AUTHOR’S TRAVEL – The latest addition to Netherlands creative trips

You will need a car and nine hours to create an unforgettable 700 km journey (about 430 miles). In the country partially recovered by the sea, with about half of its land below the North Sea level, eight people (five men and three Dutch women) have left their indelible creative footprint, giving you the opportunity to get to know the …

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WHEN MUSIC BECOMES ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE – Sharon Den Adel

Among her favorite artists, there are the Nirvana, Björk and the Enigma. This little girl was born in 1974 at Waddinxveen https://rail.cc/en/waddinxveen/c (a municipality in South Holland). As a child, she had never taken singing lessons, but had basic lessons on breathing technique. Sharon Den Adel is now a songwriter, co-founder of a music group. Before becoming a singer, she …

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THE LAWS – Novel, by Connie Palmen

Her full name is Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria Palmen, but this Dutch writer is known as Connie Palmen. She was born at St. Odiliënberg (a small village in central Limburg, east of the Maas River) in 1995. http://www.netherlands-tourism.com/limburg/ After studying Dutch literature and philosophy, in 1991 she published her first novel, gaining extraordinary success. As if walking like an acrobat …

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NO EXISTENTIAL FAITH – The silent horizon of Anneke Brassinga

Already in 1974 she published (with a pseudonym) prose and poetry in a literary magazine, but her first collection of poems was born in 1987. Anneke Brassinga, a poet, writer and essayist was born in Schaarsbergen in 1948. The postmodernist core of Anneke Brassinga‘s work is spirited and melancholy, full of surrealist nuances.  In 2008 she received the Constantijn Huygens …

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ROBIN WAGENVOORT (1986), DUTCH SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHER – Digital Face Art Artist

LOVING CAMERA AND COUNTRYSIDE ROBIN WAGENVOORT 1/3 – He was born in 1986 in Hengelo, https://www.hengelo.nl/Welkom-in-Hengelo/Actueel/Talen/Welcome-to-Hengelo.html town in the eastern part of the Netherlands. He comes from a musical family, but despite his great musical talent, he differs from his family. He loves the camera and the countryside, where he frequently stays and then often comes home with beautiful pictures. …

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KAREL APPEL (1921/2006), DUTCH ABSTRACT PAINTER – The hedonistic pleasure of the creative gesture

SPONTANEOUS ESPRESSIONISM, WHICH CREATES IRONIC AND GROTTESCHE FIGURES KAREL APPEL 1/3 – This Dutch painter and sculptor was born in Amsterdam in 1921. Growing up, he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, but had to wait till 1946 to complete his first exhibition (though very young, he already had a personal style), with clear pictorial influences from …

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THE MEETING BENCHES AUTHOR’S TRAVEL – Take an artistic journey with creative Englishman

Carnoustie is a really special North Sea town (Central-Eastern Scotland), https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/carnoustie-p241441 located along the estuary of Barry Burn. We took a break at the Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel with nice clean room, good pool Jacuzzi, great breakfast and friendly staff.                        This resort is famous for its golf courses, but also because here lives and works painter ALAN MACDONALD, whose …

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THE SHORT MUSICAL HISTORY OF THE DANCING ELF

The name of the musician born in London on September 30, 1947 was Mark Feld, but this singer, guitarist and composer (frontman of the band Tyrannosaurus Rex), who died in a road accident before his thirtieth birthday is known as Marc Bolan. The son of a truck driver, who grew up in East London had a big passion for rock …

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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE – Novel, by Virginia Woolf

A book which follows the tradition of the Modernist novel, the one, where the plot has secondary importance to the psychological introspection of the characters. To the lighthouse is a novel published for the first time in 1927. In 1998, the Modern Library named the novel No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th …

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