Popjes Art

Are you tweeting yet? I’m slowly getting into it… Not only am I now very up to date with the awful things that are going on in our world, I also discover cool artists.

One of them is Karen Saaman. She’s a graphic and web designer, and also a photographer, inspired by little dolls (‘popjes’ in Dutch) from the fifties and sixties. She surfs the web to find the vintage cardboard or rubber dolls, which she places in a decor of plastic flowers and grass, model houses and trees, cut paper backgrounds, or whatever useful item she may find. She then uses the photos to make post cards, buttons, prints on canvas, and more.

For those of us, on the other side of the pond, she now also sells her products through DaWanda, which means I can order her canvas prints online and have them delivered in the US, instead of using my mother as a donkey each time she comes to visit.

(Although we do still need spekjes, drop, cheese, krentenbollen and Roosvicee, mom!!)