The Dutch artist Wapke Feenstra (1959, Hennaarderadeel), brought-up on a farm in Friesland, explores the direct physical and mental environment by tapping into local knowledge. She creates "landscapes", a genre that can channel indefinable feelings and narrate our relationship to our environment.
This site is divided into four sections: ‘collections’,
which lists groups of work that admire the history of painting, ‘....scapes’,
shows forms of collaborative mapping, ‘projects/exhibitions’
includes descriptions of a wide range of in and outdoor activities. ‘texts’ are written works or writings by others.
Wapke Feenstra (NL) is with Kathrin Böhm (UK/DE) and Antje Schiffers (DE) a founder of myvillages.org (www.myvillages.org)