Enrich your life with sculpting

Hello, my name is Rita Suyk

I have been a sculptor for the last 15 years, and for the last six years I have had a very nice studio for sculpting in the Netherlands. This January I moved, with my husband, to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and I like to pick up teaching again.

I have been teaching with great pleasure and passion, and loved to work with the different groups of people who came every week to my studio. Now I want to start sculptor classes in Kuala Lumpur and this is what I can offer you.

On a weekly bases you can work with clay. The clay work can be colored with stains and is backed in a clay-oven, or colored with paint after the backing process. For instance with a very special patina technique with thin layers of paint, which give the statue a rich bronze look. You can work with life-models or just use your own creativity.

I also organize workshops for clay for one or more days and special wax workshop for those who want there work in bronze. In the past I have been working in a bronze foundry where I learned all about techniques and the work-intensive process.

For my classes the skills of the student is not important at all. I always work with people from their own level and together we will work on improvement. The only condition I ask for is a huge quantity of enthusiasm and dedication.

Hope to see you soon,

Rita Suyk

some of my work

Ceramic monkey's, glazed

the photographer

motherly love

the wave, flat bar painted

my first metal work made with flat bar and later colored in red,

it is 'infinity', no beginning and no end

The face of a woman, white clay with oxyde

Women, one-mould cast statue, colour with paint and wax

Sitting women, one-mould cast, patina red bronze

Sitting women from other angle

Stone hippo

portrait in relief, clay

tors of a woman, clay

Backside of the tors, clay

Portrait of a young boy, Clay

stone tors

togetherness, clay, patina brown bronze

the warrior, white clay

the dans, clay, patina green bronze

women with leg, red clay with white oxide

sitting woman, clay with 3-colour oxide

life-model course

The course life-model is very helpful for everyone who wants to create some forms based on the human body. If you want to make something very natural looking or more abstract you need to know how to put a human body together. It is intense working but you learn a lot of it.

In the course a model is sitting on a platform that can be moved around, every 5 minutes the platform will change the position for the course-members and they have to move their work in the same position. So you can always work only at the part you can see.
At first you try to set up the whole figure, it doesn't have to look right but everything should be on it, except for the arms sometimes because they can really be in your working way.
After the modeling process the statues where backed in the clay-oven and given colour when and in a way the course-member wants. 
It is fun to do but not easy, when you try it yourself, you will get a great respect for all the great Artist before you!

workshop one-time casting mould

Here you can see the outer form of plaster and inside the form of a sitting woman.

This was done in a 3-day course.

We had to work very hard, but the results where fantastic. 

These are some photo's of a summer workshop, sole casting mould. The course-members made a form in clay, then we made a plaster mold over it, removed the inside clay and poured cast in it. After that you careful remove the outer mould.

Normal you have to cut the outer form in pieces away, 

here they tried to remove it in two pieces so they could

downpour an other item. 

Here Ineke released the cat from its shell.

This process is not to easy as it looks here in my simple explanation, there are a lot of things you have to think about. 

But the process is fun to do!  

working in small groups

Here Erna Kluft is  polishing here very delicate elf on a leave, a present for her little daughter. Here next project was a huge fungus with a little dwarf sitting under it for an other daughter. It is a pity I could not finish that project with here due to my leave to Malaysia.

I like to work in little groups, maximum 8 people. Then I know it will be good for both parties. The people I work with must have the feeling they receive the attention they need and I must have the feeling I can give that. 

The interest of the course member is always the most important focus for the creative process.

Sometimes in a short workshop of a day the group can be some larger and when I had a real big group (18-20 people) I invited one of my friend-sculptor to help me. 

Trix van Elk is facing a new stone, sorry that I don't have the picture of the end-result. It is a beautiful big head of a woman.

The clay-tigers above are the work of Marjon Wesseling who is an real artist in making animal-figures.

And Peter Bakker working at a big Buddha statue.

some more work of students

Stone figure by Roos de Ruijer

Rabbit by Willeke de Weerd, this was a very difficult stone to work with. It has parts that where so hard, you could hardly remove some of it, and on this stone has a lot of cracks so in the proces the cracks could easily destroy the whole work by falling apart. Till today I admire Willeke for her perseverance.

                                

free figure in a beautiful red stone by Fons Duivenvoorde

 Beautiful owl by Riet Dudink, on the photo you can't see it proper but the right eye (for the viewer) is one big hole, that gave a special effect to the peace. 

At the start this should become a mouse,  during the beginning of the process it wasn't working out right and the mouse became an obstacle for the creating process. So Anneke was very brave and cut of the ears of the mouse and work from her heart; result this wonderful flower of stone by Anneke Steenstra Toussaint-Bakkenes

some work of students

stone duck by Mary Dudink

stone head by Marian Snijders

 

Mother bear with children, clay by Marjon Wesseling

Portrait of a women, clay by Daan Steenstra Touissant

 

stone head by Dirk Dudink