Colourful connections

Jolanda de Boer:
Gradually, through her processes of painting and collage making, Jolanda began working more with textiles. Working with fabrics was instilled in her from an early age by her mother, who was a dressmaker. Her long stay in Zambia provided the inspiration for her subsequent works. The colors, atmosphere, and events in her work can be derived from this. Forms and connections are interwoven in her works, which are abstract/figurative. Sometimes vulnerable and fragile, yet radiating a certain strength.

In her weaving, Jolanda uses various materials such as canvas, photographs, yarn, naturally dyed fabrics, and textiles. She also uses many reusable materials. Sometimes alienation and reality alternate. She plays with threads and fabrics, removing parts to add new elements. Intuitively responding to what develops during the process, she continues to “embroider” as the work progresses.

The loom she uses is height-adjustable. It consists of a self-made frame with many nails. In addition, she creates sculptures from cardboard, sometimes in combination with weaving and textiles. The sculptures often have an architectural appearance. She regularly documents the processes of her work in a process book as a reference work.

Willem Mourik:
With an eye on special details.

A series of photos interspersed among Jolanda de Boer's woven works. Remarkable but perhaps unknown details of the Leiden Weaver's House. Do you recognize the details in the photos? Or did you only look and not see them while viewing Jolanda's woven works? Seeing is more than looking.

Take a good look at the detail photos and try to find the locations in the Weaver's House where these photos were taken during a new tour. Have fun with the search.

Colorful connections between the weaving and the photography. Willem Mourik is an enthusiastic amateur photographer who captures beautiful images from nature through his activity as a nature guide. In addition, over the past few years, he has carried out several projects in the field of reportage photography from various perspectives, including a reportage on De Hoge Veluwe National Park using a 100-year-old vintage plate camera, coupled with the reactivation of a darkroom (darka for those in the know). An exhibition about the Chernobyl area, 33 years after the nuclear power plant explosion, showing how an area/nature changed after the population was no longer present, and a reportage on historic vanished shops/buildings in the Klarendal district of Arnhem.

During discussions between Jolanda and the Leids Wevershuis regarding the exhibition, he became enthusiastic about the details in the weaver's house, and the idea arose to exhibit these in photographic form together with Jolanda's woven works.