Jochem Jongma [1973] is an autodidact painter and glass-artist.
Granted, he did many artistic courses throughout his life, from a black-and-white photography course by Guus Dubbelman at the age of 17, to stained glass painting and -fusion in 2010. He is also a trained silk-screen printer and familiar with other graphic techniques like litho, etching and Riso printing.
From 2010 Jochem started devoting more and more time to painting and live-drawing. Since then he must have spend some 1500 hours drawing and painting nude models at various studios in Amsterdam.
Exhibitions
Jongma has exhibited glass work, paintings and drawings in about ten solo and group exposities, mostly in the Amsterdam underground art scene but also in Bergen and Groningen.
Presently
2016 Group exhibition human figure (paintings) at Ateliers Westerdok, Amsterdam
2015 Invited for “salon des refuses” in Groningen
2015 Group exhibition drawings and paintings (human figure) at Ateliers Westerdok, Amsterdam
2015 Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings (human figure and portraits) in galerie De Stoker, Amsterdam
2014 Christmas window exhibition: paintings at galerie De Stoker, Amsterdam
2014 Invited to show glass-art at group exhibition in Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier (Aga lab)
2013 Portrait paintings at galerie De Stoker, Amsterdam
2013 Paintings and sketches, solo at Ons Genoegen, Amsterdam
2012 Stained glass paintings, fused glass and silkscreen printed glass, solo at Café Barco, Amsterdam
2011 Solo exhibition of stained glass paintings at galerie Foie Gras (De Nieuwe Anita), Amsterdam
2011 Stained glass paintings in glass and lead at atelier Eric Winder, kunst10daagse, Bergen
Background
A scientific education lead to brain research at AMC Amsterdam and a masters degree in medical physics in 2001. Jochem Jongma then went on to do climate research, which culminated in a PhD in 2012, after which he retired his scientific work to pursue the arts.
Since 2010 Jochem has been assisting other artists doing various screen printing techniques at AGA lab, Amsterdam. Presently he aspires to combine his artistic work with a career as a science journalist.
His next step in his artwork will be “to go back to stained glass, bringing the human figure into the light”.
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