Elisabeth Holder

Jewellery as an Interplay of Opposites

The author’s jewellery works are an expression of an interplay between geometric abstraction, on the one hand, and the organic form, on the other, spanning the full spectrum between strict geometry and the organic in all its diverse forms.


Additional differentiations are exemplified in the following contrasting juxtapositions. Things taken from nature and basic geometric forms meet in stark contrast. Within their opposing poles, basic materials blend and merge into such an intimate union that they seem to have fused. In a further differentiation, geometric constructions, rectangularly angular and cool in their effect, are juxtaposed with bodies set in vibration, which owe their vitality to the hand-drawn grid of lines.


The order found for the works shown is not based on the chronological sequence of their creation, but on a happening shaped by artistic interests.