House of the Red Fox

Harehatted Girl

2011-11-20T21:21:00.006+01:00

One morning, as I came tripping down the stairs

my father noticed my hair was like a hare's.

"Take of that silly hat" he spat "this minute, miss!"

I stood still, made quite uncomfortable by this.

"Dad..." I began, dragging my eyes from his irrate stare,

this is my normal hair... it just looks like a hare's."

"I dreamed them up one day, I'm unsure how,

and these ears just sprouted out my brow!

I can comb them and they do this bounce that I love

and they stop my earphones from slipping off."

This I explained as I inched 'round to make good my escape.

"Anyway, I've got to run, I'm late, I'm terribly, terribly late!"

Autumnal Riding Hood

2011-09-26T17:13:00.004+02:00

Aan het grazige gras

op het vossige mos

in sappige schaduw

in lommer en luw

On knowing knoll

on resting crest

in crisping whistling

leafy evening

Werewolf Button

2011-08-15T14:02:00.002+02:00

A horrible button,
because we carry our shadows with us just as much as our light sides.
So why not pin them to your blouse sometimes?

Birdtailed Coat

2011-07-26T21:02:00.004+02:00

Growing up I used to dream of having such a coat.
I used to imagine stories about my own fantasy world.
There was a girl there who became a ghost and could walk through time.
She would sit silently in the morning twilight, with the ravens and the jack daws.

She had a coat like that.

She could wear whatever she imagined, and could tell fortunes by reading spiderwebs.

Only she couldn't remember her own name, for she had lost most of the memories of her life.

Through the keyhole of Night.

2011-07-12T17:03:00.000+02:00

Logo for de Kosmonaut

2011-06-07T20:25:00.000+02:00

The logo is in a style reminiscent of old ex libris bookmarks and profile portraits in the 19th century. And my work ofcourse :)

Sketch for the Year of the Rabbit

2011-05-23T15:42:00.006+02:00

Patrick said this sketch is very much about me:
How I want to feel rooted and held like the Rabbit girl is by the tree.
How I love tea and comfort, nature and playful objects, like the Rabbit hat.
And how I keep a little light of hope burning on the side.

When someone sees you so well,
it's like being given the gift of yourself, by someone you love.

New drawings for buttons

2011-04-03T17:33:00.005+02:00

Girl in fox-sweater and starry sky

Roundfox

Elvira's discovery

Captain Fishhead

The lonely player on the floor

2010-09-29T10:53:00.002+02:00

Our concert booklet for may 9th

2010-04-29T20:51:00.005+02:00

Poster for our concert on may 9nth

2010-04-15T11:06:00.002+02:00

Happy 2010

2010-01-03T13:42:00.003+01:00

By hob

2009-11-05T10:13:00.005+01:00

By hob and not,
with bounding trot
by stricken stride
I bound the night.

The moon and gloom
my silent guide,
by breath and bale
and winding trail.

To light a light
would dark the night
and make alone
my shadow own

Therefore the twink
of dawning pink
will be my glow,
by hob I go.

Midnight

2009-09-12T09:22:00.006+02:00

Midnight

I loved you, secretly
like hidden moon loves sun
Beguiled I watched you, waning
waxing when you'd come

Poppies flower under moonlight
nod and whisper in twilight breeze
I lie below them looking up
at blackest sky and starlit trees

Into the void of ocean night
I cast my calling soul
Far as stars we are apart
flying as we fall

Night crickets hold their breath
mute to poppies' silent song
I lie where I once loved you
hollow as the night is long

Buttons!

2009-08-31T12:35:00.011+02:00

Above: "Autumn Queen" and "Bastian Starlight", €2,- each. Size: 32mm.

Above: "Little Red RidingFox" and " Hare Girl", €2,50 each. Size: 45mm

Above: "Dreary's Daughter" and "The year of the Ox", €3,- each. Size: 56mm

You can order them from me, or buy them at subcultures in Utrecht.

