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Short biography, 25 words
Jan Katewicz hand cuts wood veneers into contemporary marquetry artworks whose patterns recall mandalas, fractals and muqarnas, keeping an endangered craft alive in his Sheffield studio.
Biography, 50 words
Jan Katewicz makes contemporary marquetry artworks at Elementa Laudis, his studio in Sheffield, cutting and assembling each piece by hand from wood veneer that he dyes himself. His patterns draw on mandalas, fractals and muqarnas. Marquetry is listed as an endangered craft, and Jan's work has joined private collections across five countries.
Key facts
- Born in Warsaw in 1987, lives and works in Sheffield.
- Has worked as a financial adviser for fourteen years and still does. A cycling accident and six months of recovery led him to wood veneer, and he now runs both.
- Marquetry is on the Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts.
- Works are unusually large for the craft, up to 172.5 cm tall, where historical marquetry was made at the scale of furniture.
- Over forty works sold since early 2025, into private collections in five countries, with repeat collectors.
- Selected for the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester, October 2026.
- First solo exhibition, Innerysm, at the opening of the studio in August 2024. Group show at The Holy Art Gallery, London, November 2024.
- The studio has its own TripAdvisor listing and opens to the public for Open Up Sheffield.
Images
High resolution photographs of any work on this site are available on request, usually the same day. Please credit the artwork title, the year and the photograph to Jan Katewicz. The images on this site may be used for editorial coverage of my work without asking first.
Contact
Jan Katewicz
Elementa Laudis
Unit 16, Gordon Works Complex, Valley Rd, Sheffield, S8 9FT
elementa.laudis@gmail.com