Van Loon studied textile design at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1952 to 1956, and from 1957 to 1960 at the
Konstfack in
Stockholm under
Stig Lindberg. in 1960 from
Thera Hofstede Crull, and in 1961 at the
Camberwell College of Arts in
London under
Lucie Rie. In 1960 he took another study tour to Scandinavia and worked with Kylikki Salmenhaara for the Arabia porcelain factory in Finland. In the year 1963–64 he worked with the ceramic designer
Stig Lindberg in
Stockholm, where he constructed wall ceramics. Back in The Netherlands he started his own studio in Hengelo in 1966. He designed a series of unique ceramic sculpture which were produced by the
Royal Copenhagen ceramic factory in
Copenhagen. In 1966 he also started to lecture textile design and ceramics at several Dutch art academies. From 1977 to 1986 he lectured at the
AKV St. Joost, and late 1980s he founded the ceramics department at the ArtEZ Art & Design in
Enschede. Since 1994 he also lectured in Germany. == See also ==