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Do you want to buy a sculpture, have a portrait made or do you need a sculpture but you are not sure what exactly? Do you need a custom-made project? I would love to hear from you and will react asap, this is in most cases the next day.

Calling is fast (please think of the time zone, I am in Amsterdam, CET); +31 (0)642350194

Have a lovely day! Saskia

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Wil je een beeld kopen, een portret laten maken of heb je een beeld nodig maar weet je niet precies wat? Wil je een op maat gemaakt project? Ik hoor het graag en reageer zo snel mogelijk, dat is meestal morgen al.

Bellen gaat snel; +31(0)6423 501 94

Fijne dag gewenst! Saskia

Dorpsweg Ransdorp
Amsterdam, NH, 1028
Netherlands

art for life; sculpture that makes you wonder

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head in the sand

saskia de rooy

Sometimes you’re living in a phantasy… To be cruelly woken by a call of someone who would like to buy from your webshop to find out he can’t pay… Some things just scare me. So I postpone. And postpone and postpone. Today I pulled my head out of the sand and did what had to be done. Now you can actually buy from my webshop! Hurray!

In these times, when all exhibitions have been cancelled and we are at home, I invite everyone to have a nice look around on my website. If you find something that pleases you, that you would like to own, please feel free to call or mail or app.

If you like something very much but you’re worried about the price, we will find a way to deal with that. Enjoy!

Labyrinth
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tags #art, #amsterdam, #sculpture, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder, #treasure, #buyart

Cologne 17 and 18 August

saskia de rooy

The latest heads I made are of insects! The Kölner Keramikermarkt has put out a competition with insects as a theme. It has been great to study insect heads and I will probably not stop making them. Aren't we all living on this earth together? If you are around Köln (or Cologne) or just longing to see some great ceramics and sculptures, please visit my stand nr. 42!  https://www.keramikerinnungnordrhein.de/koelner-keramikermarkt

Kölner Keramikermarkt

Kölner Keramikermarkt

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tags #treasure, #love, #art, #artmarket, #artforlife, #insects, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder, #sculpture, #competition, #raku, #handmade, #earth, #clay, #ceramics, #artstand

Stands are terrible things

saskia de rooy

Stands are terrible things. Boorish blocks, most often with as sole purpose to lift the sculpture out of the ordinary. Away from the table or the floor. A lift without beauty. Many sculptors feel this reluctance and take other options. Brancusi made his stands as the corps de ballet that would lift his solo piece; The Sculpture, into space. Exciting and refreshing to behold. Inspiring. Lovely. As I am not Brancusi, I go for another option, I like to use small tables. Made my me preferably, so I can choose the seize, and because I’ll be at Art Eindhoven soon I wanted some new ones that are easy to transport. Foldable. I was having a stagaire over for the first time, so I thought we’ll try some designing. But, hey, it went marvellous and at the end of the day we had a prototype finished! He was happy, I was happy and almost ready for Eindhoven (have to make 8 extra ones still). Art Eindhoven, nr 29, 13 and 14th of April. If you like to come, please let me know I have some tickets to give away!

Stand with a head

Stand with a head

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tags #stand, #art, #artforlife, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder, #sculpture, #statue, #Brancusi, #corpsdeballet, #solist, #treasure, #amsterdammade, #amsterdam

Irresistible offers...

saskia de rooy

Sometimes I get an offer; a gallery really likes my work and I can take part in an exhibition in Hamburg. It will last for a month, the fee is € 659 (ex 19% VAT) and the commission will be 20% of the selling price. So to get an idea of my profit I calculate when I get even. A work or some works with the total value of € 1200 will have to get sold (I don't know what VAT to consider doing this). The costs for the fee, the 20%, bringing and getting the works (700 km two times) will be covered and I'll have earned € 34 for a sandwich and a coffee on the way to and from the gallery. None of my everyday costs will be covered. My studio rent, the clay, firing the kiln. Let alone living or feeding my kids. Some days it is hard not to be very cynical.

happy hare
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tags #art, #artforlife, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder, #sculpture, #living, #beauty, #commission, #artmrket, #artmarket, #gallery, #calculation, #economy, #exhibition, #presentation, #love, #international

Easy going; Ronald Snijders

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The portrait of Ronald Snijders was taking quite some effort. Luckily for me I needed Ronald twice to model for me. To have someone is modeling is always special. We talk about loads of things but it is never small talk. In the intimacy of a work that is born into the clay, we always talk about things that make your life (and mine) worthwhile. Or hard. Or great. Because I want to catch the essence of a person it can not be about superficial things. Ronald is an amazing guy, storyteller, intelligent, living a full life. Musician. He experienced a million things and is very aware of being part of a family, a link in a long history. And surely we talked about being colored or white in this society, man or woman, opposites. In the end I figured out what to do and finished the portrait. We are both very happy with the result and having Ronald over to see his portrait was once again a lovely experience!

Ronald Snijders
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tags #portrait, #treasure, #music, #friends, #love, #life, #sculpture, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder, #clay, #raku, #rakufired, #likeness, #inspiration, #musician, #inspiring, #amsterdam, #amsterdammade, #Surinam, #flute, #fluteplayer

Belches

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Time and time again strange words come of the television. Too painful to remember literally their their scope is; art is for lunatics and at best a hobby. Of no importance. Something marginal. No need to take seriously. Then, when we have a commemoration of something important we gather around a monument… A work of art! To center very important moments we human beings apparently need, literally, a piece of art. When we marry we give our beloved a ring. Things of beauty for important moments, our life is stacked with it. A city is not a good place to be without beauty, without theatre, without a music stage. Life without art is possible but, ouch, without joy. Hurray for art! Hurray for living life fully!

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tags #art, #life, #treasure, #symbol, #sculpture, #monument, #impression, #moments, #remembering, #rings, #relevant, #love, #artforlife, #scupture, #sculpturethatmakesyouwonder