Karin Carmeliet ~ Goldsmith

Karin is an art goldsmith, she creates metal jewelry sometimes accompanied by pretty stones.
"When I make a sketch of a jewel, it comes from a difficult to describe momentum which is the "need to create". Only the precious metal, me and my senses will determine the beauty and the final accuracy of the jewel. Nature is my inspiring ally. I consider the hard work of flattening, bending, stretching, hammering stiff metal and achieving a jewel of delicate finesse almost as an obvious result as “satisfying research”. Thus the technique used and the dead material become a little piece of living heat of myself."