He, who catches the light
Jewellery for sunny moments

At one of the sunniest places in Germany Nils Peters creates his pieces of jewellerys. The „Sun Jewellery“ of the island Ruegen is developed in the studio under the glass dome of the pinpointing tower on Cape Arkona.

„There are surely only few locations, where jewellery develops by daylight. But in the studio of the Pinpointing Tower we can handle the jewellery in natural light“, says Nils Peters. „When light falls into the stone, it begins to live. Through the treatment of the stone many colours, sparkling and brilliance develops“, he enthusiasts. No wonder, the sun is the godparent for his jewellery: „Sun Jewellery“ he calls his creations.

The most beautiful workplace in the north
The native Duesseldorf, born 68, is diploma jewellery and gemstone designer, he studied in Idar-Oberstein. His talent relating to the crafts he learned from his father, who is goldsmith. Before Nils Peters came 2004 onto the island Ruegen, he worked on several locations in the world. When he has been in Hamburg 2004, to travel from there to India, friends meant, that he should go and visit the island Ruegen. The look onto the map alone made him curious: „North Cape“, as he says, with lighthouses. While visiting Ruegen, he formed the idea to work here with amber. He developed an amber concept, suitable for the island Rügen, and convinced thereby the mayor of the municipality Putgarten, to where the pinpointing tower belongs to. Ernst Heinemann offered him to use the pinpointing tower as a studio. 

Storm tested and sunny
The Cape Arkona is the northern point of the Baltic Sea island Ruegen. At the about 45 m high cliffs, usually a strong wind blows, the sun shows itself very often. For the most Ruegen holiday-makers the Cape Arkona belongs to the most beautiful trip aims of the island. Especially is here the three towers: the small brick lighthouse was build by the plans of Schinkel, the big lighthouse and the pinpointing tower, which was build next to the barrier of a slavish castle. And of course the fascinating cliff, that brings some beautiful vacation memory to the light: Amber, shells, fossilized sea-hedgehog and chicken gods. Chicken gods are Firestone's with a hole, they are supposed to prevent evil considering to a slavish belief. Amber is very popular by the Rueganern, how the natives call themselves. Mostly in autumn and in winter, after a strong storm, they search on the beaches for the orange coloured, yellow, sometimes also red stone, that developed millions of years ago out of the pine resin and other coniferous trees. Actually the amber is no stone or mineral, because of its development, but has got a long tradition as a jewellery. 

On the trace of the stones
Nils Peters also feels the fascination for these special jewellery and heal stones. „Amber is a light bringer. When you find it on the beach, you feel at once happiness“, he says. The jewellery designer would like to set something against the dusty cliche of the amber. He adjusts amber very imaginative into his jewellery collection: sometimes as a single stone with an insect in it or in combination with fossils or gemstones. His jewellery shows the attentiveness and the respect for the nature. „Stones have got a different gift to communicate than plants, animals or humans“, he says. „In my meetings with old cultures and primitive peoples I learned, that stones are often treated there as organism. If I am in silence, the stone communicates with me, mostly that happens through feeling or visual experiencing and I hear „Make something of me!“. Nils Peters says:“I make stones usable for humans.“ He doesn't only use amber. In his jewellery of gold or silver for example he also uses brilliants in highest quality („TWIF“), ruby, agate, sapphire and lapis-lazuli. From every where he collects stones and uses them in single or in creative combination to artful jewellery. Their poetic names he graves in. 

Inspiration from nature
From spring till autumn he works in the sun flooded studio under the glass dome. Three or four trainees helping him. Visitors can see there his permanent exhibition. In november traditionally an annual exhibition is shown in Wiesbaden. In winter Nils Peters travels around, mostly visiting primitive peoples. „In winter I am mostly over sea, take my tools with me and work together with other locally artists, to learn more about stones“, he says. So 2010 he had been to the Easter Islands. Inspired by the imprint and a contact to a world wide opal dealer the annual exhibition „Opal dream journey Rapa Nui“ was born, which was shown in Wiesbaden and at Cape Arkona.

Heike Sievers, Genießen & mehr, Sommer 2011

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Jewellery Dream Journey Four Seasons

The Cape Arkona on the island Ruegen is since immemorial times a place that magically attracts people. Already the slavs constructed a cult site here in the 6th century. Remains of the former hill fort can still be seen.

The location is of great importance for international shipping, too. Under excellent weather conditions it is within sight of the Danish island Møn.
Therefore the pinpointing tower, next to two lighthouses, has been erected here. It was sanified after the fall of the Berlin Wall and since the year 2004 shelters in addition to art exhibitions also the studio of the jewellery designer Nils Peters. Since then the attraction of this place further increased for the visitors of the island. So this year the pinpointing tower is going to come up for the first time exclusively with precious stones and unique jewellery.

