selected for SCHMUCK 2015 : Karen Vanmol
« Karen Vanmol finds a city without nature claustrophobic, but nature with no sign of humanity is too quiet. She uses her tools trying out how materials reacts to them. «
« As in my earlier work, I find my inspiration in architecture and nature. Except that everything continues to evolve and change. A city without a little nature works claustrophobic for me, but a nature landscape with no sign of humanity is too quiet for me. Protecting or imitating nature, the use of natural materials in architecture, the restoring of a road surface, accidental strong shapes on a construction site, these things I find very interesting.
On my way through town, I hunt and collect. I always encounter interesting images that I use as an inspiration. In addition, there is a certain choice of materials and colors, these are strongly influenced by memories. For example the necklaces, furniture in different colors, certain constructions. I make my story and the viewer projects its own story on top of mine.
I always start from my sources of inspiration, with these eyes I look around me. I show viewers how I look at things around me. Next to that I make jewellery and I like to use my tools and try out how materials reacts to them. Eventually I work with materials, and that provides an additional factor. I find out the properties they possess and how I can edit them and this will count in the final result. Some techniques I use are common and you can find them in your house.
Naturally I tend to work clean and delineated, here I try against it by for example damaging materials. It gets me out of my comfort zone and it bothers me, but at the same time I want to do it. » Karen Vanmol page at Klimt02
Karen Vanmol - Brooch ‘Cultivate’ 2014
Karen Vanmol - « Cultivate » Brooch: wood, fiber reinforced plastics, brass, steel, 2013 .
Karen Vanmol - brooch back & front – Wood, formica, veneer, silver, steel pin 2012
Karen Vanmol, « Cultivate » Necklace 2, 2014, wood, laminate, plastic, vintage beads, brass, spray-paint, 110 x 270 x 20 mm, photo: artist
Karen Vanmol « Evolving Habitat » Necklace 2012 Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, veneer, oxidized silver, vintage plastic beads Pendant: 8 x 11 x 1 cm chain: 44 cm
Karen Vanmol - « cultivate » collection – brooch 2013
Karen Vanmol Rings: Under construction 2010 Wood, concrete, paint, cotton, silver 2.5 cm x 4 cm x 3.5 cm
Karen Vanmol - « Under construction » collection
