New developments!

After having a busy couple of weeks and a small trip to get away from everything for a few days I'm back at work again! 

I'm filling my days lately with a very interesting project. I am doing interesting experiments with lovely organic silks and home made formula's to create interesting effects on fabric. I can't tell everything yet but I can tell that it is promising to become a very interesting en beautiful project! This all I am doing for the event "Fashion Clash" in Maastricht. This event will take place in the beginning of June this year, For the exact dates check out their website. The organization for this project did a nice interview with me which you can read through this link (very Happy with it!) 

 

Next to this I have become a columnist for the website Duurzamelifestyle.nl, A very nice dutch website what writes about everything that has to do with incorporating sustainability in daily life. You can read my first column about my work as a designer (written in dutch) through this link, so enjoy!   

And of course in the last blogpost I was giving away a limited edition art catalog from a communal project I did. The person who got this is Dorie! So Dorie if you want to send me an email containing your postal address then I can send you your gift as soon as possible! 

Below some pictures from my dyeing adventures for the upcoming fashion project!

never-ending-art publication 2011

A while ago I had the start of an exhibition called Never ending art (see the my blogpost about that here). At this exhibition I presented the work "Bosfeestje". A few days ago this Exhibition came to an end and this was celebrated with a lovely day in the forest where the whole project started and with the presentation of a beautiful publication of this project. All the artists who participated worked together to make a communal art piece in the forest to announce the start of a folly which will be build later on. I took some photo's during this day, so enjoy!

And to celebrate this closing of the exhibition with all you readers I want to give one publication box away! (a description of this box is found below) If you want one of these publications let me know why you want this box plus your postal address and send this in an email to  wieteke"at"wietekeopmeer.nl . I will announce who the lucky winner is in the next blogpost! The publication will be send to you! (if you live abroad please understand that I will charge just the shipping costs because otherwise it will be a very expensive gift) Please note that this publication is in dutch!

We started this day with the presentation of the publication of this art project and giving the first issue of this publication to the director of the foundation of city and nature, Hans Warrink (picture above)

Also nice was that the landscape architect who designed this area was also present. He could tell us a lot of interesting features of this lovely forest near Almere in Flevoland.

The publication consisted of a box with a small booklet containing a description of all the interesting art projects produced for this exhibition.

And next to the booklet the box is filled with A6 format cards with pictures of the artworks. Each artist has their work presented on three of those beautiful cards.

After the presentation the artists all went for a long walk through the forest to determine the perfect spot for our communal artwork, during this walk we found the forest just preparing for spring, which was very nice to see.

After this walk we determined the best spot for a communal spontaneous art work made with recycled materials.

sharing news and capturing sun

I have some great news to share with you all!

I applied for the fashion event in Maastricht some time ago called "fashionclash" because the creator of this interesting event encouraged me to apply and well, that I did. I applied for the exhibition part with my graduation project "zaaisieraden" from the collection "seeds of wonder" and with an exciting new project I wanted to make now for a while. I thought this was the perfect chance to let this get it's premiere, and guess what! Both projects got selected! I am over the moon and a bit nervous, the fashionclash event will be in June. So I've ordered fabrics and I am going to start very quickly with the first experiments for this new and experimental project. I will keep you up to date and uncover later on what this mysterious project is about!

next to that ,

A stylist for a dutch magazine, found me on the internet and contacted me, she wanted to use my work in a fashion photoshoot where every item was eco! I loved the concept she explained to me and that resulted in that I send her as soon as I could some scarfs of my collection "leaves Impression". The nicest thing is that the photoshoot was in Miami! I am very very proud, my darlings travelled around the world and came back to me after their adventures still as beautiful as before. The magazine will appear in July and of course I will keep you up to date when it will appear exactly!

I was a bit jealous off my lucky scarfs that got to travel all the way to sunny Miami. Luckely I could capture some sun because I got the chance to dye a big eco wool blanket with eucalyptus for a client, it turned out beautiful! Enjoy some photo's of the process of dyeing and I've also added some photo's of the end result! And before I forget Let me thank my sweet mother who helped me with this big heavy project! Without her I couldn't have made this beauty!

