Unternehmen

FENESTRA ATELIERS B.V.B.A. is a partnership, consisting of Jan-Willem van Zijst, Angela van der Burght and Sunny van Zijst. They work on their own collection, execute commissions and carry out work for visual artists.

In 1985 Angela van der Burght took over the studio of her father, the glass artist Andre van der Burght. In 1994, Sunny van Zijst joined FENESTRA ATELIERS. Her special interest in theatrical design provides the driving force behind her work in developing dramatic design in glass. Death and reliquaries form the subject and theme of her work.

Angela provides the concepts and ideas and Jan-Willem executes the work involved. Corning originally from a background in industrial design, they have a particular interest in the process of creative design, the application of flat glass in architecture and interior design, and the 
blown-glass objects which have become such a feature of the modern habitat. In recent times (since 1993) they have specialized in funeral art: monuments, urns and reliquairies. The last newly developed also with Royal Crystal Leerdam.

Vita Jan-Willem van Zijst

Born 1945, Zeist, Netherlands
Training: Academie voor Industriele Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Academie voor Schonen Künsten, Hasselt, Belgium
Trained as a stained-glass artist in the studio of Andre van der Burght, Achel, Belgium
Activities: teaching and lecturing in colleges, glass academies, master classes/workshops all over the world

Vita Angela van der Burght

Born 1949, The Hague, Netherlands
Training: Academie voor Industriele Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Kunst Gewerbe Schule, Zürich, Switzerland
Activities: previously engaged in teaching art in various colleges in the Netherlands; works as curator/organizer of various exhibitions, catalogues and conferences in Benelux and abroad. Prepares lectures for conferences all over the world and is editor-in-chief of the glassmagazine Fjoezzz (www.glassfriends.org) and general editor of This Side Up (www.this-side-up-magazine.com).