Archive (1989 - ongoing)
03 Finding Form/
Drawings
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí (50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, 1948)
Story
Little sketchbooks accompany me everywhere, mostly to jot down ideas rather than fully develop a design. And of the many ideas for jewels or objects that I sketch – rough and technical scribbles – I only once in a while decide to actually make one.
My sketching habit goes beyond my work with metal. Ever since my teenage years, I have turned to pencils, charcoal, crayons, and Indian ink pens to experiment, relax, and quiet my mind.
Once in a while, I make drawings specifically to cut out silhouettes for collages, window transparencies and Scherenschnitte, a technique very similar to how I make the Swan Lake and Iconic Women jewels.
During summer breaks in the mountains, I often go to classical music concerts and make ‘speed-sketches’ of the musicians and conductors — impossibly difficult and I doubt practice will ever make perfect… But they’re good training in capturing motion and perhaps one day, I will use the best of these sketches in jewellery.
Form
Certain subjects like abstracted silhouettes, dancers and organic doodles have been at the centre of my drawings for a long time. With the exception of my figurative speed sketches, in recent years I have geared towards more elaborate abstract organic forms that are quite meditative to make and sometimes lead to three-dimensional interpretations.
I’m sharing some (collages) of the drawings I made over the years, organised mostly chronologically, as they are part of my artistic expression but also to illustrate how they inform – sometimes one to one – my jewels and objects.
Technique
Basic drawing and experimenting with e.g. crayon etching, paper-cutting, and speed-sketching.
Material
Paper, pencils, crayons, charcoal, ink pens and sometimes tiny scissors.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. – David Hockney (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Martin Gayford, 2011)
03 Finding Form/
Drawings
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí (50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, 1948)
Story
Little sketchbooks accompany me everywhere, mostly to jot down ideas rather than fully develop a design. And of the many ideas for jewels or objects that I sketch – rough and technical scribbles – I only once in a while decide to actually make one.
My sketching habit goes beyond my work with metal. Ever since my teenage years, I have turned to pencils, charcoal, crayons, and Indian ink pens to experiment, relax, and quiet my mind.
Once in a while, I make drawings specifically to cut out silhouettes for collages, window transparencies and Scherenschnitte, a technique very similar to how I make the Swan Lake and Iconic Women jewels.
During summer breaks in the mountains, I often go to classical music concerts and make ‘speed-sketches’ of the musicians and conductors — impossibly difficult and I doubt practice will ever make perfect… But they’re good training in capturing motion and perhaps one day, I will use the best of these sketches in jewellery.
Form
Certain subjects like abstracted silhouettes, dancers and organic doodles have been at the centre of my drawings for a long time. With the exception of my figurative speed sketches, in recent years I have geared towards more elaborate abstract organic forms that are quite meditative to make and sometimes lead to three-dimensional interpretations.
I’m sharing some (collages) of the drawings I made over the years, organised mostly chronologically, as they are part of my artistic expression but also to illustrate how they inform – sometimes one to one – my jewels and objects.
Technique
Basic drawing and experimenting with e.g. crayon etching, paper-cutting, and speed-sketching.
Material
Paper, pencils, crayons, charcoal, ink pens and sometimes tiny scissors.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. – David Hockney (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Martin Gayford, 2011)
03 Finding Form/