This summer, exclusive jewellery events will be celebrating their premiere. The Pinpointing Tower now opens its doors for these special highlights in the evenings and thereby offers guests the opportunity to enjoy the evening atmosphere at the Cape from a bird´s-eye perspective for the first time: the sunset underneath the glass dome, the lights of the lighthouses of Cape Arkona as well as the island of Hiddensee, and the light traces of the ships travelling between Scandinavia, the Baltics and the German shores of the Baltic Sea. The events offer even more unusual insights as gemstone experts will hold admission-free lectures on their particular expert areas from 9 - 11 pm.

- The series of lectures starts on 29 June, when host Nils Peters demonstrates the creation of his jewellery collection with nature´s treasures such as amber and fossils.

- From 16 – 18 August, Jürgen Schütz, CEO of the world´s largest opal suppliers will be present as a guest speaker. Since the company has its own opal mines in Australia and Jürgen Schütz visits them regularly, he will surely have a lot of stories to tell from the world of diggers, boulders and miners. The insights into the fascinating variety of colours of these gemstones will just be as colourful as his stories.

- From 24 – 26 August, Michael Steinbach will share his knowledge of rare star rubies and star sapphires as well as that of their areas of origin which are in Asia and India. The presentation of high-carat specimens of the unique stones will be part of his presentation.

- When Robert Wobito offers a journey into the world of the „Queen of Stones“ from 13 – 15 September, there will be a „sparkling competition“ between selected diamonds and the stars at night. The expert from Idar-Oberstein is one of the world´s leading diamond traders in third generation.

- From 11 – 13 October, at the end of this series, Nils Peter once again offers to look behind the scenes of the „Sun Jewellery“ Studio.

Furthermore, the Pinpointing Tower will also be open between 11 pm - midnight after the theatre performances, which are part of the cultural events this summer at Cape Arkona. An additional opportunity to experience the exhibition and to go on a journey travelling through the four seasons of the year. Each season is represented by gems and minerals which reflect the nature of the respective season.

The spring is dominated by green tourmalines and agates, jade and emeralds. The summer presents itself with the fire of opals and amber, of which particular pieces with insect inclusions are chosen. The autumn will be represented by jasper, agates, rubies, as well as petrified fossils, which are rinsed by autumn storms at the beaches of the island. The floor that is dedicated to the winter finally shines in the coruscation of diamonds, quartz, blue sapphire and pearls.

From this diversity of exquisite gemstones from market-leading companies jewellery lovers can choose their stone. Through personal consultation in the studio a concept of an individual piece of jewellery is developed. At the end of the journey the visitor comes to the Sonnenschmuck studio, which is in the light-flooded glass dome of the pinpointing tower.
Here the visitor may look over the artist´s shoulder while he is working.
The unique sight of the northcape of Germany, the island Hiddensee and the largeness of the Baltic Sea invite for a longer stay. Those who have found the way to this place are often inspired to come again and again.

Hendrik Jung, Taunusstein

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Opal dream journey Rapa Nui

No less than two myths of the history of humanity coin the annual exhibition 2010 of the jewellery designer Nils Peters.
On the one hand a cooperation with the largest opal merchant of the world enables the award-winning designer once more to work with unique stones. The great band width of places of discovery of the company Weis in Australia, Brasil and Mexico has thereby led to an assortment of inimitable variety.

On the other hand an educational journey to the Easter Island has inspired the artist to new forms.
Although the opals and the between Chile and Tahiti located Easter Island have no geographical linkage. Nevertheless the so called stone of the gods offers the ideal condition to produce an idea of Rapa Nui. Because in the selection of the stones a multiplicity of extensive blue and green oscillations are included. The exact colours which display the ambience of the island: The blue of the sky and the sea as well as the green of the spacious grassland.

On the contrary the black obsidian is the formative rock of the island. In association with the amber of the Baltic Sea, by whose shores the atelier of Nils Peters is located, the triumvirate of the Opal dream journey Rapa Nui is created that way: Opal, obsidian and amber. Added to that further highlights like the dazzling mother of pearl of the Tahiti clam.

