Barbara Wichers Hoeth: Etchings
February 22 – April 11, 2025 in Café Bern
From February 22 to April 11, 2025, neighborhood resident Barbara Wichers Hoeth (1950) exhibits beautiful etchings of animals and some ‘roller prints’ in Café Bern.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Barbara Jet Wichers Hoeth
In 1993 Barbara Jet Wichers Hoeth graduated from the Education for drawing teacher “de Witte Lely” in Amsterdam. She was then offered the opportunity to take over an etching press for 100 guilders from her grafics teacher Wim Compier and that had consequences! A selection of etchings that have since rolled from under that press, can now be seen – and are for sale – in Café Bern.
Barbara is mainly interested in birds: she has been observing them from an early age on, sketching them; a small binocular is always within reach. But other animals, from frogs to polar bears, also serve as the subject for making a line etching and aqua shade. For the book “Stadse Beestjes” by Remco Daalder, Barbara made illustrations, including an Amsterdam rat and a WC moth mosquito, which can also be seen in Café Bern.
When she has etching ink left, Barbara takes the roller and makes a so-called ‘ roller pressure ’, a work “drawn” with the roller. This exhibition shows three roller prints of horses
Immediately after the training in 1993 she started as a drawing teacher in the Boomsspijker community center on the Rechtboomssloot. She has been teaching children from the neighborhood for 32 years now. It is nice to see that several children from the early days have found their profession in art.
Galerie ARTACASA has been Barbara’s permanent gallery (www.ARTACASA) in Amsterdam since 1993.
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