NEXT WEEK'S GUEST SPEAKER - ARDY TIMMER

Born and raised as the oldest of five in a village in the South of the Netherlands, Ardy Timmers was trained as a secretary at Philips Electronics where she met her husband Eric. Eric worked in the flying brigade of the Engineers squad and was traveling a lot. Both of them have the same wanderlust and curiosity for the unknown, so it was obvious that one day they would move abroad. Ardy is the proud mother of two sons, aged 20 and 16. She moved to Medan, Indonesia in 1997. Then after Suharto's demise in May 1998 she was asked to move to Jakarta where she lived for four years. After Jakarta, she moved to Kuala Lumpur where she has lived now for almost 11 years.

 

During her time in Indonesia, she was the facilitator of an Art Appreciation group. The group traveled the country from Bandung to Bali, Yogjakarta and so on to visit galleries and artist’ studios. On the island of Java, the cradle of many art forms, her love for art was sparked!

 

When she came to Kuala Lumpur in 2002, she decided to start art classes and try her hand at painting.  She joined the Kuala Lumpur Speakers club in 2005. In 2010 she initiated an art appreciation group in Kuala Lumpur. The group called RASA, now over 20 members, goes to visit artists and studios once monthly and is a mixture of locals and expats, both male and female.

 

The focus on being an artist, art appreciation with like-minded souls, bonding with local artists, all really worked in synergy to the person and the artist whom she has now become. Her extrovert character and love for people made it easy to connect people.

 

In October of 2012 she staged her first exhibition at Living Food Bistro in KL, and sold half of her works. That was followed with an exhibition in January of 2013, with four other female artists, called Elements 5.

Ardy is grateful to have reached this point in her life and being able to liaise with all kinds of wonderful people through her love for art.  For her, her life has totally changed since she discovered her love for art. Art reconnects her to her soul essence. For Ardy art is life.

AND SHE WILL BE SHARING THIS WITH US AT OUR NEXT MEETING ON MONDAY, 14TH OCTOBER 2013, AT 7.30PM. DON'T MISS IT.