Ed van Dijk

Graduated from a technical secondary school, 1975.

Promoter of art glass in Europe. He builds small wood-burning furnaces. Has lived in France since 2011.

He has participated in national and international exhibitions including: the Kitengela Hot Glass, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998, 2000; Glas in Historisch Licht, Glasexpo, Horn, Netherlands, 2004; Glasrijk Tubbergen, Tubbergen, Netherlands, 2004; Diafaan III, Ghent, Belgium, 2007; Glasplastik und Garten, Munster, Germany, 2008; 8th Biennale Glasroute, Lier, Belgium, 2010; 10. Festival uměleckého skla (10th Festival of Art Glass), Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 2010; 4th International Glass Festival Luxembourg, Asselborn, Luxembourg, 2011; 5th Russian Triennale of Art Glass, Moscow, Russia, 2011; Tervitades, Teie… (Sincerely, Yours…), MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia, 2012.

He has received awards such as the Rabobank Public Award, Glasexpo, Horn, 2004, 2006; the Pebem Glass Art Prize, the Glasrijk Tubbergen, 2004, 2005, 2006.

He is interested in ecological and organic building.