From 26 March to 2 October 2016 Studio Claudy Jongstra has a solo exhibition in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden. The exhibition Claudy Jongstra: Ancient Light will show some of the best works of recent years, but will also exhibit the new direction Jongstra is taking in her work. Futhermore there will be extensive attention to the creative process of Jongstra's practice. For more information, see the website of Fries Museum.   

A very special and honourable project for Studio Claudy Jongstra was the creation of a tapestry for the mortuary next to a Chapel of the Sisters of Dominicans in Nijmegen The Netherlands. This art piece adds beauty and consolation to this very special room and offers a healing force for the grief of the mourners.

With this tapestry in the mortuary Claudy visualizes the first steps of the transition from human life to spiritual life. 

The bottom part of this handmade ‘gobelin’ shows the earth, the movement in the composition above let people experience the transition from the bottom part to the top of the tapestry. With other words: from the soil of the earth to the translucent fragile light of the sky.

This tapestry can be seen as ‘a still’ of a landscape, in which the eyes can travel around.

This art project has been created i.c.w. Oomen architects NL.

The Natlab is well known as the former Research & Development Laboratory of Philips Company in Eindhoven.

The theme ‘research’ formed the basis for the series of 3 wall coverings in this multipurpose meeting room.

For this commission Jongstra started her own research on the color Veronese Green, as a connection to the period in the 18th century, the Enlightment, in which experiments played an important role.

This art installation, with these painterly tapestries, is created to stimulate ‘out of the box’ thinking into new visions and ideas for this century.

This is a large-scale textile wallcovering for the new Fries Museum. The instructions for this wallcovering in the entry hall of the new museum, to open in 2013, were to create a visualization of the Frisian landscape.

These images show an artistic view of the Dutch-Frisian landscape with sunlight, blue sky and earth. In the spectrum of the earth, you can see the low horizon and the rich details in the embroidery. Colours used are: onion,weld,cochenille and indigo.

Our tapestries and wallcoverings express the beauty of natural materials and are unique in their closeness to nature and the exploration of new options. Each art piece is especially designed for the building itself. Studio Claudy Jongstra always presents samples, sketch proposals and/or mock-ups during the design process.