February 2025, Part 1
More than ever, we all could use a treat! What an uplifting feeling to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for yourself while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them!
Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’re bound to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Inês Nunes
Retail price: €947
This piece, created by Portuguese artist Inês Nunes to celebrate Reverso’s 25th anniversary, embodies a journey—one that is at times arduous but always renewed. To symbolize this process, Nunes chose an unexpected and unrecognizable material: the sole of a shoe. The color and the surface treatment result in a striking, surprising ending.
Gallery: Salotto SPJ, Milan, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Josefine Spjeldnaes (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Giovanni Corvaja
Retail price: €35,000, plus VAT
This teardrop pendant is a masterful display of technical precision, showcasing renowned goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja’s superior craftsmanship. A delicate cloud of ultra-fine platinum filaments, each only 0.001 inches (0.035 mm) in diameter, suspends hundreds of vibrant drops of vitreous white enamel encased within a meticulously constructed gold cage. The ethereal composition of the filaments, woven with such extraordinary finesse, pushes the boundaries of traditional goldsmithing. Corvaja is widely celebrated for his innovative work with gold, and his pieces are represented in the most prestigious museums and collections globally.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Catarina Silva
Retail price: €1,800, plus shipping
Catarina Silva presents a new romantic body of work with intricate beading, weaving, and hand-painted flowers inspired by Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium poetry:
A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer’s morn—
A flask of Dew—A Bee or two—
A Breeze—a caper in the trees—
And I’m a Rose!
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Felieke van der Leest
Retail price: US$2,700
The title of this humorous pair of ear clips is Don & Bob Digger. They are made of plastic toy dogs and gold. During her career, Felieke van der Leest has developed a personal style involving issues such as the environment, animal care, and social behavior, always with a funny but serious twist. She is a jewelry artist from the Netherlands, based in Norway since 2008. In 1996, she graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie Jewellery Design, in Amsterdam. Her work can be found in many private and public collections around the world.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sandra Enterline
Retail price: US$4,950
The movement, paired with the industrial design, of the Barrel Fringe Earrings makes them simultaneously elegant and edgy. These fabulous earrings are striking because of their contrast of color, in oxidized silver and gold. Sandra Enterline’s workmanship and sense of proportion shines through in this pair of unusual earrings.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Emiko Oye
Retail price: US$595
Made by California-based artist Emiko Oye, this standout piece is a fantastic addition to any art jewelry lover’s collection. Centered around a beaming blue eye and bursting with every color of the rainbow, this piece can be worn as a pendant necklace or as a brooch.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Elliot Keeley
Retail price: US$400
The works in this series are crafted entirely from 100% recycled silver, designed to be easily recycled again. The goal is to give precious materials a new life, free from constraints that hinder transformation. Jewelry evolves with us, and this series minimizes environmental impact by rejecting newly mined materials. Overproduction and extractive industries perpetuate harm, while climate change disproportionately affects low-income communities and developing countries. By embracing recycled silver and fostering sustainable practices, this work underscores the urgent need for responsible consumption and a shift toward environmentally conscious production in the jewelry industry.
![Lisa Walker, Gold Coin, 2024, necklace, thread, 8 ¼ x 19 ⅝ (including cord) x ¼ inches (210 x 500 [including cord] x 5 mm), photo: Michael Couper](https://artjewelryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lisa-Walker-800x600-1.jpg)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Lisa Walker
Retail price: NZ$6,335
Lisa Walker uses a vast range of materials and construction methods. She creates objects that consciously simmer with influences from all aspects of culture and life. The pieces are often laced with references to contemporary jewelry of the past 40 years, as she questions and researches what jewelry means and what it could be. Walker largely positions her work around the history, the future, and the boundaries of jewelry. She hand-embroidered this piece to celebrate Fingers Gallery’s golden (50th) anniversary. Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s most influential contemporary jewelers, Walker has received numerous local and international awards.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sofia Bankeström
Retail price: €280
Wood is a material that is both dead and alive at the same time. Even though the tree has stopped growing, it continues to change through Sofia Bankeström’s processing, and is affected by conditions such as humidity and light. The dynamics of the material reflect the constant transformation in nature and in our own lives.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail price: AUS$5,315
Jane Bowden is one of the contemporary jewelers in Radical Textiles, currently at the Art Gallery of South Australia through March 30, 2025. This exhibition showcases textiles in its many forms. Some artworks are radical in their subject matter, others challenge what we consider textiles. Bowden has been using textile techniques, and specifically weaving, to inform her jewelry since the beginning of her career. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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