Family tree Veenstra, Dijkstra, Peperkamp and Van den Dobbelsteen » Alida Adriana van Leeuwen (1924-2000)

Personal data Alida Adriana van Leeuwen 

• She was born on September 21, 1924 in Kwala Bingei (Nederlands Indië).
• Fact: (diversen) .

  There's hardly a connection between a palette-knife painting and ocean fishing until you listen to artist and deep-sea fisherwoman Alida Van Gores.
  
  "There's something so magnificent about the ocean," the 64-year-old woman said, as she scanned the blue horizon from a viewing deck around the Laguna Beach oceanfront house she and husband, Eugene Van Gores, 64, built. "I just drink it in every day. It's so permanent and a tremendous source of inspiration."
  
  That's the part she paints on canvas with a palette knife.
  
  The other connection occurs each month when she boards a charter fishing boat with a group of women called the Dana Wharf Lady Anglers and heads to Mexican waters to fish for albacore.
  
  The all-women anglers group (except for a deckhand and the boat skipper) is the result of "being pushed around too many times on fishing trips by the boys who thought we were invading a man's world," she said.
  
  But now, she noted, after four years of fishing monthly for albacore, "We're all self-sufficient on the boat" and said she feels the world will change when more women learn to become self-sufficient.
  
  On one of her outings, she won the trolling competition for catching a 20-pound albacore. That whole day belonged to her; she landed 24 albacore overall. "Boy oh boy, the magic word for me that day was 'hookup,' " she said, the word shouted to alert others to watch their fishing lines.
  
  And when she came home, she cooked her prize-winning catch. "I cook all the fish I catch," she explained.
  
  If the ocean and fishing fulfill her physical needs, they also inspire her palette-knife painting, which has earned her an enviable reputation within the Laguna Beach art community as well as in art circles throughout the Southland.
  
  "That's why I'm so good at subjects like lighthouses, shorebirds and such scenes as the crashing sea," she said. "I love the ocean. It lives inside me and often gives me strength."
  
  She is also a palette-knife painting teacher, and for the past 10 years, she has been demonstrating her skills as an exhibitor at the annual Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach.
  
  Besides the palette-knife oil paintings, she gives instruction in her other artistic talent, the engraving of ocean scenes on plastic and metal.
  
  The engraving tools were made by her husband, a former Hawthorne policeman, who years ago presented her with what she said is her most prized gift: a cement mixer.
  
  "I use it constantly to build the proper surroundings for the gardening I do around the house," she said, noting that pouring cement is an artistic talent in another form.
  
  "Cement is a very permanent thing, too."

• She died on July 15, 2000 in Laguna Beach, Orange County, California (USA), she was 75 years old.
• A child of Jan Frederik van Leeuwen and Jacoba Bos
• This information was last updated on December 6, 2015.

Household of Alida Adriana van Leeuwen

She is married to Eugene van Gores.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Alida Adrianna van Gores  1951-1998 
2. (Not public)
3. (Not public)

Do you have supplementary information, corrections or questions with regards to Alida Adriana van Leeuwen?
The author of this publication would love to hear from you!

Timeline Alida Adriana van Leeuwen

Click on the names for more info. Symbols used:  grandparents    parents    brothers/sisters    children