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Colette Berends: Her life and
her art
Webpage composed and edited by
Lynn Conway
Copyright © 2003-2005, by Colette Berends
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All rights reserved
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Colette Berends (Netherlands)
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[ click on photo for larger view
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- This page is dedicated to Colette Berends, and contain
articles and stories about her remarkable life and wonderful
art. The page is now being augmented, as we collect weblinks,
articles and photographs that tell her story and show some of
her artistry.
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- As a beautiful young entertainer in the Netherlands, Colette
began her transition from MtF during her early twenties. For
fifteen long years she worked in showbiz, working '"everywhere"
in Europe and North-africa, "swallowing hormones and saving
for operations". Colette completed her TS transition in
1971, undergoing SRS by Dr. Georges Burou in Casablanca, Morocco.
She went on to further fame as an entertainer, and has travelled
over much of the world. Later in life Colette became the owner-operator
of a beauty salon in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Always a very
creative person she also began her explorations in textile artistry,
and that work that has since won her many awards.
Colette in 1968
Colette in 1980 in Zurich
[ photos from "Van
jongen tot vrouw met allure", Zwolsche Courant, 21 maart 1986 ]
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- Now 68 years of age, Colette enjoys working part-time at
her salon. This enables her to spend plenty of time on her textile
artistry, and on teaching others the special techniques of that
art form. She also enjoys taking frequent vacation trips with
her boyfriend Ton, a steady partner for the past 21 years.
Ton and Colette
On Vacation
- We are now translating articles
and webpages about Colette into English and are posting the translations here. Colette
has also sent us more photos of her artistry, and we are compiling pages of
those photos into a web gallery of her work. To get a glimpse of Colette's life and her
art, you can explore the following webpages (you can use FreeTranslation
to visualize essentials of stories not yet translated into English):
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Here is a glimpse of Colette
Berends' textile-collage
artistry.
(For more
examples, see her web-gallery)
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De Clowns. Textielcollage,
by Colette Berends
- 108cm x 152cm
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of Quilts 1998)
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- Avondje uit. Textielcollage
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- Fellini's Roma.
Textielcollage
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- You may write Colette at
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- Colette Berends
- Gombertstraat 32
- 8031 MA Zwolle
- NETHERLANDS
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