EXCHANGE-BIJOU 1 – Linda EZERMAN – How I fell in love with shrimps ….
Contemporary jeweller Linda Ezerman lives and works in Wormerveer, The Netherlands. Ezerman has a diverse educational background embrassing areas such as Sculpting, Cultural Management and Communication. Her jewellery plays with the paradoxical feelings her surroudings (the woods and the sea) can invoke, as well as the menaning of their history.
« « In my jewellery I combine non-precious and precious materials. The creation process of my work is lengthy; it takes me many days, if not weeks, to complete a piece of jewellery. I work in an organic manner and combine unusual and unique materials. The result is tactile and wearable light-weight jewellery. Recognise the original materials in my jewellery may require a second or even a third close look.
My jewellery echoes the sea, contemporary and striking. Each piece is handmade and unique. »«
I admired her beach serie, sea seeds, corals & algea jewels ….. This year we got SHRIMPS ! ALL very wearable, VERY desirable shrimps !
Linda Ezerman - Shrimps 2016 – Neckpiece, unique piece Materials: silver, silicone, ink
Linda Ezerman - Neckpiece from the series Shrimps Materials: silver, paint, silicone, pigment
Linda Ezerman Necklace: Shrimp, 2015 Silver, silicone, ink Photo by: Linda Ezerman From series: Shrimps
Linda Ezerman - Neckpiece: Shrimp, 2015 – Silver, silicone, ink – Photo by: Linda Ezerman -From serie: Shrimps
« In my jewellery I express how I experience the outside world. I am fascinated by the surroundings I find myself in and what these surroundings invokes in me: paradoxical feelings of freedom, security and imminent danger.
A walk in the woods, for example, invokes a feeling of freedom, yet the woods also make me feel slightly ill at ease: there always seems to be lurking something in the shadows.
With the sea I also maintain a paradoxical relationship. There is space and unfamiliar life, which I find both fascinating and frightening because of its incomprehensible infinity.
Moreover, the history of my surroundings create meaning. Century-old remnants of industrial life have made this landscape into what it is today and shaped the people who live here into who and what they are.
The materials I work with originate from my surroundings: felt, wood, silver and copper, mixed with polymer clay, silicone and paint. My work is wearable, which allows it to offer security or protection from that which is so intangible and yet so impressive: the surroundings in which you find yourself. » Linda Ezerman
Linda Ezerman Brooch: Shrimp, 2015 Silver, silicone, ink
Had several workshops/workclasses in felt jewelry, polymer clay ‘at Dutch Polymer Guild), goldsmithing
Exhibited in 2016 at « Más que Zuecos y Tulipanes./Més que esclops i tulipes«
She will e at SIERAAD 2016 – Amsterdam – 10-13 Nov. 2016
