Voor velen was ze een geliefde dichteres.
Voor mij was ze vooral mijn liefste zee-, watervogel-, wolkenluchten- en sprookjesmoeder.
Je vliegt voorbij in elke meeuw mam,
ik ga je vreselijk missen.

Uit de PZC (Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant) 10 juli 2026
Rolf Bosboom – Algemeen verslaggever

Kruit, een van de bekendste Zeeuwse schrijvers en dichters, is woensdag overleden. Zij is 85 jaar geworden.
Kruit groeide op in Zoutelande. Nadat zij vanwege een hernia lange tijd op bed moest liggen, begon ze op latere leeftijd met schrijven. Het leidde in 1976 – precies vijftig jaar geleden – tot haar debuut met Achter een glimlach, een poëziebundel voor volwassenen.

Al snel ging ze zich steeds meer toeleggen op verhalen en gedichten voor jongeren en kinderen, bij wie ze zeer populair was. In de loop der jaren verschenen vele tientallen boeken van haar hand.

Toonaangevende dichteres
„Johanna was een toonaangevende dichteres en stond in het circuit van de kinder- en jeugdpoëzie vaak alleen in een gezelschap van vooral mannelijke dichters”, schrijft de bekende auteur Ted van Lieshout in een reactie op haar overlijden. „Te midden van hen viel ze op met een dromerigheid en zachtheid die, ook qua sfeer en variatie, opvallend goed bij haar pasten en bij het landschap waar zij zich het meest thuis voelde: Zeeland.”

Margreet de Haan van boekhandel ’t Spui in Vlissingen noemt haar ‘een fantastische dichteres en schrijver’. „Zo uniek en zacht in haar menszijn. En tegelijkertijd een ontzettend sterke persoonlijkheid die het in haar begintijd moest opnemen tegen de veelal door mannen gedomineerde literaire wereld. Daarin slaagde ze met vlag en wimpel.”

Groot aantal prijzen
Johanna Kruit won met haar werk een groot aantal prijzen en haar poëzie wordt nog steeds regelmatig opgenomen in bloemlezingen en bundels. In 2024 werd ze geëerd met de Prijs van de Zeeuwse Boekhandel.

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

It’s been a month since I published something – anything – on my blog so it’s about time I show you my latest art journal spreads. I just upload these pages without explanation ’cause you know what? I don’t feel like sitting at the computer too long. The sun is shining, the weather is wonderful, it’s my day off and I have a nice book waiting for me… I am heading straight back to my little balcony to sit beneath the parasol and read.

Week 16

Week 17

Week 18

Week 19

Week 20

Hope your day is shiny and bright too, enjoy!
Je t’embrasse

So, it’s been a long time, but Sarah is still hosting the ‘deskers’ and I have a little vacation (this week and the next) to fill with whatever I want – a lot of creating going on – and I thought it would be fun to join in this wednesday to see if all my former desk-collaborators are still there. HI THERE, MY FELLOW ARTISTS & DESKERS, I plan on visiting you this week and am curious to see what you’re all up to.

For now, here’s how my workdesk looks today

WOYWW #882

It’s a rather big project I’m working on: making 80 “prompt/inspiration cards”. I got a list of “prompts” from a woman in an art journal group on Facebook. I printed those prompts and selected eighty of them. Next, I spend an afternoon making gelliplate-prints and glued those on old playing cards.

Next, I dived into my stash of scrapbook papers to glue on the back.

I’m still cutting out and gluing the prompt-sentences, and it will cost me another afternoon or so to finish the task. I might decorate the cards even more, depending on the time I have left ’cause there are more things I want to work on this week as there is: my CHRONICLES!

For all the ones who knew me from former years: yes, I am still journaling and keeping my ‘Chronicles’ going.
For the ones who don’t know me yet… I am an art journaler, I bind my own journals to fill them with all kinds of things (‘mixed media’)
I work in different journals but there’s one ‘theme journal’, The Chronicles, that I keep going since 2010 and that can be seen as a red thread… These are handmade visual year-journals in which I create a weekly spread. It’s sort of a visual diary and on its pages I comment and reflect on my days or just try to capture the week in words and pictures,

My friend Lena took photo’s of me with all my Chronicles journals the other day, ain’t this a fun picture?

Here’s the latest week spreads.

Chronicles Week 13
Gelli print background, collage (the three little pictures = details of my art, older work) and yes, I’m a bicycle race fan…

Chronicles Week 14
Painted background, washi tape, gelliprint cut out ‘eggs’ (it was the week of Easter) and I painted the heads of me and my friend on cut-out figures.

Chronicles Week 15
The big portrait is cut out of a magazine: famous bicycle racer Wout van Aert

And that’s it for me this week. Hope you enjoyed seeing me and my art again… enjoy your week!

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

*inspired by Ingrid Jonker: “moenie slaap nie”
Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

I had a busy month but I managed to keep up with my Chronicles art journal. Here are the past weeks

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

I wish you all a happy Easter.
Paint an egg or two, eat an egg or two and
keep on rockin’ in the free world!

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

…last week, I took some of my old scrapbook albums with me when I visited my parent, so they could flip through all the layouts. I have a lot of albums and before I put them in a bag I flipped through them myself… OH MY, that was fun! I got inspired right away to dabble into that way of creating again…

There are still some challenge blogs to be find online so I went to find Challenge YOUrself – one of my faves hosted by Sharon Fritchman. I loved the challenge that was up there right now but I also learned that the blog will be closing in june… so I took the opportunity to play along right away and create a layout for this month’s challenge.

Challenge YOUrself #147 – Celebrating friendship

The theme for this month’s challenge is “Celebrating Friendship!” Feel free to interpret the theme however you like, as long as it clearly conveys the message of friendship. Additionally, please remember to include a photo of YOU on your project.

I had this silly photo – edited with a photo filter – of me and my co-worker who became a good friend over the years, and I just HAD to use that…

I had so much fun creating this layout’; I’d forgotten how relaxing and cheerful this playing without pretension is so I might create more of these.
Thanks for stopping by my blog,
enjoy your day,
do something nice,
visit a friend,
act silly,
laugh.

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

~ Timothy Leary ~