"Two manhole covers in Den Haag (The Hague, Netherlands).
The municipal bird of The Hague is the Ooievaar = Stork, as you can see on these manhole covers, too."
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Heleen de Vaan
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Viva El Barto
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Dragon mail art
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Anna Banana (1940-2024)
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POSTCARD 2026
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DALL.E 2 (Formerly Craiy…
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Heleen de Vaan's Discussions
missing Elefantus!
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Today, 9th of January, he should have turned 66. Alas he passed away three years and two…Continue
Tags: ARTennius, Ennio, elephants, Elefantus
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ruud Janssen Jan 16, 2014.
Help asked: Mail art to keep the Museum Jan Cunen alive!?!
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Dear all!I wanted to ask you for a favour, or better said, ask all of you for Help!Recently I got the sad news that the Museum Jan Cunen in the Dutch city of Oss is threatened with shutting…Continue
Tags: art, mail, activist, action, museum
Started this discussion. Last reply by Heleen de Vaan Aug 19, 2013.
Heleen de Vaan's Events
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"E" est mort, vive "E"!
July 3, 2066 at 6pm to February 17, 2067 at 7pm – GUIVRY (France)
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Latest Activity
"Manhole cover in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
Brand = fire
Put = hole"
"Nature's orange (and circle :-)"
"ORANGE for tomorrow :-)"
Orange lovers
When I was preparing this mail to send to two Orange lovers, I found out that there still is no IUOMA-group for Orange lovers.So here it is! If Orange is your favourite colour, and if you want to share Orange mail with the world: join!(by the way, my favourite colour is Turquoise...)BewarenSee More
"From Deep Dream Generator online"
Orange lovers
When I was preparing this mail to send to two Orange lovers, I found out that there still is no IUOMA-group for Orange lovers.So here it is! If Orange is your favourite colour, and if you want to share Orange mail with the world: join!(by the way, my favourite colour is Turquoise...)BewarenSee More
"Amazing!"
"Here's another big rubber stamp lover :-)
I have collected quite a lot, and I love to carve stamps out of erasers.
Alas at the moment I have lack of time (and a big backlog of to-reply-mail-art), but whenever anybody says the word…"
"Manhole cover in Zaandam (the Netherlands), showing the coat of arms of Zaandam:
(‘Vuil water’ means ‘dirty water’)"
"‘Doetinchem’ (city in east Netherlands) written on manhole cover in Vinkeveen (city close to Amsterdam)"
Profile Information
- Mail-Artist since:
- 2009 (and not aware being mailarting since 1979)
- My Website (without http://):
- http://heleendevaan.blogspot.com
- Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
- Making illustrations is my life. Love rubberstamps, coloured pencils, watercolour, black fineliners.
And how great to see other people's creative outbursts, creative additions to envelopes. Including those by the postal services (even a pen cancellation can have it's charms). I love the small pictures stamps show. And like to communicate via art works. And isn't it fascinating how snail mail works? We put a stamp and address on an envelope and a whole system of people and transportation means is bringing that single envelope to other places.
Count up all previous words and see: Mail Art is inevitable.
P.S. If you want to create and send me mail art about your favourite (weird or common) animal I will be most happy; I'll like to post it on my http://realweirdanimals.blogspot.com blog.
- My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
- Postbus 581
1180 AN Amstelveen
Nederland
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What or whom is she staring at?
Posted on January 3, 2018 at 12:21am 141 Comments 20 Likes
I've sent her to various colleague mail artists.
And great 'this is what she sees' returned home.
Of course new visions still are welcome.
Thank you very much, all of you!
Diorama from Dean
Posted on March 31, 2017 at 12:30am 9 Comments 3 Likes
Stamps which are almost loose but still in their place... Mail from Paris...
That must be Dean's!
The stamps were added to an enormous box which had succeeded to enter my p.o.box. Too big for the scanner, so I show it thanks to 'real…
ContinueRecycled (tissue box) Art by Dean
Posted on August 7, 2016 at 7:33pm 5 Comments 5 Likes
Dean, Artist in Seine, is a master of 3D and recycling Art. This time I found this piece of teared mail art in my mailbox.
The other side showed that part of this piece must has been a tissue box, according to the fresh clean tissues:…
The Soccer Field AAP's
Posted on October 24, 2015 at 2:36pm 4 Comments 3 Likes
For some unknown reason I got a note-pad full of soccer field sheets. First I wanted to draw my favourite soccer team in it, but that appeared too much work regarding the little time I have.
Fortunately some colleague mail artists are willing to help to complete the sheets.
I'll post the added-to-and-passed-on-and-returned-to-me sheets in this…
ContinueComment Wall (248 comments)
- At 2:14pm on January 21, 2025,
Thom Courcelle said…
Hope your day is super special!!
- At 2:06pm on January 21, 2025,
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) said…
- At 8:47am on January 21, 2025,
Mikel Untzilla said…
- At 6:41pm on December 18, 2024,
- At 7:28pm on April 10, 2024,
Mail Art Martha said…
Thank you Heleen for your mail. It is hanging on my dining room wall so I can enjoy your art everytime I go by. It has been admired and found very amusing, not just by me!
- At 4:09pm on March 2, 2024,
M. Mouser DiGerlando said…
Good day Art Post Maker, I love that you are in the Orange Lovers Group!!! This means that I can send you one of the Vintage Orange Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss Cards!
- At 9:24am on January 21, 2024,
- At 4:38pm on December 18, 2023,
Thank you Heleen for your mail that arrived today. Ali is delighted, so happy with his portrait!
- At 1:44pm on August 24, 2023,
Kiki said…
Hello from Japan!
I already found someone to send the Add and Pass sheet but I would be happy to send you my mail art with hand-carved stamps. It would be great if we can exchange mail art :-)
- At 12:54pm on July 23, 2023,
Bonniediva said…
Hey Heleen,
Welcome to the ABC Book! You have letter A
To be clear: you create one page of anything starting with your letter. The size of your page doesn't matter.
Then you send me your page and I add it to my ABC book.
Then I photograph/scan the page and post it online for all to enjoy.
Let me know if you have questions. Thanks so much! Bonnie
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