I Want to Be Adorned

Swelle reader and jeweler Molly (you'll be introduced to her and her compelling work in a new designer series coming soon!) suggested we take a look at Sienna Gallery which represents artist jewelers. I'm grateful for the recommendation as I've had a peek and seen some incredible jewelery that transcends far beyond simply 'pretty', 'sparkling' or 'bold'. These are pieces of wearable, one-of-a-kind art that stretch the imagination about what jewelry can be, and demonstrate how metals, gems and other materials can be manipulated and arranged to create shapes, colours and textures in combinations we've never seen before - and will want to touch.

Molly mentioned Lola Brooks as a favourite so I went to her collection first and fell in love with her Confection brooch (above) of 18k gold, stainless steel and vintage ivory - it reminds me of an embellished birdcage veil. Her other work featured in the gallery is equally beautiful but aesthetically quite different - at first, then you see the pattern in her approach to shape, texture and composition:

                         Brilliant cut brooch                             Faceted brooch

Filigree Neckpiece

I went exploring through the other artists' work and found more pieces that I was just so excited about because they looked so fresh and brand-new to me, like the metalwork from Shihoko Amano whose twist technique produces an effect of some new kind of crochet:

Brooch. Steel and 18k gold

Earrings. 18k and 14k gold, silver


Brooch. 18k gold

 

There's so much more, which I'll show at another time - or you can go see for yourself!

Comments

[Molly Vogel`]

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Glad you liked it.

[Molly Vogel`]

OH! If you didn't see the link to her latest exhibition, it is the series that the first brooch you posted came from. You may just love the rest of it!

http://www.siennagallery.com/exhibitions_brooks.php

[Nicole]

Omg those are amazing peices! They seriously are peices of artwork! i love that last brooch! but i wonder if the brown stuff behind the gold wreath thing is part of it too?