COLLECSSION is a made-up word.

COLLECSSION is about COLLECting and paSSION.

COLLECSSION features three new collections of brooches inspired by the delicate world of botany.

pieces created from vintage buttons and toy soldiers.

a comment on an alternative reality.

constructed to resemble plant-life, but they reveal a secret intent – the soldiers seem to be dancing, playing (think synchronised swimming).

Second Life features eighty-eight brooches – each one unique, numbered, and available exclusively at RA.

sixty-one brooches made of copper with an acrylic layer.

just as in nature, what comes out of the tuber is always a little unexpected and surprising.

unique colour effects are created by folding and unfolding the copper

think of the inkblots in the rorschach test…

the structure creates a vein-like relief illustrating the beginning of life, like the Tuber.

no two Tuber brooches are quite the same, nor ever will be.

a series rendered in grey sketching board.

cut and assembled to mirror elements of nature.

each piece hand-made as a variation of the first.

every brooch is a new interpretation, the birth of a new life form.

each Sketch is coated to be water resistant, but keeps its strange mix of roughness/delicacy.

‘Pine’ is the first Sketch and consists of thirty-four different brooches.

Time and belief are often being noticed at certain moments; being late, losing something or being in trouble.

Time and belief are often being handled by man-made means – such as ‘bending’ the time-zones to fit a certain country, or ‘communicating’ with a god through prayers..

24+X captures the cycle of earth and a day in the form of a blind-printed triptych. Just as time and belief, the image may not be visible at first glance and only reveals when a greater attention is paid.

Part of the Copy Nature project.

Plastic fruits and vegetables have been cut into pieces and then fused together  into new compositions, creating ‘new species’.

Cast in bronze and then carefully polished, the new objects turn into small precious containers.
This work  comments on the possible loss or mutation of the original through cycles of copies, imitation and reproduction.

Hana is the Japanese word for ‘flower’. Flower motives are a well known element widely used in jewelry design.

Hana is also the Japanese word for ‘nose’. Noses are rarely used in jewelry design.

The Hana Ring can bring your hand to life – in an instance it would evolve into a friendly creature, eager to communicate with others!

With special thanks to Céline and Annemarie.

A special edition of Penna – only available at RA – Kloosterstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium

All the butterflies used for the design has the initial of ‘R’ or ‘A’.

Animal materials, such as skin and bones have been used for centuries for the making of jewelry.

The Animal Necklaces uses a different type of animals as material.

The Animal Necklaces offer a refreshing alternative to animal-material based jewelry.

Materials: beads, soft-toys

Now for sale at RA

In Little Wonders I evoke the same feeling as I had in my childhood and express those feelings in four different ways: