About Bernadette van der Klooster

About

Heritage, art and human experience

My work begins with walking, observing, and being present in the landscape.

Guided by time, silence, and attention, the landscape becomes more than a setting. It reveals traces, absences, and connections between past and present.

On Aruba, Indigenous rock drawings became a point of departure. Quiet, fragile, and still present, they remain not as answers, but as invitations to look more closely.

Rather than explaining these drawings, the work responds to the space they open.

Through glass, their lines, energy, and presence are translated into contemporary forms. Not replicas, but reflections — exploring memory, perception, and the passage of time.

Glass allows something delicate to endure. It gives form to what might otherwise disappear.

The work exists within an ongoing dialogue with heritage, landscape, and the human experience.

Based in Aruba and the Netherlands.

©Bernadette van der Klooster — All rights reserved.

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