Robijn Sonneveld

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About Robijn

Robijn Sonneveld. Born in Schiedam, the Netherlands on 28 October 1962. Mother of a daughter and a son. Residing in the Bijlmer, Amsterdam.

I started working as a texitleartist in 2018. The love for textiles started with my mother, she took me into the magical world of fabricstores with walls full of amazing structures and colors.

It brought me into fashion.

After a 3 years study at the Couture Institute in Rotterdam i studied fashion at the renowned Artez, school of art in Arnhem from 1983-1987.

Straight from school my first job as a fashiondesigner was at Oilily in Alkmaar followed by a variety of brands during 25 years.

This long period of fast fashion made me longing to return to the essence in search for what the real beauty is in life.

In 2018 I started making walltapestries because the tactility of materials provide me total freedom to express the sensitvity of my spiritual awareness.

About Robijn’s work

The soft power

Our human being is a natural being.
We are nature.
We forget this so often and live in conflict with nature.
This creates imbalance and all the associated problems.
We lose the essence of who we are and keep rushing past ourselves.

Clearing and overcoming resistances in the human psyche transforms the unruly, frozen into liquid free-flowing.
When those renewing free forces overcome and fill a person, the soul can awaken.
What had become stuck and rigid as a result of old ingrown habit patterns and illusions can dissolve spontaneously and flow unimpeded.
Then you become one with it. You feel your heart opening, you are free!

This allows us to live mindfully and we can observe deeply and learn wordlessly.
When it really dawns on us that the nature around us and our human nature are inseparable, we live organically. We are not separate but one in ourselves and with our environment.

Working with wool has helped me to wander in this organic landscape, to take unknown paths, to stumble, to turn into dead ends only to be surprised with unexpected views on the way back.

From beginning till end, everything is done by hand. Felting, dyeing, assembling. My work is a continuous development as a natural organic growth process. I follow my heart, my hands, my eyes. Open to the possibilities that present themselves.