Wiebe van Dingen, visual artist
So good to have you here! On my website you will find my sculptures, jewellery and workshops, and you can read what I am working on at the moment. My wish is that, both online and offline, my art may help you encounter the Great Creator.
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Reconciliation
Reconciliation has everything to do with people. So much in a person is constantly changing. Just think of the heart beating faster… raised… View
The Little Reader
This little statue is the result of an interesting process. After my own exploration, discussions and research I began with sketches. The making came later… View
Dalit
On my first trip to India I landed at the airport in Chennai, formerly Madras. As soon as you walk out of the airport hall you step into… View
The Emmaus Travellers
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” (Prov. 27:17). After a long process in nature – right there on the tree – of… View
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About Wiebe
I grew up in the north of the country, at a time when every village still had its craftsmen. After a visit to the Rijksmuseum, a creative process began that has never stopped. I work with wood, metal, glass and stone, preferably with whatever I find in nature.
A short documentary
The prayer nut
A prayer nut is a travelling companion, but also an altar, a place of stillness. You carry this stillness with you in your pocket. What you have written inside lies open and bare before God. In this way your prayer connects you with the Creator and with the people whose names are in your little nut.
You can read everything about the prayer nut, the stories and the translations in more than 50 languages at gebedsnoot.nl.
Workshops
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The creative process
Through a series of exercises you reflect on important moments in your life and turn them into a work of art. In this workshop a series of exercises helps you reflect on important moments in your life. Working through them positively gives you energy and a plan to visualise them in a work of art. Working with clay, wood, pen and paper, brush, writing texts, a dance or … A great deal of… View
Design your own jewellery
Let yourself be guided by your own motifs and preferences in shape, colour and material, and design a piece of jewellery that suits you. Let yourself be guided by your own motifs and preferences in shape, colour and material. The design process takes the lead and is aimed at developing unorthodox jewellery. So no bling, and no goldsmithing course either. An experience or emotion is worked through and expressed in material, and its wearability… View
There is no work here (yet).
A commission, exhibition or workshop?
Would you like to order something, design a piece of jewellery together, or organise a workshop or exhibition? Let me know.