Karen Vanmol
Jeweller
Published: 10.10.2018
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hotmail.comNecklace: AKA#ISeeFaces, 2018
Wood, laminate, blackened silver, cotton.
16 x 26 x 0.8cm
Photo by: Karen Vanmol
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Earrings: AKA#ISeeFaces, 2018
Wood, laminate, silver.
4 x 8 x 0.5 cm
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Necklace: AKA#ISeeFaces, 2017
Wood, laminate, patinated silver
25 x 30 x 1 cm
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Brooch: AKA#ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel.
11 x 3.6 x 0.8 cm
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Brooch: AKA # ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel
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Brooch: AKA # ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel
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Brooch: AKA # ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel
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Necklace: AKA # ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, silver
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Necklace: AKA #ISeeFaces, 2015
Wood, laminate, silver
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Brooch: Paradolia, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel
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Brooch: Paradolia, 2015
Wood, laminate, steel
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Earrings: Paradolia, 2015
Wood, laminate, silver
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Ring: Cultivate, 2014
Wood, laminate, brass, paint, oxidized silver
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Necklace: Cultivate, 2014
Wood, laminate, brass, paint, oxidized silver, vintage plastic beads
18 x 24 x 2,5 cm
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Necklace: Cultivate, 2014
Wood, laminate, brass, paint, oxidized silver, vintage plastic beads
20 x 27 x 4,5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Cultivate, 2014
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, brass, paint, steel
13 x 5 x 2.5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Cultivate, 2013
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, brass, paint, steel
4.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Cultivate, 2013
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, brass, paint, steel
7 x 6 x 2.5 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Cultivate, 2013
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, vintage plastic beads, brass, paint, steel
45 x 8.5 x 4 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Cultivate, 2013
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, brass, paint, steel
4 x 6.5 x 4 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Evolving Habitat, 2012
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, acrylate, paint, stone, steel pin
5 x 5.5 x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolEarrings: Evolving Habitat, 2012
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, oxidized silver
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Karen VanmolBracelet: Evolving Habitat, 2012
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, veneer
10 x 10 x 6.5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Evolving Habitat, 2012
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, acrylate, paint, zinc, steel pin
5 x 4 x 1.5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Evolving Habitat, 2012
Wood, fiber reinforced plastics, veneer, acrylate, paint, vintage plastic beads, steel pin
3 x 3.5 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, veneer, silver, steel pin
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, veneer, silver, old plastic beads
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, roofing , silver, old plastic beads
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, veneer, old plastic beads
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, veneer, old plastic beads
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Untitled, 2012
Wood, formica, veneer, old plastic beads, acrylate, steel pin
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood paint brass
4 x 10 x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood paint brass
10 x 10 x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood paint brass cotton
8 x 35 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood paint gold leaf brass silver cotton
18 x 38 x 3 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood paint gold leaf zinc brass cotton
13 x 35 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc paint cotton
19 x 32 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc paint cotton glass acrylate brass cotton
8 x 45 x 3 cm
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Necklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc paint gold leaf brass
10 x 7 x 15 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc paint gold leaf cotton
13 x 38 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc rubber gold leaf brass cotton
7 x 46 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2011
Wood zinc paint brass polymer gold leaf cotton
8 x 40 x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Fading Landscape, 2010
Wood, zinc, paint, silver
10 cm x 6.5 cm x 15 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2010
Wood, zinc, roofing, goldleaf, paint, silver, cotton, brass
6.5 cm x 40 cm x 1.4 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Fading Landscape, 2010
Wood, zinc, paint, goldleaf, brass, silver
8.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Fading Landscape, 2010
Wood, zinc, paint, brass, cotton
6.5 cm x 46 cm x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Wood, silver, paint, cotton
11 cm x 42 cm x 3 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Concrete, silver, paint, cotton
5.8 cm x 45 cm x 1.2 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Concrete, silver, paint, cotton
5.8 cm x 45 cm x 1.2 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Wood, silver, paint, cotton
2 cm x 35 cm x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Wood, silver, paint, cotton
2.1 cm x 38 cm x 1.8 cm
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Karen VanmolNecklace: Under construction, 2010
Wood, silver, cotton, paint
20 cm x 38 cm x 1 cm
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Ring: Under construction, 2010
Wood, concrete, paint, cotton, silver
2.5 cm x 4 cm x 3.5 cm
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Karen VanmolRing: Under construction, 2010
Wood, concrete, cotton, paint
2.8 cm x 3.5 cm x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolRing: Under construction, 2010
Wood, paint, cotton
5 cm x 3.5 cm x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolRing: Under construction, 2010
Wood, paint, cotton
2.2 cm x 3 cm x 1.8 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Under construction, 2010
Wood, concrete, paint, cotton, silver
5 cm x 17 cm x 1 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Under construction, 2010
Wood, paint, cotton, silver
6.5 cm x 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm
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Karen VanmolBrooch: Under construction, 2010
Wood, concrete, paint, cotton, silver
6.5 cm x 5 cm x 2 cm
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Karen VanmolRing: Twofingerring, 2009
Gold
4 cm x 2 cm x 0.5 cm
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Karen VanmolRing: Twofingerring, 2008
Silver
4 cm x 2.8 cm x 0.7 cm
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I always startfrom 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.
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Paradolia takes place in the psyche and makes us see familiar things in random shapes. The human mind always has the desire to be able to name things and thus creates this illusion. Our brains are so eager to recognize patterns and correlations they see them where there are none. Just like children see a castle in the sky.
In this work I look for the tension by disturbing the symmetry. How far can you go, in choosing (or letting coincidence happen) shapes, disturbing repetition or mixing colors. I choose to make my work by hand and not make it absolutely symmetrical by using computer-controlled programs.
In the shapes I am not looking for recognizability , that comes automatically. A few fixed conditions are the dimensions, they come from the materials and their limitations. The shapes, used them earlier for my work, that is why some shapes return. I don't want to have much residual material since a lot of laminates I use are old and thereby very limited in quantity.
Under Construction- Fading Landscape- Evolving Habitat- Cultivate
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.
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