{"Id":7380,"Name":"Joke Frima","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022intro\u0022\u003EContact Info:\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.jokefrima.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.jokefrima.com\u003C/a\u003E \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http://artrevisited.com/relations/joke_frima\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp://artrevisited.com/relations/joke_frima\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https://www.facebook.com/joke.frima\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps://www.facebook.com/joke.frima\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EEmail: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jokefrima@gmail.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ejokefrima@gmail.com \u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Joke Frima, was born in The Hague, Netherlands, and is presently living in France. She exhibits mainly in Amsterdam, Netherlands. \u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cbr /\u003E1969 Academy of Fine Arts , Rotterdam\u003Cbr /\u003E1970 Academy of Fine Arts, Tilburg, The Netherlands \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EAfter wasting her time in the art schools in the Netherlands for so many years, she met by chance Signorina Nerina Simi in Florence Italy. Joke studied in Studio Simi from September 1976 until September 1984 and learned all the classical basic techniques from Signorina Simi. In 1977-78 She received a grant from the Greenshield foundation.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E1984 moved back to the Netherlands \u003Cbr /\u003E1999 Moved to France\u003Cbr /\u003E 2007 Moved from Biches to Vissingy. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Joke Frima has a very spacious and bright studio as well as her own exhibition space. It is situated in the former school in the hamlet Vissingy, in Bourgogne France. She organizes an annual exhibition usually in May. Her studio in the Netherlands is in Driebergen (near Utrecht). \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EFor the numerous exhibitions and art fairs Joke Frima travels regularly to the Netherlands. The combination of the very rural and quiet environment in which to work and the frequent busy visits to the Netherlands proves to be particularly fruitful.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EJoke Frima finds her subject matter in everyday beauty in nature. In her vegetal still lives she shows us nature not yet picked clean or manicured by man. She looks for common things like a meadow with butterbur, a cluster of strawberries or dandelions. The low viewpoint she chooses, Frima appears to be lying in the grass, makes you want to creep deep into her paintings to find your own way through the leaves. In an abstracted play of texture, rhythm, light and colour, Frima manages to evoke a sense of calm and harmony in a rather modest subject and also grab the viewers\u0027 full attention. \u003Cem\u003ESimulacrum\u003C/em\u003E is winner First Place Prize of the Landscape Category- International ARC Salon 2013-14.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":"\u003Cp\u003E**Awards and Memberships:**\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;- 2023: 16th ARC Salon Competition, Second Place Landscape, 2 finalists drawing category, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2022: 15th ARC Salon Competition, two finalists in the landscape category, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2021: Members Only Competition, Portrait Society of America, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2021: Salmagundi Club, Sylvia Maria Glesmann Award for Excellence, New York, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2021: Studio Pintura Jured Spring Floral Art Exhibition, First Prize Award, Minneapolis, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2021: Two finalist paintings at the 15th International Salon Competition, Art Renewal, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2020: FACE Competition, Top 25 Finalists Award, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2019: 14th ARC Salon Competition, Honorable Mention for Rainy Day Lotus, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2018: 13th ARC Salon Competition, Three Finalists, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2018: 13th ARC Salon Competition, Arcadia Contemporary Award for Morello Tree, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2018: 13th ARC Salon Competition, Purchase Award, Equality and Diversity, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2017: ARC Purchase Award for Watermelon Invasion, Oil on Linen \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2017: Grand Prize Winner, International Artist Magazine, Florals and Gardens, Big Plums on Tree \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2016: 12th ARC Salon Competition, Finalists Eternal Return and Immanence, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2016: 12th ARC Salon Competition, Honorable Mention, Landscape for Epiphany, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2015: 11th ARC Salon Competition, 3 finalists in landscape category, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2013: 10th ARC Salon Competition, First Place Prize in Landscape, Simulacrum, USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2015: TRAC Online Art Competition, Third Place and another Third Place, TRAC Competition 3 \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2014: Membership, Salmagundi Club, New York \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2017: Certificate of Merit Award, Outstanding Work, Salmagundi Club, \u0022Radiant Still Life\u0022,USA \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2016: Membership, Portrait Society of America \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2016: Winning Entry Title: Eternal Return, 2nd Place, Still Life, Portrait Society of America \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- 2015: Member, Pulchri Studio Society, The Hague, Netherlands \u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2010: Joke Frima is recognized as a Living Master by Art Renewal, ARCLM.\u003Cbr /\u003E2020/24 Joke Frima was nominated for election of Artist of the Year in the Netherlands\u003C/p\u003E","HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":62}