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Solo exhibition sculptures at STUDIO23.
May 2024, Gent, BE
KUNST RAI ART, KYAS ART SALON,
3 - 7 May 2023, Amsterdam, NL

Participant Beeldentuin Ravesteyn Heenvliet, The Netherlands. 2023
Beeldentuin Ravesteyn
Friday May 12 - Sunday June 4
12:00 - 17:00


Monotype #20 W/S
2022
Unicum
70 x 50 cm
Herma’s newest project is a life-size seed box, the ‘Origin’.
During her travels, she visits botanical gardens as much as possible and takes a souvenir of the city or country with her. This could be a fallen leaf, flower or seed box.
‘Besides the artifacts, I always bring back memories from the countries I have visited, including from my trip to Japan in 2019. In Japanese tempels, you often find a dark tunnel under the Shrine. One has to find the way there by touch and to trust that there will be the light at the end. I wanted to convey that feeling, that sensory experience, through the Origin too.
In 2018, during one of my trips to Croatia, I took a small seed box with me.
After the first small form (15x30x15cm) in several parts, I made a larger form in two parts. Gradually the idea arose to represent the grandeur of nature through a life-size sculpture you can enter.’
The sculpture is incorporated into nature. The playful cut-outs are fun for small children. Origin is a seed box from which all life springs. The dimensions of the bronze sculpture are: 2.15x3.80x2m.
‘The skeleton is built with natural materials such as jute and plaster. I have formed the shell with my hands, which allows me to give the work an emotional charge. The sculpture expresses wonder and calmness and inside one experiences a moment of reflection.’
The Origin is placed at sculpture garden Ravesteyn, Heenvliet.
- 2023 -

Process Origin 2018 - 2022


Book FORCE OF NATURE,
winner of 50 best Books and 50 Covers of 2021
AIGA NY

Solo Exhibition, Monoprints and scupltures Sep 24 - Nov 19 2022
K Y A S
A R T S A L O N
Keizersgracht 221, Amsterdam

Group exhibition Beeldentuin Ravesteyn Heenvliet, The Netherlands.
27e exhibition Beeldentuin Ravesteyn
Friday May 20 - Sunday June 12
12:00 - 17:00
Monoprints 2020 - © Herma de Wit

Exhibition PAN Amsterdam - Gallery Bruijstens Modern Art - 14-21 Nov 2021

Participation MASTERLY THE HAGUE
The Hague, The Netherlands.
21-24 October 2021
Abstract #03 - bronze - 2020

Lecture and crowdfunding - Project Cypress 2020-2022
3-4 sept 2021 at StadsSalon, Amsterdam

Monotypes - 50 x 72 cm - 2020
Exhibition - Let's meet again - 9-12 September 2021 - ARTFAUVE - Grote kerk - Naarden

Group exhibition - Nature in the house, Kunsthandel P. de Boer - Herengracht 512, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 19 - July 12 2020

Buddha belly, 2016
Bronze, 252 x 64 x 60 cm
Donated to the Daan Theeuwes Centre for Intensive Neurorehabilitation, Woerden,
The Netherlands 2019.
The Jatropha Podagrica, also known as the Buddha belly plant, gradually grows towards the light from its characteristically rounded stem.
Large bright green leaves, sometimes accompanied by an annual flower, triumphantly spring from the heart throughout its steady growth. The Buddha belly is therefore a fitting symbol for the vision that this exceptional clinic has about rehabilitation.

24 November - 1 December PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bruijstens Modern Art 2019

Exhibit Rijksstudio Award 2017
Still life with Asparagus, Adriaen Coorte, 1697