Ans Bakker

Statement:
'As long as you are not afraid to experience, you can learn to see beauty anywhere'.

My glass is mostly inspired by nature and her landscaping.
Her beauty and vulnerability.
How we always want to push the landscape into a design that suits us. Harvest from the earth to control or not.
My glass is a reflection of playing with control and surrender and find the right balance.
The glass mostly is blown and sandcasted.

"Light of Zeeland"
The longing for a new landscape, the terrain between heaven and earth. It is the colour that occupies me and the light of movement. Just what appears before me, I am not looking for it. The nesting in the earth, the fire, water and being shamelessly reborn.
And always searching for that light and that deep desire to do it like that again.
"But it wouldn't be a way if I stood still" Ans Bakker 2017
Light of live..........
I am fascinated by ‘lives’ en nature, their origins, developments, desires, dreams and truths. I am inspired by the ‘light’ I use glass, wood, iron, copper and recycled things for my work. As a theatre designer I think in terms of images, films and parts of films. I like clear language. Therefore I often create clear images. But I also like decorating,...

Education:
2010-2015 IKA Higher Degree Glassart,Mechelen Belgium
1989-1993 Theatre Design University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands.

2019 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
2018 Dutch Design Hotel Artemis Amsterdam.
Gallery de Ploegh Amersfoort NL
Glasrijk Tubbergen NL
Bob Smit Gallery Rotterdam NL
2017 Glassmuseum Coesfeld DE
Gorcums Museum NL
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam NL
Schiepers Gallerie Hasselt BE
Galerie De Ploegh Amersfoort NL
2016 European Glass Context, Bornholm, DK
Museum Warsenhoeck Nieuwegein NL
Gallery De ploegh Amersfoort NL
Kunstliefde Utrecht NL
Galerie Polhus Nijkerk NL
Brabantdam Kerk Gent BE-
2015 ZIBA Praag, Stanislav Libensky Award CZ
Kunstliefde Utrecht NL
Glasrijk Tubbergen NL
IKA Glas Mechelen, BE -
D-Art Mechelen BE
2014: Kunstliefde Utrecht NL
Zandvoorts Museum NL
Puntenkunst NL
Kasteel Cannenburgh Vaassen NL
Glasrijk Tubbergen NL
2013: Kunstmoment Diepenheim NL
Kunstliefde Utrecht NL
ART Zaanstad - Galerie Polhus Nijkerk -
Kunstuitleen Zwolle
2012: Galerie Chris Art Noordeinde den Haag - Meesterlijk Amsterdam - ...