about the work

A frozen moment depicting a movement or reproduction of successive scenes that comprise movement; full speed and dynamics!  This is the thread that runs through Margreet’s work. 

Her recent work materializes the desire to express contrasts: contrasts in form and skin, between still and dynamic.

Her first pieces are white round porcelain bowls (the outside depicting calmness; only the inside depicting a state of total movement), placed on square boxes formed of stoneware.  The earthly of color of skin combined with glazed porcelain forms a calm base upon which the movement is set.

Storm, waves, birds in flight, but also dancing, people in movement, solo or as a group inspire the making of the sometimes abstract and figurative work.  The sculpture, in which the role of the dancers and the space between them is mutually important, also depict the water, in wind and wave-like forms.

Mostly the works are based on photographs or video stills and attempt to take the prominent movement lines and express these ‘’dancing images’’ figuratively or abstractly in objects, and practical work such as vases and urns.

Often the work exists of multiple pieces: the spaces between the pieces act as rests in a piece of music. 

Besides her own collections, she also takes commissioned work such as tombstones and presents for relatives.

In October 2008 the Bell-Work of art was revealed for the entrance façade of the local Julianaschool, consisting of 90 ceramic half-balls in 12 different colors: dynamic, like the children playing on a schoolyard. 

Technical information: 

The work of porcelain is burned on 1240 C, partially glazed and combined with natural stone pigment.

The 'dancing images', abstract works and vase objects are fired by electricity on plm. 1140 C; colored with oxides, engobes and pigments; and sometimes glazed. 

The pieces of work for outside have been burned on 1240 C and mostly glazed. 

Some of the works have been Raku-burned.