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Souvenirs Sans Frontières, Le Trebuche by Meike Brunkhorst
Notions of childhood innocence are picked up in Tisna Westerhof’s Once in a Blue Moon series of idyllic scenes, treasured memories painted in deep blue onto odd shaped, gold rimmed panels. The distinctive colour is repeated throughout a lot of Westerhof’s work. With...
Deplier La Conscience, Parcours des Arts by Yann Le Chevalier
"UNFOLDING CONSCIOUSNESS" A great moment of self-reflection. The work revolves inexorably around the rights of women, minorities and the weakest, or around interiority and domesticity with the production of 'women's crafts. All of this had to unfold and come to light,...
The Open Door, l’Art Vues by Bernard Teullo-Nouailles
"The materials used, mainly fabrics and paper, give the place created by Piet Moget, and now managed by his daughter Layla, a lightness which contrasts with the seriousness of the subjects discussed. The two artists have indeed appropriated it as they would have had a...
Come Dine In Blue, East London Lines by Miri de Villers
Come Dine in Blue received funding from the Arts Council, the Heritage Fund and Lewisham Council and was a part of the We Are Lewisham, London Borough of Culture programming, which has been going on for the past year. While some of the work highlighted the plight and...
Come Dine In Blue – My London News by Ayokunte Oluwalana
A Dutch woman who has made a life for herself in the capital is aiming to showcase the best of the borough she calls home. Tisna Westerhof, 47, came to London to study for her Master's degree a number of years ago - after completing this, she met her husband and had...
Come Dine In Blue, Between Art, Craft & Community Engagement, by Massimiliano Mollona
Blue and white became a central trope of Westerhof's art precisely because of its association with Dutch's culture and history and in relation to her experience of migrating to London and setting up a multi-cultural family (Westerhof's husband is second generation...
Interview – Tisna Westerhof at Resonance FM with Jude Cowan Montague
"The News Agents- Resonance FM - An interview with Artist Tisna Westerhof Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Delft, delicacy and motherhood. Artist Tisna Westerhof discusses childhood and cultural encounter in contemporary urban London...
Digest by Beatrix Joyce
Dutch-born, London-based artist Tisna Westerhof offers a new interpretation of Delftware in her series of tiles. The idyllic, romanticised Dutch countryside is replaced by cityscapes of London and raw outlines of industrial powerhouses, such as Battersea Power...
Review: Digest by Joanne Pohl
London-based Dutch artist Tisna Westerhof is exhibiting works at the Dutch Centre, at Austin Friars in the City of London, as part of her exhibition entitled “Digest”. This cleverly-titled exhibition – playing on the word’s double meaning, relating to food and...