And here the result after a long day of work and a lot of patience! The result is a large eco woolen blanket with a scattered leaf print of eucalyptus. It's on it's way to the lucky buyer!

Mode Museum Hasselt meets Wieteke Opmeer!

As you may have read in the earlier post I was asked to show my jewellery collection "zaaisieraad" at the Fashion Museum of Hasselt, Belgium. (Mode Museum Hasselt). I went back to Belgium to be present at the press conference and also at the opening itself. The museum had arranged a hotel for me so I wouldn't have to rush back in the middle of the night so that was very nice! On Friday morning the 28th of January the press conference started and after explaining my work to the journalist there luckely was some time off to have a nice dinner and buy a nice souvenir. After that small break it was time for the big opening that same evening! Lot's of conversations and lot's of given business cards later I went to sleep proud and tired thinking, I've gotten the taste of this :) On to the next! 

 On my way to the press conference.

 Explaining my work to the journalists.

My work in the beautiful designed surroundings by Lien Wouters.

The party in the central hall of the museum.

Very proud to see my name between the international artists and to see my photo in the catalogue of the exhibition. 

If you want to visit the exhibition or find more about the Museum and the exhibition on their website !

fashion museum dreams

I am asked to show my jewellery collection "zaaisieraad" at the Fashion Museum Hasselt, Belgium (Mode Museum Hasselt). The exhibition is called "alter nature: The future that never was" This is a very interesting exhibition which show an overview from the sixties until now with all kinds of futuristic fashion designs. I must say that I am proud to be part of this exhibition! Last week I personally visited the museum to bring the necklaces and prepare them for the exhibition. Just to make sure everything went right.

Now only a few days away from the big opening at friday evening the 28th of januari I'm already packing my bags. I'm traveling to Belgium tomorrow afternoon to prepare for the press conference that will happen on friday morning (exciting!). If you became curious you can visit the site of the Museum to read more about the exhibition. Below some pictures of preparing the necklaces for the exhibition.
Later more about the opening of the exhibition!

you all know what time it is!

Wishing everyone a beautiful christmas and a lovely new year!
In the new year I want to start fresh and I am planning to clear out some of my workspace storage. Meaning I want to make other people happy with all kinds of interesting fabrics and other materials. I'm gonna organize this all in the new year, so keep an eye on this blog!

love you all!

Bosfeestje!

Last weekend, I had a very fun project! I called it "Bosfeestje", which translates into "Forestparty". This is a project I made for a forest next to the city of Almere in the province of Flevoland. This province is a quite recent addition to the Netherlands. And to celebrate this fact, I designed biodegradable little partyhats made from paper with poppyseeds imbedded in them. The hats are finished with strings of wool from a sheep in my neighboorhoud spun personally by my mother and for the visitors who can't tolerate wool I specially made some hats with organic silk ribbons. The purpose was to walk the art route through the forest and place the little hats on a place as a gift to the forest with the goal to help the forest grow. The day was wonderful and the hats made it lot's of fun!

Afgelopen weekend heb ik een erg leuk project in een bos in Almere gehad! Het project heb ik Bosfeestje genoemd. Het Bosfeestje heb ik als initiatief gemaakt om te vieren dat het bos nog heel jong is, dat verdient een feestje! Het project bestond uit kleine biodegradable feesthoedjes gemaakt van papier waar klaprooszaadjes in verwerkt zijn, met als afwerking touwtjes gemaakt van wol van een schaap uit mijn buurt wat tot draad is gesponnen door mijn moeder, en voor de mensen die niet goed tegen wol konden had ik een aantal hoedjes gemaakt met ecologische zijde lintjes. De bedoeling was dat de hoedjes gedragen konden worden aan het begin van de kunstwandeling door het bos, en op een gegeven moment  kon het hoedje in het bos worden achtergelaten als kadootje aan het bos, zodat de bezoekers het bos helpen mooier te maken. Ik heb een geweldige dag gehad en er is heel wat afgelachen met de grappige hoedjes!