The Castlefest Drawing

2009-08-20T14:26:00.002+02:00

Drawing at Castlefest 2009

2009-08-13T11:28:00.004+02:00

Here I'm drawing at the artsquare at Castlefest Festival 2009. (Note my very fist merchandise on the first picture: buttons!)

Me and my Fred, the paper Fox.

2009-07-13T12:13:00.004+02:00

Logo for Judi Emmer's Flyer

2009-03-24T12:39:00.003+01:00

Portraits

2009-03-07T21:32:00.003+01:00

Happy new year!

2009-01-02T16:01:00.001+01:00

Stormy night poem

2008-12-29T12:01:00.010+01:00

Dearest,
though dreary rains drown you
and morning mists gown you.
Once golden leaves crowned you
you shine fine as when I first found you

Darkest,
sonore and deep browned one
it is the mid of my night.
Troubles run before me
and promises behind.

Dear,
your winds howl gray and jet
your stormy footfall beside my bed.
A lonely ecco rolls 'long the kim
you are without as I am within.

Stamped shirts for De Wolven!

2008-11-20T16:48:00.012+01:00

To celebrate their new headquarters De Wolven (communication & pr) had a fabulous party on friday the 14th.
I was there to make live art: Embellishing shirts and knickers with wolvish stamps. Grrrrreat fun!

Birthday invitation, from Patrick and me.

2008-09-20T21:24:00.000+02:00

White Fox hat

2008-09-08T13:35:00.006+02:00

This is one of the first hats I made. (Although technically it's more like a hood.) I made it for the bookcover of "Love of the Seven Dolls" by Paul Gallico, to be worn together with a fox mask. My favorite character in the book being Rey, the fox.
Unfortunately the hat shrank dramatically in the washing and is now a doll's hat, which is actually kind of fitting.

Lost Autumn Queen

2008-08-25T14:24:00.023+02:00

On my lands I have let famine fall,
I have let winter reign.
I have let ivy lie,
likewise web and rust remain.

Now I have returned,
footloose, new bridges burned.
I am come home, to her,
that once I had unlearned.

The lost Autumn queen came home again,
she flew with geese by starlight.
Acorn and chestnut called her name,
as did rain and flame and twilight.

Cinnabee, the shaman.

2008-07-01T10:11:00.006+02:00

A hat for Odin

2008-06-07T22:21:00.002+02:00

Website preview:

2008-05-28T12:40:00.003+02:00

The layout for the Kolibrie concert "Oh Madame"

2008-05-19T17:07:00.009+02:00

Cover for the Kolibrie concert program.

The inside of our program.

Fox Hats

2008-05-15T13:50:00.001+02:00

Latest project:

2008-05-12T21:34:00.003+02:00

This birdtailed jacket is my newest project. The yellow jacket part is done, as you can see in the previous post, now all that remains is the tail... I'll post it as soon as it's done, which should be in a few weeks.

And this is today, in front of the apple fields...

At the Elf Fantasy Fair 2008

2008-04-25T13:50:00.010+02:00

Me and my genius brother, Niels.

A beautiful tree in the background.

Me and Judi, my cool mother.

Sir Patrick, my beloved.

Self portrait.

Me in the dummnoni dress, posing in front of my lake.

True Spirits!

Concert poster for coming may:

2008-04-14T18:38:00.007+02:00

This is Irene and Arie, posing in their 16th century costumes. They will be dancing several dances during our coming Kolibrie concert. Two of the dances will be in their "Breugel" costumes, from the 15th century.

This year's breaddough EggMen:

2008-03-25T13:33:00.009+01:00

We bake them each easter for brunch. And eat them with strawberries and the chocolate eggs we find in the garden.
(The top-left one and bottom right one were made by my brother Niels.)

Protection Charm Kerchief

2008-03-10T14:37:00.015+01:00

This handkerchief was made for Kees Rutten, who is prone to making dangerous sea voyages.
The runes in the corners phonetically spell his name and the rune symbol under his ship is one for safe journeys.

Varen, varen over de baren,
als scheepje op woelige zee.
Stormwind fluister, water ruist er
onder Avontuur's zeilen mee.

making a baby's bedsheet at Eefke's

2008-02-02T19:14:00.000+01:00

"And rainy is my hair"...

