We celebrate the 30th anniversary of my kiln and 30 years of professional studio ceramics! ‘The bowl is the most tangible art object. You take her in your hand, feel the traces of the maker and the petrified movements of the making process, the weight, her skin and color. The bowl in its free form and always open at the top, close to you!’ – Marjoke The wheelthrown bowl has character and is part of your daily rituals. I like to place the bowl on my potter’s wheel accurately and

We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of my kiln and 30 years of professional studio ceramics! ‘Making ceramics means acquiring a lot of knowledge about clay, raw materials, glaze, heat and fire. In my work I want to see the earth, serene or sturdy, perfectly imperfect, organic shapes, soft white or full of freckles and speckles … clay, raw materials and its magical fusion in the fire of my kiln … close to nature and apparently simple.’ – Marjoke A few months ago, I met young architects Anna Zań and

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of my kiln and 30 years of professional studio ceramics! ‘I can intervene at all moments of the making process, embrace imperfections or the unexpected, like life itself’ – Marjoke As a sole proprietor, I am responsible for all steps in the production and sales process together with André ‘from start to finish’. During the making process and especially while spinning behind my potter’s wheel, all kinds of clay residues are created. As long as clay has not been fired, you can easily reuse it,

When a landscape architect with a bucket of clay from Groningen shows up at the beginning of 2019, I am immediately full of attention and interested. Could I do something with it? A few weeks ago, 2 years later, he was at our door again, again with a bucket of clay.. delicious!! It is an interesting story – the Clay Ripening Pilot – in which governments, nature organisations, knowledge institutes and the business community are engaged in the useful application of sludge as a circular building material. Sludge that causes

When Sander Overeinder -the kind and enterprising owner of Restaurant As in Amsterdam- approached me for a special gift for his relations to mark the special moment of saying goodbye to his restaurant As and the arrival of www.broodvanas.nl, my heart immediately started to beat faster … … not only because as a ceramicist I feel very close to the real artisan bread bakers and the beautiful bread crusts, but also AS ..! Sander baked pizzas in his restaurant in a wood-fired pizza oven .. using pure ash from wood

Since 1994 I do enjoy making tableware and vases with different celadon glazes according to my own recipe: made on the potter’s wheel, basic and functionally designed in which the different clays form a connection with the special Celadon glazes. Celadon glazes are famous Chinese glazes and were developed in China between 960 and 1279 during the Sung period. The story goes that the name of Celadon was derived from an Egyptian prince “Salah-ed-Din”, who in 1170 would have given the Sultan of Damascus greenish glazed porcelain with the appearance