In 1960 he took another study tour to Scandinavia and worked with Kylikki Salmenhaara for the Arabia porcelain factory in Finland.[3] In 1962 Van Loon took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with Hans de Jong, Sonja Landweer, Johnny Rolf, Jan de Rooden and Jan van der Vaart, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.[4]
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.[3]