2008-01-12T13:08:00.003+01:00

Dreary's daughter

My veins are clear as water
my eyes are clear as air
I am Dreary's daughter
and rainy is my hair

Silver patter, water falling
is the clatter of my steps
I am silver falling
to whisper from the depths

My cheeks are cold and windy
the windswept sky's my rime
If I'm your song, then sing me
my heart is keeping time

If you hear me, then come near me
I long to be unlone
an ember glows within me
and frost within my bone

Happy 2008!

2007-12-28T13:08:00.001+01:00

DummnoniDress Finished

2007-12-18T13:34:00.000+01:00

Branle the Gypsy

2007-11-05T18:36:00.001+01:00

Gale Gloaming

2007-11-05T18:33:00.000+01:00

Cicling Cypie

2007-10-16T17:13:00.001+02:00

Our program for the coming concert!

2007-10-02T21:48:00.000+02:00

poster for the baroque ensemble Kolibrie

2007-08-21T08:14:00.001+02:00

poster for our performance group "Eidolon"

2007-08-21T08:12:00.000+02:00

My new purse

2007-08-08T18:04:00.000+02:00

Sir Bastiaan of the Handsome Ears

2007-08-01T12:46:00.001+02:00

DummnoniDress

2007-07-15T13:26:00.000+02:00

Manon Poem

2007-07-06T11:09:00.002+02:00

His dark shoulder is in sable clad

His dark shoulder is in sable clad
his fingertips are sable silk
He calls into the morning glad
allseeing are all of his ilk

Sit on my shoulder sooty one
let me see with my eyes through your eyes
One call when the raven comes
one call when the raven flies

Poster for our baroque consort Ensemble Kolibrie

2007-05-18T16:08:00.001+02:00

Feather Hose and Strap-on Sok

2007-04-25T12:10:00.000+02:00

"I will put on my best white sloppe
and I will wear my yellow hose
and on my head a good gray hat
and in it I'll stick a lovely rose"

Iwan with his magical Dogcoat

2007-04-18T13:31:00.000+02:00

This is Iwan Iwanstarewitsj from the russian tale Maria Morevna.
In our adapted version he has a magical coat with a hood in the shape of a dog's head, called Graynose. Graynose speaks to him and gives him advice whenever Iwan puts up his hood.
(This picture shows Iwan as a child, by the way.)

Delphinia Jones, aberrant character

2007-04-11T12:12:00.000+02:00

Once a librarian in Boulder. Also called "Grim".
She manifested her abilities for casting illusions
after reading an inherited store of fairytale books
for four days straight. Unfortunately, she can't herself
tell the difference between her own creations and
reality. But consequently, she's seldom lonely.

Drawn cloathing

2007-04-07T13:27:00.001+02:00

These are some drawings that I'd like to make real someday.

An old letter design from my inspiration book

2007-03-16T13:41:00.000+01:00

Heina and her cool dragonscale coat

2007-03-04T13:00:00.000+01:00

Patrick in the bath on saturday morning

2007-02-10T13:55:00.000+01:00

Eefke and Tree

2007-01-12T12:58:00.000+01:00

This is a mix of two negatives. While developing the picture in Utrecht last summer I was experimenting with creating a mix out of two different black and white negatives. This was the best one.
I like the lines of the trees growing out of Eefke's hair. It's like you can see into her dreaming mind, or inside her body, where the bloodvessels run. Everytime I do a photograph I feel that the whole proces of taking pictures and developing them in a dark room is very... magical.

Performing a Haunting

2007-01-10T16:34:00.000+01:00

Doing a performance about a Haunting at the Sneack of october 2006 Utrecht,
with Bastiaan, Jantine and me.

2006-10-24T15:58:00.000+02:00

Leafdress

Baba Jaga

2006-10-24T15:22:00.000+02:00

Baba Jaga after a long day.

Count Patrickowitsj

2006-10-24T14:58:00.000+02:00

Patrickowitsj, my beloved.