Olga van Doorn is a Amsterdam based jewelry artist trained at Vakschool Edelsmeden Amsterdam and at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. Olga has exhibited in Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Munich, Florence, Cambridge USA and New York City and was featured by Vogue Italia as promising jewelry designer. She was one of the award-winning artists at Artistar Jewels during Milano Jewelry Week and at the Florence Biennale Art and design.
Working as a jewelry artist and a medical doctor Olga is confronted with life being determined by both strength and vulnerability. Her fascination for this symbiosis leads to jewelry that is characterized by fragile looking but strong organic forms and delicate beauty. Olga is convinced that beauty, in the fullest sense of the term, is a necessity, comforting and essential, which gets particularly clear when confronted with illness, pain or loss. Her work is both minimalist and curious, handmade with natural materials and precious metals, every piece a one of a kind. Olga develops her own techniques in order to strive for the cleanest configurations possible, delicately moving along the fluid process that embraces the power of so-called imperfection and vulnerability.