Peter Hiemstra is, and these are his own words, a visual artist who creates “picture stories”.
Sculptures that escape the ordinary, everyday life, visual storytelling often somewhere between bizarre and witty, honest and vulnerable.
A few weeks ago Peter came to our atelier and asked Jan and me to think about a silver rim for a small charm he made. It is a beautiful nice clay pendant with an image of a bear on it.
Jan and I chose a “fairytale” approach and encased the pendant in a silver edge of “battlements” surrounded by a thread of silver “pearls”.
We really liked working together with Peter. I wrote about Peter and his work before, if you are interested click here, here, here and here.
For more of Peter’s work please go to his site.
13threads // Dec 5, 2012 at 20:56
You have managed to capture the magic of a fairy tale and the quirkiness of Peter’s work with this. It is both cute and somewhat surreal! I like it a lot.
Marion Pannekoek // Dec 6, 2012 at 08:51
Thank you Lois!
The little pendant is a present for a lady who has a large collection of bears …
marchi // Dec 6, 2012 at 17:19
I love the piece. It is so whimsical. the frame is just right. so good!
Marion Pannekoek // Dec 7, 2012 at 08:51
Thanks for your kind words Marchi!