Exhibition 'Sculptures from Freeke Klerekoper' in Rijssens Museum
For years, visual arts and working with my hands have been my passion.
Around 1975, I started working with my hands as an autodidact, ceramics was the material with which I searched for ways to shape my creativity. Lessons at the Art Academy in Utrecht, among others, provided useful support.
After various wanderings, I ended up in Warns, a small village in South West Friesland, in 2001. Together with my husband, I thoroughly renovated a spacious farmhouse from 1920. Our creativity came in handy there.
In the meantime, I had discovered the Beeldhouw Centrum Koudum, where a broad and inspiring two-year course was offered under the guidance of Herma Bovenkerk. There I also discovered that techniques and skills with tools could help me with my experiments. In 2010, I completed this professional course with a good result and I was able to continue with what had been hidden in my soul for quite some time.
A studio and an exhibition space had now been created in our farmhouse. In this gallery we organized summer exhibitions with several artists, each with their own disciplines.
In September 2019 we moved to Kampen and I like to show my work at suitable locations where I am invited.
Freeke is inspired by emotion and the human body, something she beautifully brings back in her cuddly sculptures of bronze and stone.
The sculptures of Freeke Klerekoper can be seen in Museum Gallery de Oosterhof from March 25 to May 10, 2025 and are also for sale.
