Willemijn de Greef and Ineke Heerkens

Atelier en Route wants to stimulate jewellery artist and students of art academies by offering them a place to work in a different environment apart from their studio or school situation. The workshop is located in one of the stables on a former farmyard about 200km nordwest of Paris, 10km from the coast in the department Somme (Picardy, France)

Workshop
At Whitsun and during the summer Atelier en Route offers workshops organized by Willemijn de Greef & Marij Bekkers. This year Atelier en Route invites guest teachers Sanne de Vries and Ineke Heerkens to extend the team. The workshop is equipped with workbenches and tools. There is a kiln for porcelain and clay. Next to creating, good food and communication are an important part of the experience.

Workshop (Summer) Willemijn de Greef & Ineke Heerkens (2)
“You get what you see (and more)”

Willemijn de Greef and Ineke Heerkens both studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Willemijn de Greef www.willemijndegreef.nl
The jewellery pieces of Willemijn de Greef are big and monumental. In her work Willemijn researches the boundaries of wearability. Sometimes her work elopes to visual arts. Her work is exhibited in the context of art jewellery and bears in mind the human size. Willemijn forces the spectator to observe what she sees. She perceives things into detail as a jewellery maker does.

Guest teacher Ineke Heerkens www.inekeheerkens.nl takes photographs of the city’s landscape while cycling to her studio. Colourful plastic bags, carelessly thrown away are swept around by the wind. Captured by the camera at full cycling speed the trees and garbage fuse into new images. Ever since her graduation in 2001 Heerkens’ artistic research is about the translation of movement into material and form. An astute observer, she registers both the common and the accidental and narrates about it in her jewellery.

The teachers will guide you on a personal level. The participants will be encouraged to experiment and will be triggered by small assignments to define their own view on jewellery in material and form.

Dates and price

Workshop (Summer) Willemijn de Greef & Ineke Heerkens (2)
22th until the 27th of July 2012
(29th of July there is a flea market in the village and the possibility to exhibit your work)

Workshop 22.Jul.2012 - 27.Jul.2012 (2) € 550,-


Prices include lunch and dinner. For breakfast you’ll find the backery two doors down the road.

You can choose for a bed at the loft of Atelier en Route; € 22.50 per night
We can also help you to find accommodation elsewhere; Hotel, Gîte (authentic house in the village to share with other participants), Camp- site etc.