Après des études à l’Academy of Art de San Francisco, Henriëtte H Jansen s’installe à Paris en 1986 et travaille comme artiste-peintre. Elle expose et reçoit des commandes en France et à l’étranger.
Lors d’un voyage au Maroc, elle est marquée par la céramique, la richesse des couleurs qu’elle découvre sur les murs des maisons, les sols et les créations artisanales.
Depuis, toucher la terre, créer des formes, les cuire, travailler l’émail et ses couleurs constitue le cœur de son travail.
En 1999 elle crée une collection d’art de la table colorée et organique, qu’elle commercialise jusqu’en 2020. En même temps elle dessine et fait fabriquer au Népal des tapis dessinés sur mesure pour des clients privés. À travers cette expérience de la couleur et de la matière on lui propose des projets de décoration privés avec des architectes.
Elle a réalisé plusieurs collaborations de collections de maison avec des enseignes comme La Redoute ou Cyrillus.
Aujourd’hui Henriëtte vit et travaille entre Paris et la Charente Maritime où elle se consacre à la peinture à l’huile et à la sculpture grand format et des commandes des pièces uniques, au sein d’ateliers spacieux qui lui permettent désormais de donner une nouvelle ampleur à sa démarche artistique.
After studying at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Henriëtte H Jansen moved to Paris in 1986 and works as a painter. She exhibits and receives commissions in France and abroad.
During a trip to Morocco, she is marked by ceramics, the richness of the colors she discovers on the walls of houses, floors and craft creations.
Since then, touching the clay, creating shapes, firing them, working with enamel and its colors constitutes the heart of her work.
In 1999 she created a collection of colorful and organic tableware, which she marketed until 2020. At the same time she designs and manufactures custom-made rugs in Nepal for private clients. Through this experience of color and material, she is proposed private decoration projects with architects.
She has made several collaborations for home collections with brands such as La Redoute or Cyrillus.
Today Henriëtte lives and works between Paris and the Charente Maritime where she devotes herself to oil painting and large format sculpture and commissions unique pieces, in spacious studios that now allow her to give a new scope to her artistic approach.
In February 2020, Henriette H Jansen finds herself ‘locked-down’ in her country of birth, The Netherlands, captive behind a window with view on a world ‘on hold’.
Far away from her studio in Paris, missing her clay, her glazes, her colors, her kiln and her work, she decides, with just a brush and a box of watercolors, to pick up what’s most important for her; studying the relationship between colors.
This daily occupation over a few months, helps her to create throughout hundreds of studies, a result on paper, often by accident, reminding the effect of colored glazes on her ceramics.
Facing a population plagued by fear, incomprehension, solitude and silence, Henriëtte creates her own inner world, the ‘Windows series’ where color and shape shock and harmonize with each other.
Back home in her new studio in Charente, she rediscovers her clay and creates a large sculpture whose form, so characteristic of her work as a ceramist, will be the inspiration and subject of a triptych painted in oil on wood.
The exhibition ‘Far from my Studio’ presents these different works where glazes shine through watercolors, and where oil reflects ceramics. Henriëtte leads us in a mirrored world through her history as a painter and a ceramist, guided by a profound and personal vision of shape and color.