'Artist of the Month'......February 2023
'Voice' of this month on Lost In Jewellery Magazine is artist
Katrin Veegen
"During my studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts Jewellery and Blacksmithing department I improved myself and also in UK,
at Birmingham University. After graduation I started to work in a privately owned goldsmith-designer company.
Couple of years of gaining practice and further self-development I chose the career of a freelance artist.
I have displayed my creation in many exhibitions in Estonia and abroad, and received also several awards.
Artistic jewellery I make mainly out of desire to express and understand life and my own personal stories, to find interpretations and insights regarding them. Some pieces happen through experimentation and playing with techniques.
I also create limited designer jewelry collections using mainly silver and stones. I am interested in different materials and their usage possibilities.In earlier creation I was fascinated by the play with colors and textures, while now I have started to feel appeal towards more classical materials and techniques, which value is lasting in time and in longer perspective are also more wearer-friendly.
I appreciate technical completion of the works and clarity and purity in design." Katrin Veegen
at Birmingham University. After graduation I started to work in a privately owned goldsmith-designer company.
Couple of years of gaining practice and further self-development I chose the career of a freelance artist.
I have displayed my creation in many exhibitions in Estonia and abroad, and received also several awards.
Artistic jewellery I make mainly out of desire to express and understand life and my own personal stories, to find interpretations and insights regarding them. Some pieces happen through experimentation and playing with techniques.
I also create limited designer jewelry collections using mainly silver and stones. I am interested in different materials and their usage possibilities.In earlier creation I was fascinated by the play with colors and textures, while now I have started to feel appeal towards more classical materials and techniques, which value is lasting in time and in longer perspective are also more wearer-friendly.
I appreciate technical completion of the works and clarity and purity in design." Katrin Veegen
Artist Katrin Veegen
Is it more important for you the process, or the final Artwork itself?
"I do enjoy the journey. It helps me grow and challenges me on many different levels and it gives time to contemplate.
Final artwork gives me pleasure and it keeps the door open for the next step, to start with a new journey.
Sometimes I think there is not such a thing as a finished piece, they are all small chapters of a longer story." Katrin Veegen
"I do enjoy the journey. It helps me grow and challenges me on many different levels and it gives time to contemplate.
Final artwork gives me pleasure and it keeps the door open for the next step, to start with a new journey.
Sometimes I think there is not such a thing as a finished piece, they are all small chapters of a longer story." Katrin Veegen
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Artist Katrin Veegen
Interview with the Artist
Interview with the Artist
1. Where is your inspiration coming from ?
From outside and inside. From future hopes and memories. From puzzles and conclusions. From shatters and balance. From every day and eternal. From good and bad. From witty and dull. From burning colors and foggy haze. And all the places in between.
2. What are you trying to communicate with your Artwork?
Usually quite basic human conditions that still surprise and confuse even as we grow and gain more experience. Emotions that on a universal level unite and yet individually often seem to seal us in a gray bubble if not provoked. In my more design oriented pieces I rather like to play with the form and structure. Taking things apart and putting them back together, valuing the inner, sometimes hidden, balance and outer controversy.
3. Which material do you prefer to use and why ?
This varies a lot. In conceptual pieces I let the process and the underlying idea carry me away and through that try to find materials that serve the purpose in a best way possible. I may start with one and end up with a completely different material or technique. I have used sushi sticks, jesmonite, leather, bottle caps, paint, many different metals and stones, ostrich bone and so on. But the dominant of all is definitely silver that I trust the most.
4. How much value do you give to researching material for your creations?
It is very refreshing and exiting to find a need to use materials that I have no previous experience with. It is a brand new relationship with its learning curve. This sometimes takes me to paths and revelations, were I would not have ended up otherwise. Here is the place where many “happy accidents” happen.
5. Is it more important for you the process, or the final Artwork itself?
I do enjoy the journey. It helps me grow and challenges me on many different levels and it gives time to contemplate. Final artwork gives me pleasure and it keeps the door open for the next step, to start with a new journey. Sometimes I think there is not such a thing as a finished piece, they are all small chapters of a longer story.
