Wearable Art - sculptural, distinctive, with a unique signature
The inexhaustible richness of forms and colors in nature serves as the starting point for my jewelry work. I am particularly interested in the often inconspicuous details such as seed pods, flower calyxes, branches, or fine surface textures. I observe, collect, and translate these elements into my own formal language. From individual fragments, I develop collage-like, organically grown, seemingly organic structures. Using techniques such as lost-wax casting, raising and chasing, as well as the use of plastics, I shape sculptural jewelry objects that evoke imaginary plants.
Color is a central design element for me. I use it deliberately not just to depict natural models, but to enhance and exaggerate them. I am particularly interested in strong, luminous hues such as intense pink, rose, green, orange, and yellow. Through them, I intensify the effect of the forms, emphasize structures, and give the objects their own presence.
At the same time, I play with the tension between nature and artificiality. Color creates a distance from the natural template and makes the works appear deliberately artificial. This oscillation between the familiar and the foreign fascinates me. In the combination of form and color, I try to make energy, vitality, and joy of life visible and to give the objects an independent, poetic expressive power.
brooches
Pigmented plastic, hand-formed, partly epoxy resin
Brooches and Necklaces
cast in silver, aluminum and tombac, painted with acrylic paint (2020-2024)
Brooches and Necklaces
from copper mounted and enamel (2013-2020)