A wooden box by Peter Peer. You can make it in a single day. And what a wonderful day it is, working at the lathe. Peer’s infectious enthusiasm for woodturning makes the experience all the more enjoyable. A wooden box by Peter Peer, in my […]
Silenzio is a landscape, a mountain ridge, a cloudy sky through which the moon is shining. Silence and solitude can help us find a new purpose in life. Silenzio, a sculpture that brought me back to those hopeful early days of Corporate Sustainability (CSR). When […]
In Dreams is a sculpture inspired by a painting by Gustav Klimt: Wasserschlangen II. This late work by Klimt is ‘Not on View’. It has disappeared into a heavy safe as an art investment, owned by the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. In Dreams, my wooden […]
Dendroism activated on Instagram, with a special approach. A photo raises a question. What do you see here? A follow-up photo provides the answer. And immediately explains what Dendroism is. The Instagram account Dendroism has finally been activated. I had to give some thought to […]
Down in the Woods began with a melody. It became a panda bear carrying a stag’s antlers on its back. I carved the sculpture from a trunk of catalpa wood. Down in the Woods – a sculpture like an absurd nursery rhyme. For decades, songs from […]
The Right Direction shows an arm with a hand pointing downward, toward the earth. Not aggressive, not accusatory, but determined. The Right Direction, pointing downward, toward the earth. I borrowed the direction of the hand from the famous Hand of God in Michelangelo’s ceiling painting in the Sistine […]
Rise, climbing toward an ecological society, is a sculpture full of symbolism. What you see are two feet reaching the top of a ladder. What does it mean? That may be something different for everyone. Rise: Climbing Toward an Ecological Society Those who read the […]
Jan Bom is a man on a mission. That is how poet Leo Mesman introduces the art volume Dendroism, Stories of the Wood. “A delight to the eye,” Mesman writes in his review on his website. The poet Leo Mesman, photographed in 2010 beside a tree […]
Praise for Dendroism is already emerging as the first copies of this publication have been presented. Wood artist Emile van der Kruk describes it as a beautiful collection of images that, for the first time, signals an international trend. Increasingly, artists take the original shape of a […]
Whale watching is an unforgettable experience. I still remember how gracefully those giant humpback whales dived, off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada. Whale Watching is a sculpture that allows me to relive an unforgettable experience at home, every day. Whale watching. A surreal combination […]