MARIA VAN KESTEREN
Maria van Kesteren (b. 1933) makes spare and beautifully proportioned bowl and box forms. Surfaces are evenly stained or painted, so that the detail of the grain becomes secondary to their formal properties and fine definitions of interior and exterior space. She trained with the woodturner Henk van Trierum in Utrecht in the late fifties and is based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Although most celebrated for her works in wood, she has also designed glass for Royal Leerdam and ceramics for factories including Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum. A major retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1995.

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