/Jewellery Crush/ Maud Traon Cluster Ring

Inspiration: Wonderland, natural structures, miniature sculpture, exploration of colours, breaking traditional mold, found objects/treasures

Style: Unusual and innovative settings, floating stones, wearable art, vibrant and explosive colours

Ring: Tourmaline baguette set in gold plated and silver glitter/resin ring

www.maudtraon.com

/In His Words/ Karl Fritsch A Ring can be a Weapon

“What I find really fascinating, and one of the reasons why it’s so interesting to make jewellery, is the moment of recognition when something that comes across cute and pretty has on second glimpse an almost obscene grotesqueness.

“Of course the ring wants to be beautiful. The technique also wants to be beautiful, and most often it’s the idea that wants to be the most beautiful. But sometimes a ring likes nothing better than to sit in the mud and not give a damn about how it looks. If it’s exactly what it wants to be in a given moment, it is precise, perfect and the most beautiful”.

- Karl Fritsch

Rock It! Elizabeth Humble Fragile Landscape Ring

 Inspired by the incredible filmic scenery of the rugged landscape in the west coast of Scotland, Elizabeth Humble's Fragile Landscape ring features fragmented linear structures influenced by coastal erosion and natural rock formations hidden beneath the surface of the land, evoking the ever changing qualities of the natural landscape. The designer create intricate structures in precious metal to capture the natural elements by developing a unique technique of layering silver wires together, giving them a contemporary twist and resulting in a futuristic luxe aesthetics as well as a sophisticated edge. 

                                 www.elizabethhumble.com

Rock It! Aphra Ellen Block Ring

 Aphra Ellen's creative abilities in a variety of other mediums such as painting and sculpture enables ideas to spark that will ultimately be channelled through her contemporary jewellery designs. Inspired by organic forms and unique shapes, she is drawn by the unpredictability of nature as well as the fascination of macro-photography and observing objects on a cellular level. She finds irregularity and imperfection far more appealing and versatile, emphasising on the character and story of the piece as opposed to the conventional beauty of jewellery. By focusing on the concept of jewellery as wearable art, it allows her to broaden the playfulness and intrigue of jewellery design.

www.aphraellen.com

Tap | Todd Pownell

Todd Pownell use jewellery as a form of conceptual communication to express a thousand words that cannot be articulated verbally. By focusing on the meticulous attention to the craft, a dialogue is established between the designer and the wearer, forging a sense of intimacy and secrecy. The Tap collection evolves from an emotional experience to an aesthetic form, using the intrinsic properties of gems, metal and construction to create an exquisite collection that is raw, rugged as well as precised and sophisticated. For Pownell it is a vehicle for freely expressed desires and nomadic thoughts, focusing on the heavy influence of the romanticism period in the 18th century. 

I am awed by the designer's captivating method of embedding diamonds in reverse and the deliberate randomised scattering across designs in multiples or individually. With these inverted settings the diamonds captures the reflection of light in a succession of broad flashes from oblique angles, creating a feeling of serene twilight or in contrast, a gathering storm in the night's sky.

Pownell uses the contrast of light and dark metals in concoction with diamonds conjures a sense of unpredictability and mystery. I am fascinated by the way the inverted diamonds emerges from the metal as if naturally occurring.

If jewellery was an organic material in nature, then Todd Pownell's designs are exactly how I would imagine it would be.

www.tapbytoddpownell.com 

 

/Jewellery Crush/ Izabella Petrut Excess of Time Earrings

Inspiration: Here and now, life experience, storytelling, biography

Style: Minimalist, contemporary, wearable art

Earrings: Silver oxidised

www.izabellapetrut.com

Rock It! YunSang Jang I see a Halo Around You

 “Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”

-Virginia Woolf

 The theme of the profusely talented YunSang Jang's body of work is one of intrigue and utter amazement. She explores the concept of social alienation and false realities of our surroundings, and how it is comparable to floating in a spacesuit where we can all feel safe from the world we live in. YunSang imagines a room where we can breathe, communicate and live in, all in a small spatial environment. The I See A Halo Around You is a series of collection that explores the boundaries of space around the wearer's body, creating a bubble of security and protection for the wearer. YunSang is also interested in pushing the barriers of wearable art, how jewellery can be creatively worn in the most unusual of ways.

www.yunsunjang.com

Spatial Wonder: Osnat Har Noy Jewellery

 

'You can't criticise geometry, it's never wrong'

- Paul Rand (Pioneering Graphic Designer)

 The allure of mathematical perfection and exploration of confined space is curiously narrated through the means of wearable art. Award winning Jewellery Designer Osnat Har Noy's marvellously minimalist geometric collection harbours evoking curiosity of the modern environment.

Urban architecture provides the source of inspiration and knowledge. Captivated by large scale designs at its barest form before completion, its simple structure leaving just the lines, space, angles and shadows forms the core of her creations. She also explores the concept of confined space, both public and personal, allowing keen observer to argue whether the representation of space applies, or actual confinement due to the lines surrounding that inner space, creating a false sense of illusion.

My particular favourite has to be the large black geometric ring covered in black powder coating with a brass base beneath. Its formidable size is rather bold yet minimalist at the same time, cleverly achieved by the spaciousness within the area. The geometric rings were designed in a way to create an illusion of them floating above the finger. It is fun, experimental and conceptual.

That's the beauty of geometry. 

Visit www.osnatharnoy.com 

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