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By: Claudy 16-11-2022

Marianne van Gils, who will soon step aside as curator and head of collections at Museum Kraneburgh in Bergen, put together another exhibition entitled: 'Waar de zee licht is’.

  • Claudy Jongstra, LimeLights, 2021
  • Drenthe heath sheep and merino wool, mohair, silk, cotton, madder, onion peels, St John's wort, walnut, wow
  • 2.95 x 3.40 m
  • Courtesy of Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
By: Claudy 16-05-2019

For Normandy, a new culinary hotspot in urban chic Maastricht, Claudy Jongstra designed a new artwork. A transparent movable partition of 3.25 meters high and 6 meters wide with a natural color palette of wool, for the garden room and the large cafe space.

  • Bar-Restaurent Normandy Maastricht, commissioned by Jo Coenen Architect, The Netherlands 2019
  • Size (m): 5 transparant movable partitions, 3.25 meters high and 6 meters wide
  • Material: natural color palette of Drenth Heath wool
  • Pigements: onion skin, woad, walnut
  • Photo credit ©Arjen Schmitz
By: Claudy 01-11-2018

“Soil is in fact a very vibrant, living community.” Fred Kirschenmann, TEDx Manhattan, 2012
Soil is the living skin of the Earth...this very thin layer where life is possible. ‘Symphony of the Soil’

  • Stone Barnes Center for Food and Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY, U.S.A. 2018
  • Living Soil is donated to Stone Barnes Center for Food and Agriculture by Studio Claudy Jongstra
  • Size (m): 8 panels, 1.37 x 0.76 each, 6.09 m all together
  • Material: Wool Sheep Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
  • Pigments: Indigo, madder, onion skin, woad
  • Wooden frames, added natural acoustic material
  • Photo credit: Jeroen Musch