Certainly the worldwide known symbol of the Easter Island, the Moai statue, is found as a gem at the exhibition. While the corpus was manufactured of the local obsidian, the head is made of clear diaphanous amber, which impressively shows the advantages of the distinctive features. Not as well known but not less formidable is the hieroglyphic writing of the island, which is called Rongorongo. Although there is no one who could unriddle their meaning, its shape on the other hand speaks often for itself. For example the symbol of the „Birdman“, who in ancient times was thereby determined, that he salvaged the egg of the first sea swallow. Like a stone drawing the artist has scribed him in the obsidian or adorned opal and amber with it. Fishes or the eyes of the god Make-Make enter the collection in that way, too. Another stone, furnished with a sun in the center with dancing humans around, symbolizes another ritual from Rapa Nui. So myth falls within myth in an exhibition which oscillates in all colours of the rainbow by the unique variety of the opals. Who likes to, becomes, as a part of the exhibition, the opportunity to choose a rough stone and look over a shoulder of a opal grinder during the processing.

Hendrik Jung, Taunusstein

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Best of Jewellery Dream Journey

For the tenth time the annual exhibition entitled Jewellery Journey of jewellery designer Nils Peters takes place.

The journey has already lead the artist to so many places: Geographically to New Zeeland, Canada and Ruegen, thematically to the Indian medicine wheel and into the depth of outer space.

It is time to take a look back, but also to look forward, for the arriving year will be completely under the sign of the opals. And because great events are often foreshadowed, one can already enjoy works with the stone of the gods at the actual exhibition.

This time the artist offers unusual insights - by leaving some stones untreated to a large extent. These works present the natural charme and the archaic rawness of the mineral. Whether it is the irregular surface of the fire opal - which evoke remembrances of flickering flames - or the crystalline cascades of the tourmaline.

Furthermore Nils Peters opened himself to a new subject: jewellery sets for gentlemen.
The nicely to each other attuned lines of tie pins, studs and rings should finally serve the numerous male fans of the jewellery designer.

Added are new works among the successful series of the past jewellery dream journeys like the mandalas, the guardian angels and the finds from the beaches of the isle of Ruegen.

As same as last year friends of amber will not suffer from scarcity and can look forward to inimitable inclusions as well as exclusive compositions between meteors and amber.
The exhibition Best of Jewellery Dream Journey is shown on Saturday 7 November from 12 am – 20 pm as well as on Sunday 8 November from 10 am – 20 pm in the salon Ferdinand Hey´l at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden. The entrance is free.

Hendrik Jung, Taunusstein

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Gemstones - sunny life companions

Jewellery designer Nils Peters works in the glass dome of the beacon at the Cape Arkona

While other island inhabitants hole up behind the oven in winter, Nils Peters takes jouneys. It might be the longing for the sun which guides him in his journey planning – after all he calls his creations "Sun Jewellery".

In the past winter he travelled around the world again searching for exceptional gemstones for his work. Besides the cooperation with well-known gemstone dealers in Idar-Oberstein Nils Peters often visits the find spots of the gemstones and chooses from there directly. Form New Zealand he brought green jade, opals from Australia and Mexiko, rubies and moonstones from Sri Lanka.

Since many years the jewellery and gemstone designer is active as an independent artist and his work was awarded with significant prizes. Since 2003 he works every summer in the most beautiful studio that he is able to imagine – beneath the glass dome of the beacon at the Cape Arkona. At the bluff of the Baltic Sea and directly next to the former temple castle of Svantevit, this lucid place is nurtured by light and history.

"My materials are presents from nature to me" Nils Peters says, "from nature I draw my inspiration and the uniqueness of special stones touches me with its mysterious energy in a special way."

Since he works in Cape Arkona many months a year he intensely occupies himself with amber - the "gold of the seas" - and the possibilities to process it with gemstones from all over the world. His jewellery is not only beautiful but effuses lust for life and is an energy source for everday life.

Visitors of the studio can observe the jewellery designer and his two interns while working. An exclusive exhibition additionally presents the most beautiful pieces from Nils Peters’ variation-rich collection.

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40 Years and Couple of Carat

40 years Nils Peters, that is more than 15 years of jewellery design. From the International Colored Diamond Award to Germany’s most beautiful studio at the Cape Arkona on Ruegen. Always fascinated by Creation which is a constant source of inspiration for Nils Peters . For his personal anniversary exhibition the artist has selected 40 highlights of his works around which he presents his current collection.

Naturally also works are included which have become evergreens, like the Mandala-series or the series of guardian angels. Since his move into the studio in the lighthouse five years ago the sea dominates the works of Nils Peters. This reflects in the 40 highlights, too: from amber inclusions over flint stones to seaglass many former sea inhabitants can be found in them.

The more so as flint stones play a central role in the current works of Nils Peters. Through nature letters, numbers or even whales have emerged in their texture which the artist now takes advantage of.

