Jennie Smallenbroek

My work is the result of a multidisciplinary learning process through fashion, fine arts, and textiles. I love making dazzling art with my paintbrush, oils, watercolors, and designing colorful patterns to make common things more beautiful.

VALUES
Creating reveals a joyful spirit, by setting free the limitless forces of love that we are.
Patience, care, reflection, love for detail, expertise are present in everything I do. I praise the spirit of the artisans, their workshops, the arts & crafts, handmade, the vernacular wisdom. By reinterpreting ancient techniques and know-how and suiting them to modernity, the inherited beauty, where we all depart from, is protected.

As an artist, I love painting and illustrating, playing and experiencing with textures and shades, releasing her hand in an intuitive and boundless way. Oil painting, watercolors, and inks are the mediums I love to work with.

Until I was 45 I had never had an art education. Subsequently, I started to learn from several Dutch artists and went to the Angel Academy of Art in Florence and the Florence Academy of Art in Sweden to take some summer courses.

2025:
August - Flipje en Streekmuseum - Tiel
August - Discus Oude Haven - Tiel
August - Handmedith - Tiel
August - Café de Merckt - Tiel
August - A-Miek

2024:
Kunst in de Kapel – solo expositie – Agatha Capel, Kapel Avezaath 17-20 mei 2024.
Stadsfabriek Tiel – openingstentoonstelling. 11 februari 2024.

2016:
Museum Thijnhof – groepstentoonstelling, Nederland, 25 november 2016 – 15 januari 2017.

2015:
Gallerie Sous Terre - Artfair at the Westeinderplassen, The Netherlands. September 4/-6, 2015.
Gallerie Grang de Paul, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2014:
Edinburg Art Fair, Edinburg, United Kingdom. November 14 - 16.
Kastle Arcen, Arcen, the Netherlands. July 11th - September 1st.
Art in the Cherrygarden, Haarzuilen, The Netherlands. June 15th.
Vitis Welzijnscentrum, Wittebrug 2, Poeldijk, The Netherlands April 1st - July 1st 2014
Groupsexpositie "Girls" Ursulakapel, Tongeren, Belgium. March 22nd - April 6th 2014
Kunstdag Eindhoven. Klokgebouw 50, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. March 30th 2014
Solo exhibition on invitation by Kies Kultuur. Filmhuis de Schakel, Vleuten. The Netherlands From Februari 7th till March 30th, 2014
Kunstdag Breda, The Netherlands March 16th 2014
Kunstdag Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Januari 26th 2014
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