Joanne C. Schröder

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WHAT GIVES SHAPE AND COLOR TO MY LIFE
 

• My international education in Holland, England and Switzerland

• Education as an architect in Switzerland

• Career as an urban designer and teacher

• My daughter and grandchildren

• Life with it’s obstacles and victories

• Self reflection

• Search for inner balance and peace

• Life acceptance and joy of being
  
   

WHAT IS INSPIRING
 

• Love, friendship, fellowship

• Honesty and courage

• Nature

• Light, space, colour and music

• Dancing the Argentine tango

• Meeting people of various nationalities

• Traveling and discovering foreign cultures

• Being a world citizen

• Creativity
  
   

WHO ARE IMPORTANT AND INSPIRING
 

• Elly Nanninga (†), dear friend and psychologist.
  She motivated me to continue painting.

• Jetty van der Werf, energy therapist.

• Peter Schenk (†) en Ursula de Boer, past teachers at
  ‘van Gogh Atelier Amsterdam’.

• Serob Darbinian, teaching classical techniques and
  specialized in portrait painting.

• Studying painting at ‘van Gogh Atelier Amsterdam
  ’and at ‘Vrije Academie Nunspeet’.

• Studying Ceramics with Susan Öhler/ Amsterdam,
  and at ‘Vrije Academie Nunspeet'.

• (Inter)-National workshops, mainly in landscape painting,
  in Amsterdam/NL, Zwolle/NL, the Isle of Terschelling/NL, France, Belgium, Ireland and Greece.

• Exhibitions in Holland: Meppel, Zwolle, Hattem, and Groningen.

• And especially... you!