In addition to this there is a freshly designed series of opal jewellery and works with rough crystals. Besides nature it is the great spiritual leaders which serve as a source of inspiration for the artist. Therefore a quote of one of these sages will be assigned to each of the 40 highlights.

This by now eleventh annual exhibition in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden is again mainly supposed to be an inspiration for the visitors. It is open on the 13th of December from 12 a.m. to 8 p.m. as well as on the 14th of December from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Hendrik Jung, Taunusstein

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Jewellery Dream Journey Galaxy 2007
International Exhibition

It is not far from Sun Jewellery to Star Jewellery: Strictly speaking the title of the new collection of Nils Peters does not promise anything new. The so far superordinate eponym for his works, the sun, is nothing other than a star. However the concept of Star Jewellery is a whole new subject in the work of the jewellery designer.

It was in the National History Museum Vienna when the artist was abruptly kissed by the muse. He was in the rooms in which the meteorites of the collection are presented. Some so large that they could be used as seating-accommodation. The deep black tektites on one side, the silver-grey iron meteorites on the other and finally the bottle-green moldavites which came to existence upon impact of large rocks from the universe. These should be wonderfully combinable with amber, the gold of the seas, which dominates the works of Nils Peters since the establishment of the studio in the pinpointing tower at the Cape Arkona in Ruegen. Combined with rough diamonds, diamonds, yellow gold and silver the jewellery designer has now united the oppositional materials. The light amber which is owed to the trees and the sea and the heavy stones formed by entry into the atmosphere and the impact on earth communicate an insight into the dimensions of time and space. They remind of the sparkling light of stars on the nightly sky and the fervent warmth of our house planet, the sun. And they combine their carrier with the history of earth as well as with the cosm. Within the exhibition in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden Nils Peters will this time offer the opportunity to gain insight into the creation of the Sun Jewellery. The scent of frankincense will waver through the Kurhaus. It originates when the heated iron meteorite encounters the amber. A fervent combination which lets the amber shine in totally new colours. The exhibition is visitable at two weekends in the Ferdinand Hey'l hall of the Kurhaus Wiesbaden: On the 17th and 18th November as well as the 1st and 2nd December. On saturdays it is opened from 12 am to 8 pm, on sundays from 10 am to 8 pm. The entry is free.The exhibition can also be seen in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Saarbrücken, Vienna and Cologne.

Hendrik Jung, Taunusstein

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About Nils Peters

The 43 year old Nils Peters was born in Düsseldorf, is graduated jewellery and gemstone designer and was awarded for his work with the International Colored Diamond Award in New York and the German Jewellery and Gemstone Award in Idar- Oberstein..

In his 17 year long independance the artist presented his unicums in extraordinary exhibitions. His creations can be seen in Germany amongst others once a year in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus. "Gods Spark", "Firework of the Senses" or "Jewellery Dream Journey" are the titles of his presentations which attract hundreds of visitors every year.
The exhibitons in themselves are complete artworks in which the visitors are adressed via the different sensual organs.

Nils Peters loves to go into the silence of nature. Out of there he draws energy, vision and inspiration for his works. On his numerous study trips and outdoor studio stays in England, Portugal, France, Nepal, Canada or New Zealand the traveller, who is often only equipped with backpack, tent and necessary tools is ecountered with unique materials.

The artist likes to combine them with precious metals and stones. Nils Peters assembles fossils and petrifications with shining aquamarines, diamonds, rubies, rock crystals and tourmalines into a contrastful act.
Already as a child he was fascinated of stones. Their beauty and uniqueness touched him with their mysterious energy in a special way. His parents, both artists, too, awoke the interest in him and taught him the possibilities of processing them.

Often the stones have led him to remote places of the world. Nils Peters feels especially connected to the primitive people and was often guest to learn about their culture, rites and customs. The spiritual experiences changed the subject of his works over the years.
In the forms and colour diversity of his poetic-acting creations Nils Peters wants to give happiness and joy to humans.

He sees his pieces of jewellery as carriers of a message. In each of his works he engraves one or mulitple words which can be a positive affirmation to the bearer on his path of life. Furthermore Nils Peters wants to raise attention with his works that us humans can contribute peacefully to our mother earth. "We all breathe the same air and are connected with everything."
Since 2003 Nils Peters works with amber, the gold of the sea. The petrified resin of primeval forests is partly over 50 million years old and is found along the Baltic Sea. For Nils Peters amber is a lightbringer.

His studio is in the glasdome of the pinpointing tower at the Cape Arkona on the island Ruegen. Within opening hours one may visit the artist at his working place and experience a spectacular view on the North Cape of Germany. A big part of his jewellery is displayed in the pinpointing tower.

Nils Peters