At the Beeldenaar art school for kids, Saturday mornings were organized so that you changed teachers and subjects every month.
Besides Marlies, I took classes with Teun Hocks (a cool guy) for drawing, painting, and animation, and with Akke Sins for printmaking.
Akke Sins was a striking, tall woman who was always calm and focused (something new to me).
I remember that everyone in her class always tried to please her by creating beautiful things. A lovely woman, with a great gift for teaching.
She owned a house in Oostende, which was very bohemian then.
I am still very grateful for her lessons and for teaching me how to concentrate.
When my mother was sorting out her old mail a few years ago, we found at least ten hand-made new year cards (woodprints, linocuts) adressed to my parents and to all the Jasjes (there are six of us).
I just found a wonderful interview with her that includes this great photo of her with her dogs. She is 96 now.
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In 1961 Akke designed my birth announcement card, which is very typical of her style:
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