Violeta Izquierdo is a Halifax based jewellery designer and maker. She has graduated from NSCAD University, majoring in Jewellery and Metalsmith. Her work is a reflection of the diverse cultural elements of her birthplace of Colombia and of where she currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. Violeta combines traditional metalsmith and digital techniques and is fascinated with balancing
Read MoreI create collections that bring together old techniques and modern technology. In my jewelry design I seek out the almost imperceptible details that surround us: line, color, form, and light in the subtle geometries of our everyday life. My designs combine the ultra modern and streamlined shapes with a finely delicate yet so powerful feminine aesthetic.
Read MoreEvery piece of Ioana Enache Jewelry is designed by the artist herself. She creates unique custom and limited series of jewelry meant to bring beauty, joy and delight to your senses. From the vision of the first line to the finishing process, each piece is crafted by the artist and close partners. All the jewelry pieces are handcrafted in precious metals with natural precious and semiprecious stones, as well as cultured pearls.
Read MoreI am Valentina Cziko and I love creating jewelry combining metales, precious stones and more. The result of my craft, inspired by the present experiences that mark our existence, becomes mobile and versatile objects of art.
Read MoreFLO Design Co. is a small one woman studio in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Designer, Sue Muir, created simple, organically shaped jewellery. She draws inspiration from the Pacific Ocean, a short distance from her home studio. Her process is unstructured. A mix of raw materials are enlisted to guide the final design outcomes. Sue calls this “following the flo”.
Read MoreImogen Cheng’s Let the Past Stay in Our Future uses contemporary narrative jewellery as a carrier and medium to explore the relationship between objects and human beings. The work asks us to reflect on our connection to the personal objects we embed with memories and stories.
Read MoreLi Jingzhuo is a very young artist (student level). She has an academic background in industrial design and jewellery design. She also manages the affairs of Non-Existent Products Ltd (see the company's homepage at www.lijingzhuo.com). She is a professional designer of impractical products and a high-end daydreamer. Her unrealistic products have deep meanings underneath.
Read MoreCho Ying NG is a young contemporary jewellery artist from China. For her, jewellery is a language of expression, which she uses to explore her observations of the world. She specialises in creating art with different materials to generate ideas and feelings, building her work into new narrative imagery and continuing to pursue the relationship between man and nature.
Read MoreHui Hu is a jewelry artist based in China and UK. Graduated with a BFA degree majoring in Ceramics from Tsinghua University and currently in her final year of postgraduate studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Because of experience of learning ceramic making during undergraduate, she learns a lot of handicraft skills and interested in trying to create the project by combining different materials with metal.
Read MoreCheuk Man Au is a young contemporary jewellery artist and designer. Her work is concerned with human emotions or behavior. She aims to capture the subtle emotions of life through an exploration of the relationship between human nature and the outside world, and try to visualize the emotion through the context of contemporary jewellery.
Read MoreYuka Jourdain is Japanese jeweller based in the U.K. who appreciates and supports the diversity of nature and human culture. Her pieces arrive through an enjoyment of both traditional jewellery techniques and the exploration of new materials. Yuka believes that material handling and being observant of forms that emerge through experimental making are important as she strives to
Read MoreArno Chen is Chinese jewellery designer with a fashion design background and enjoys combining these two disciplines together as she explores her future creativity. Her works are focusing on expression of emotion by an interactable wearing method. Fabric is one of her favorite materials, she loves using stitching skills, also dyeing and weaving technology in her projects. Arno would like to use the
Read MoreNora studied contemporary jewellery design at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town. After graduating with her Masters in Visual Arts, Nora set up her own studio. In 2016 she moved her atelier to Berlin, where she lived for four years, exhibiting both in Germany and internationally on a regular basis. Recently, Nora relocated to the picturesque town of Bamberg.
Read MoreMi-Sook Hur is an award-winning enamelist and metalsmith who is a professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University. Her work focuses on the realistic images inspired by nature and she explores the modern studies of Limoges enamels. She received a BFA in Metalwork and Jewelry from Seoul National University in Korea and an MFA in Metals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hur has exhibited
Read MoreBarbara was raised in Chicago, Illinois and studied the art form of jewelry and metalsmithing as an undergraduate student. The addition and love for enameling in combination with metalworking and jewelry making began during graduate school, with continued exploration during the following ten years of university teaching. Barbara left university teaching with the desire to
Read MoreIngrid Adriaenssens (1956) has always been involved in various disciplines of art and craftsmanship. She studied silversmithing at the Academie of fine arts of Antwerp Belgium (1980). She soon established herself as an independent jewelery designer in Ghent. Because of her passion for color she followed enamelling in “Art et Metier” Brussels (2012). A quest that never ends. She has her own gallery - workplace in Ghent - Belgium.
Read MoreNicole Jacquard is currently a Professor and Area Coordinator of the Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Program at Indiana University. She received her BA from Indiana University in 1991 and her first MFA in 1994 from The University of Michigan. While on a Fulbright Fellowship in Australia she received her second MFA from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 1995. In 2001 she returned to
Read MoreSharon Massey is metalsmith, jeweler and enamelist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her jewelry has been exhibited in Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Canada and Australia, as well as across the United States. She has served on the board of directors of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and currently serves on the board of trustees of The Enamelist Society.
Read MoreCurrently studying for an MA in Design for Body and Environment, at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland. I am also Jeweller with an Honours Degree in Craft Design & Metalwork from NCAD and a Postgraduate of Creative Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. My work has been purchased by the National Museum of Ireland Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland.
Read MoreAnnika Ingelaere (1971) has been fascinated since childhood by Applied Arts and in particular jewellery. First she studies graphic and advertising design at Sint-Lucas Ghent (1994), later Jewellery Design at the Academy of Sint-Niklass (2000). By continuing to train herself, her work is constantly evolving. She loves creating but also passing on her knowledge. That is why she regularly exhibits her work and organizes
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