The Hand and the Glass Adrie Grootens began learning the mechanics of drawing at the age of eight in a school in Bergen op Zoom. It was a quiet start for a man who would eventually move between the heavy, tactile world of stained glass and the delicate precision of printmaking. He spent his early years studying under Jan Karsenboom, absorbing the way light interacts with surface and shape. His life was marked by a steady, working relat…