Stefanie Verhoef
Stefanie Verhoef is an artist and contemporary jewellery designer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
She makes contemporary jewelry with a conceptual character. Her designs are defined by a rough edged yet delicate aesthetic. She tries to add story to her pieces by looking for innovative contrasts while designing. It’s an overarching theme in all her collections. I would almost call it an obsessive urge to place a dissimilarity opposite of an existing shape. This way both interacting elements can fully show their potential. The contrasts can be found in innovative stone settings, use of color, material or in the shape itself. Stefanie looks for a certain balance in the unbalanced.
The stories she tells are personal observations or experiences and can be found in various collections. Stories are endless and so are most of her collections; designs keep developing and thus a collection is never really finished.
She was trained as a goldsmith during a technical education in Amsterdam and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and Education. Throughout her art studies, jewelry and design have always played a big role. Being trained as a goldsmith, a fine arts artist and an art teacher, she’s learned many ways of creating and expressing.
Designing and making jewelry has always been the core and working within the contemporary and conceptual field is where she feels comfortable.
For her the experience of art is very much a matter of feeling and understanding in your own personal and private way. Verhoef thinks of creating art as the greatest personal and private act. As is wearing jewelry.
