Ineke Berlyn Online
Ineke is an international prize winning textile artist, who combines her love for colour, fabric and travelling to create an ever changing collection of work and sketchbooks.
For the last 10 years Ineke has been working not only in UK where she lives, but also in her native country of the Netherlands, around Europe and she recently returned from a successful teaching trip to New Zealand.
Her first book ‘Landscape in Contemporary Quilts’ published in 2005 established Ineke as an accomplished artist with a passion for interpreting the landscape in a colourful, but often simple geometric style. In between working on exhibition pieces she enjoys trying out different materials and techniques, these experiments have resulted in the publication of her second book ‘The Quilted Object’. Recently she also published a catalogue of two years’ of monthly journal quilts called ‘Sketchbooks and Journal Quilts. A DVD ‘Inspired Lutradur’ has just been filmed and will be available from this website early 2010.
Her portfolio of work includes experimenting with Lutradur, an industrial material that lends itself perfectly for being coloured with acrylic paints, stitched, burned and manipulated in all kinds of way.
Recycling old denim jeans is also very topical subject for workshops and courses.
Then there are the monthly ‘Journal Quilts’. Sometimes there just isn’t time to make a ’proper’ piece of textile art, but being part of a monthly challenge group is a sure way of producing something fast and experimental, the result is a series of 12 mini quilts together with their sketchbook inspiration.
Two years’ worth of journal quilts with a selection of the best sketchbook pages are available as a catalogue.
As a respected tutor she generously shares her knowledge and enthusiasm during workshops and courses that take place in her hometown of Bromsgrove, her lovely holiday home in France or whilst out and about in the UK or further a field.
EXHIBITIONS:
Next year Ineke’s work will appear in a series of exhibitions across the UK and Europe.
‘TRANSPARENCIES’
From January 9th at the Cowslip in Launceton, a selling exhibition of 20 small pieces made of different fabrics in varying degrees of transparencies mounted in acrylic frames will be on show for a couple of weeks.
‘A DECADE OF QUILTS’
From 8th March till Easter Monday at Gallery de Ganzerik in Friesland, a retrospective exhibition’of a dozen or so quilts will be on show in this beautiful farmland setting.
TRENTHAM GARDENS
In April Ineke will have a demonstration stand, showing the many different ways to work with Lutradur, her new DVD ‘Inspired Lutradur’ will be on sale as well.
COULEURS EN CHARENTE
19 and 20 September ; Ineke will be exhibiting in the Mairie and Church at Viville, Charente region in France.
‘A DECADE OF QUILTS’
A retrospective exhibition of quilts will tour from October onwards with the Grosvenor exhibition company throughout the UK.