October 2025: New work submitted for the LOEWE Craft Price 2026
Show at Galleria La Sinopia, Rome
In dialogue with Nobushige Akyama
On view till Jan 1 2026
Participant at GLUE Studio Henk
Rozengracht 204, Amsterdam
18-21 september 2025
Amsterdam
Interview with galerie PHILIA magazine now online. See:
Series of 6 Original presses at HABACHY DESIGNS,
Atlanta art fair, USA
26-28 september 2025
Series of 6 original presses - unique work - 2021 - 2024
Participant of SENSES Lecce, IT
June 20 - 30th 2025
MUST MUSEUM
Participant of ITSLIQUID Rome
March 14 - 27 2025
At Medina Art Gallery Rome
I am delighted that my book 'Essence of Nature' was chosen as one of the winners of AIGA, NY Design's 50 book | 50 covers competition of 2023.
The publication
is included in the Butler Library, Columbia University, NY, USA.
'Essence of Nature', 2023 has been included in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Library, 2025.
In harmony with nature:
My work is an ode to nature. In the quiet works on paper - prints of collected flowers and branches - I look to subtly portray the depth of a spiritual meaning in nature. Every leaf, every branch I find, carries a story for me, a silent thought that I bring to life through my hands and eyes.
The elements of earth, such as clay and soil, form the base of my sculptures. They are a direct homage to the primal source of the biosphere. It is earth that nourishes us and connect us.This theme runs as an invisible thread throughout my work.
In everything I create, I search for the connection between the large and the small, between the tangible and the invisible. A constant search for the soul of nature.
Series 'Inked plants' - unique work, 2025
DAWN
Inspired by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto who used light as a pigment to create a new kind of painting, Herma uses the iris-print technique
to create an image of dawn. She carefully selects inks and by the act
of making an iris-print draws unexpected alluring gradations. The transformation of these gradations are suggesting timeframes of dawn and inspire the viewer to stand still for a moment. The outcomes on
print are works shrouded in mystery.
Irisprint #66 OW, ink on 30 gr paper, 96 x 140 cm, unique work. 2023
Fossil #01
A fossil, to Herma, means a legacy of lost nature. Within her work she focusses on the research of soft fossils – remains that become visible after uncovering it, layer for layer. This unfolding method inspired her to make a ‘new fossil’. The work Fossil #01 shows the vulnerability and fragility of nature casted in a hard material. Within this solid object she wants to capture the changing nature she has been observing during her life and career as an artist.
Fossil #01, bronze, 80x80cm
unique work. 2024
Fossil #02, bronze, 57x37cm
unique work. 2024
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Earth’s crest, serie of four, bronze. 2023-2024
Earth’s crest detail, bronze. 2023
Upcoming
Earth’s crest, work in progress, 2024