Lucy SARNEEL (NL) jewelry

« To me a jewel represents a place in the world in which one can loose oneself like in the sparkling of a diamond or the careful observation of little plants or moss.
A piece of jewellery invites to contemplate and evokes thoughts and emotions.
The basic idea for my pieces of jewellery derives from daily life experiences, thoughts and wonder in which the notion of time plays an important role. We all try to deal with personal lifetime, historic time and universal time.
I’m challenged by the field of tension between the restricted material space and the unlimited mental and spiritual space of a jewel.
Nature is an important point of reference; the question about the naturalness or artificiality of nature fascinates me and results in forms that remind us of flowers, plants or twigs.  » (Lucy Sarneel)

Lucy Sarneel – Necklace: Knot 2006 zinc, glass beads, nylon thread
Lucy Sarneel - Brooch: Jardinet 2007 zinc, antique textile on rubber, diamonds, silver (pin)

 

Une étrange poésie se dégage de ces bijoux en zinc, qui pourraient avoir l’air tristes, ou neutres … non, une douceur … comme une « madeleine » remontée de lointains souvenirs vagues, et doux …. Cela pourrait être froid, le métal, le gris, non, c’est rassurant, comme pourrait l’être un vieux pull, qu’on connait bien et qui nous connait bien …. curieux… et émouvant !

broche ‘ode to Marken’ 2008 zinc, antique glass beads, antique textile on rubber, nylon thread, photo-etch in zinc
necklace ‘sous la neige III’ 2007 – zinc, antique textile on rubber, paint, onyx, nylon thread

necklace ‘la double vie’ 2009 – zinc, antique textile on rubber, nylon thread, paint
necklace ‘souvenir d’1 couvercle’ 2007 – zinc, porcelain, nylon thread