with mixed techniques and various drawing materials. Her drawings are the result of a visual investigation into abandoned places, which hold great beauty. In the past, she drew inspiration from abandoned landscapes and old industrial buildings. This sparked her interest in “urban exploring” and the ambivalent character such places bring. Animals in her work reflect the soul of these locations. A sense of stillness appears in many of her drawings.
Janina Stopperka
Janina writes her own songs and sings songs by Bertolt Brecht. The passionate songs of the German playwright deal with the human challenges of 100 years ago. Janina’s own songs are a personal approach to the challenges of our time.
She accompanies herself on piano, which allows her to remain true to herself while also responding to the moment.
Katinka Hamming
Katinka Hamming is a versatile artist whose work is characterized by diverse materials and techniques. In 1995 she obtained her diploma in ceramics at the AKI in Enschede.
Her work consists of hand-formed clay sculptures built from different segments, often exhibited in groups. In addition to clay, she also enjoys working with other materials such as concrete, mosaic, natural materials, and textiles. Her inspiration comes from small details in her environment, such as insect structures and leaf veins.
Maarten Dalstra
He paints exclusively from direct observation. Everyday things that an untrained eye would overlook. Situations showing interesting colors, reflections, light, or chaos are a reason to paint. In this way Maarten portrays city, cat, human, dishes, clutter, and garbage bin.
He prefers to work quickly, often finishing a painting in one session, mainly alla prima with oil paint. He finds inspiration in contemporary plein air painters, both national and international. Painting on location requires quick action because of the changing nature of light and subject. Through this interplay of painting and chaos, expressive and unique works emerge that could not have been created in the studio.
Petra Smit
Inspired by the world around her nature, buildings, structures. Petra often uses her own photographs as a starting point for a composition on canvas. Soon the photo is put aside and she continues with what unfolds on the canvas.
Subjects are abundant, but sometimes she lingers longer on a theme, such as her current architectural compositions. When a subject continues to fascinate her, it can develop into a series in which the theme is explored more deeply.
René Völker
Connection. That is what it is about. In the broadest sense of the word. Connections between the materials used a nail, screw, or wood glue that hold things together. But above all the connection between the object and the viewer. The materials are reused, sometimes waste. But here they are given new meaning. Some parts also carry personal meaning, like a leftover piece of wood that once formed part of a shelving unit from his childhood home.
He selects materials based on form, color, and structure. There is no clear plan. The object emerges through an intuitive process, through association. There is a connection to building, cities, and conscious handling of materials and resources.
Saara-Maarit Reijn
She creates artworks under the name Helium Horse. In her work she uses different techniques and materials to explore concepts such as wonder, hope, play, and freedom. She strives for the ultimate experience of shifting her perspective or reaching new understanding. This gives her a wonderful sense of space and endless possibilities.
Her materials range from acrylic paint, photography, and linocut to programming and coding. She loves to experiment and discover new ways to visualize ideas. Her inspiration comes from her love of nature and her son, but also from more abstract subjects such as mathematics and photonics.
Sandra Frölich
In her visual work she explores feelings, questions, desires, and conflicts that live within her. In dialogue with the material, what she discovers and experiences gradually takes shape outside herself. Words then help give meaning to what reveals itself. The images and texts she creates are testimonies of herself. At the same time, they also prove to be mirrors for others, in which they meet and recognize themselves.
She uses various materials and techniques (mixed media): she chooses what fits in dialogue with the image that unfolds step by step and transforms layer by layer. It is no coincidence that she writes above: I make myself.