6. Is there an Artist you prefer & admire and why?
I admire many for different reasons. Some for their energy, some for they technical skills, some for the fresh and bold way of seeing things, some for their humor, some for simplicity where everything unnecessary has been stripped away and thus reached the core essence of things.
7. Have you ever thought to collaborate with other Artists , or do you like to work on your own?
I have thought about it, just for pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Working with others usually spikes my energy up over the top but soon I find falling from the peak of that burst into empty tiredness. So short term collaborations suite me, but not long and intense ones. I burn out quickly.
8. Where do you feel you are at with your last Art collection?
Between chapters.
9. What have you discovered about yourself as an Artist along the years ?
I have learned to trust the process more and to give myself permission to fail and try again without fixed expectations. And that it is ok to be just me on my own personal path. To be kinder towards myself.
10. Two words to describe your last Artwork collection.
Braking raw
Katrin Veegen
1. Where is your inspiration coming from ?
From outside and inside. From future hopes and memories. From puzzles and conclusions. From shatters and balance. From every day and eternal. From good and bad. From witty and dull. From burning colors and foggy haze. And all the places in between.
2. What are you trying to communicate with your Artwork?
Usually quite basic human conditions that still surprise and confuse even as we grow and gain more experience. Emotions that on a universal level unite and yet individually often seem to seal us in a gray bubble if not provoked. In my more design oriented pieces I rather like to play with the form and structure. Taking things apart and putting them back together, valuing the inner, sometimes hidden, balance and outer controversy.
3. Which material do you prefer to use and why ?
This varies a lot. In conceptual pieces I let the process and the underlying idea carry me away and through that try to find materials that serve the purpose in a best way possible. I may start with one and end up with a completely different material or technique. I have used sushi sticks, jesmonite, leather, bottle caps, paint, many different metals and stones, ostrich bone and so on. But the dominant of all is definitely silver that I trust the most.
4. How much value do you give to researching material for your creations?
It is very refreshing and exiting to find a need to use materials that I have no previous experience with. It is a brand new relationship with its learning curve. This sometimes takes me to paths and revelations, were I would not have ended up otherwise. Here is the place where many “happy accidents” happen.
5. Is it more important for you the process, or the final Artwork itself?
I do enjoy the journey. It helps me grow and challenges me on many different levels and it gives time to contemplate. Final artwork gives me pleasure and it keeps the door open for the next step, to start with a new journey. Sometimes I think there is not such a thing as a finished piece, they are all small chapters of a longer story.
6. Is there an Artist you prefer & admire and why?
I admire many for different reasons. Some for their energy, some for they technical skills, some for the fresh and bold way of seeing things, some for their humor, some for simplicity where everything unnecessary has been stripped away and thus reached the core essence of things.
7. Have you ever thought to collaborate with other Artists , or do you like to work on your own?
I have thought about it, just for pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Working with others usually spikes my energy up over the top but soon I find falling from the peak of that burst into empty tiredness. So short term collaborations suite me, but not long and intense ones. I burn out quickly.
8. Where do you feel you are at with your last Art collection?
Between chapters.
9. What have you discovered about yourself as an Artist along the years ?
I have learned to trust the process more and to give myself permission to fail and try again without fixed expectations. And that it is ok to be just me on my own personal path. To be kinder towards myself.
10. Two words to describe your last Artwork collection.
Braking raw
Katrin Veegen
Artist Katrin Veegen
Where is your inspiration coming from ?
"From outside and inside. From future hopes and memories. From puzzles and conclusions. From shatters and balance.
From every day and eternal. From good and bad. From witty and dull.
From burning colors and foggy haze. And all the places in between."
Katrin Veegen
"From outside and inside. From future hopes and memories. From puzzles and conclusions. From shatters and balance.
From every day and eternal. From good and bad. From witty and dull.
From burning colors and foggy haze. And all the places in between."
Katrin Veegen
Artist Katrin Veegen
