About us
I am always interested in working togehter with other people, so if you have skills to enhance these workshops please contact me.
Adriaan Luijk
I come from an agricultural background and spend most of my time farming in organic agriculture, often with people with learning disabilities.
Had a long life interest in science, mainly biology and how to bridge the human world with the natural world. This I found mainly through Goethean Science. After following a Goethean science teacher training course spend some years teaching.
Since 2003 we live in France and I discovered 'Landscape" in all its multi-dimensional aspects. To be able to organise workshops on a solid foundation, studied post-graduate courses in Goethean Science, Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics and Phenomenology at the University of Lancaster. Since 2010 I am following a 3 year Master degree in social and environmental research via the R.S. University in Oslo in which I can do research in my own field, and that will probalby be awareness-raising in Landscape.
My main interest is finding ways and methods for an all-compassing human approach, general and personal, to Landscape, the world we live in.
What most fascinates me about landscapes is that they teach us that we need to acquire intergrated disciplinary approach to understand, experience and live within them and at the same time we can discover various aspect of ourselves. And in order to communicate with each other from the various disciplines, we need to acquire a common (no jargon) language.
I also do some general garden and building work and offer holidays for people with learning disabilities and assist my partner, who is a natural dyer
Karina Hendriks
This year Karina Hendriks cannot take part in the workshops, which is real shame, but we found somebody else who also has interesting capabilities to enhance the workshop. See below
To create beautiful, functional, lively places and landscapes with the people concerned, in short, this is my passion. Through this I help people to become aware of the connection they have with the landscape. This can be in their perception, in their experience or in their actions.
Growing up with a large garden, near the forest and with my roots in agriculture, I have always felt strongly connected with the living environment of trees, plants and animals. The path I walked as an oblivious child playing outside, to the adult aware of his surroundings, coincides with my career.
After studying landscape architecture at Wageningen University, I have worked for over 10 years within the academic environment. The concept ‘Legible Landscape’ and the relationship between agriculture and landscape were a common thread. This resulted in 2003 in the dissertation "Agriculture in a Legible Landscape". With Studio for Legible Landscape I am now occupying myself on a more practical level (with head, heart and hands) fulfilling my passion.
To keep developing myself I am a member of the Dutch Association of Garden and Landscape Architecture, the Work group Landscape Phenomenology and the Wageningen Organic-Agricultural Study Group.
Johan Meeus
I studied landscape architecture at the Agriculture University of Wageningen (Holland) and had a career in research and design processes in architecture and landscape development.
The last 10 years taught students at the academy in Arnhem in introducing landscape, specially in the skill of drawing characteristic features within a short time.
I love to travel through Europe (on bike etc.) and draw characteristic features and accompanying them with thick descriptions of the happenings on the way.
This has led to a publication of the book Sketching through Europe and I keep track of my adventures accompanied with the sketchings via my blog Europaschetsen but the text is in Dutch!
But there is an English article called 'Why draw landscapes?' which has been published in Landscape Research E-newsletter and here is an extract;
“I don’t make drawings of the landscape because I like to make strokes across a paper.
Quite the reverse: through my strokes I try to understand the three-dimensional structure of the space. This forces me to make sharp observations and be very focused for a short amount of time.
My intention with a sketch is to depict the atmosphere of a landscape. In order to do this, I need to confine myself to what I consider to be the essence of the landscape”
For further Information
Adriaan Luijk
Le Fort
09300 Lieurac
France
Tel; 0033 (0)5 61 05 27 60
Email; adriaan(at)regarding-landscapes(dot)com