April 2026, Part 1
Right now, when the world feels upside-down, we all could use a treat. It feels great to treat ourselves to a terrific piece of art jewelry 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: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Peter Bauhuis
Retail price: 2,750€
Rooted in ancient creation myths where humans and gods were shaped from clay, Pareidolia gently blurs the boundaries between the human, the divine, and the material world, transforming metal into something at once archaic and strikingly contemporary. With Pareidolia, Peter Bauhuis turns the simple act of looking into a moment of quiet wonder. Sometimes, as the artist says, just two marks are enough for a face to appear.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click for email)
Artist: Carina Shoshtary
Retail price: US$477
Carina Shoshtary’s earrings are included in the annual Earrings Galore juried exhibition, a rich and diverse array of earrings made by 60 emerging and established studio jewelers. The exhibition is intended to create more access for the public to engage with art jewelry, cultivate connections with the community, and provide opportunities for people to add to their jewelry collection.
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: Melanie Isverding
Retail price: 2,590€
“By treating stones as carriers of economic value, the process of selecting minerals for their application as gemstones becomes distinctly visible and open to questioning. This process follows strict criteria—purity, color, and density—that define what is considered valuable while excluding other forms of value. Confronting this system sharpens a central question: why were these parameters established, and what do they fail to consider? Society appears bound to material concepts shaped by history, culture, and consumption. The gemstone cut gives raw material a surface that renders it fascinating and precious. A previously overlooked stone suddenly gains attention and becomes a status symbol. Yet when it is crushed, its substance remains. Value shifts toward perception, intimacy, and a personal relationship with the material beyond outward appearance. Here, the discarded minerals are ground down and held, carried, and supported within a net or even a cage.” —Melanie Isverding
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Craig McIntosh
Retail price: CAN$1,395
When Craig McIntosh works with stone, he works in a certain way with the earth, or rather with place. Landscape is a human construction. It is our way of perceiving and interpreting the physical environment. Topography, in turn, is the method by which we analyze and map the contours of the terrain. The division and fragmentation of territory into a system of artificial spaces has shaped both the environment and the diverse identities of New Zealand. This body of work is a reflection on how landscape is framed and viewed, and on the subjective relationship to place.
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: Klara Brynge
Retail price: 1,200€
Klara Brynge makes drawings with smithing methods. It starts with the hammer and the blows. Then shapes grow as the plasticity of the material allows it to move. It is a flow of images and forms, similar to a movement through a landscape. A blank sheet of metal is empty of content, like a new piece of paper, but has its physical properties, thickness, weight, resistance, and transformability. A start of a new journey.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Daniel Kruger
Retail price: 2,000€
Daniel Kruger is a multidisciplinary artist. He grew up in South Africa, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and taught at the University of Art and Design at Burg Giebichenstein, in Halle, Germany. Kruger’s work really needs no explanation. His jewelry is powerful and sensual, and it captures the imagination. His art jewelry requires a wearer who is confident and self-assured. The bowl-shaped, reflective surface of this necklace catches the eye of everyone who passes by and turns their world upside down. Now on display in the exhibition Mirror Mirror…, at Galerie Door.
Gallery: Objects Beautiful, London, UK (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Hea Lim Shin
Retail price: £1,750
Last month AJF published the article Stitching Old to New: A Snapshot of the Interconnection between Contemporary Jewelry and Textiles, by Vicki Mason, and I find it timely. Moreover, she included a brooch I have at my gallery, which I suggest here in On Offer. I represent a few art jewelers who enjoy working with textiles, yet their narrative and engagement couldn’t be more different, which I find fascinating. Hea Lim Shin is from South Korea. She was shortlisted by Loewe for her most beautiful brooches, and for good reason. She has developed her own technique, taking her paintings with acrylic on linen, and then pressing them in circles, arriving enigmatically at a new painting, quite minimalist and abstract—”taking inspiration [from] the principles of the American Minimalist movement.” Its circular texture associates it with annual tree rings, and appropriately so as she refers to this series as Ornaments of Time. It’s a surprisingly thin brooch, held by a thin silver frame and pins at the back.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click for email)
Artist: David Holmes
Retail price: Each NZ$600
David Holmes was born in the South Island of New Zealand, where he started creating jewelry as a child. He studied at Dunedin School of Art, where he was awarded an Advanced Diploma in jewelry design. Holmes enjoys working with organic forms playing with light, color, humor, and movement. His works predominately use shell, pearls, stone, and silver, and are strongly influenced by Pacific jewelry and adornment. “I built a house and a small studio with a fantastic view of the Otago Peninsula, in Otepoti Dunedin, where I continue to make and follow my creative journey,” he says.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click for email)
Artist: Nikki Couppee
Retail price: US$2,250
A statement necklace by Bay Area artist Nikki Couppee that packs a punch! In a nod to kitsch, this opulent necklace is made with brass, acrylic, and faux pearls. Through the use of everyday materials, Couppee is “able to exaggerate the size and abundance of gemstones [to] parody or poke fun at the class issues inherent in fine jewelry.” The synthetic materials act as a counterfeit or stand-in for precious gemstones and solid gold.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J Diamond (click for email)
Artist: James Betts
Retail price: US$130
James Betts is an artist and designer currently living and working in Philadelphia. He holds an MFA in metals/jewelry/CAD/CAM from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His current body of work utilizes digital technology to both illustrate psychological and visual phenomenon.
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: 1,200€
CSS-STCS (2025) belongs to Transmutations, a 2025 series exploring gunpowder’s central role in capitalism and its colonial consequences, enabling invasion, extraction, and repression of resistance. Techniques derived from this history, including less-lethal methods, later returned to Europe to counter social movements. The brooches and rings are produced through explosive processes and named after sting grenade models. Deformed silver containers embody state violence, while gold pins establish an invisible bond between device and body, where gold acts as a structural condition rather than lending value. “Transmutation” here describes a concrete process transforming bodies and nature into wealth through chemical violence and transformation.
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Santa Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Team (click for email)
Artist: Erica Rosenfeld
Retail price: US$200
Erica Rosenfeld’s mismatched equine-theme earrings are hand-crafted in blown, hot-worked, and carved glass. One earring features a cameo of a horse, and the other a horseshoe, creating an unexpected pairing that feels playful and collectible. Based in New York, Rosenfeld is known for her distinctive glass jewelry and sculptural work.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Radka Passianova
Retail price: AUS$1,600
This work is shaped by both the material—discarded flip flops—and the places they were found. In many parts of the world, objects are repaired and reused; but in some parts, they are quickly discarded, often without consideration of the environmental impact. A reliance on convenience and excess has distanced us from more mindful ways of living. In this series, Radka Passianova reclaims and revalues these found thongs—collected from beaches across Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, and Australia—giving them new life. Their colors resurface, no longer hidden in sand, landfill, or the ocean.
Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Marion Vidal
Retail price: 3,200€ (plus VAT)
In Japan, bamboo is a sacred plant. Supple as the wind yet strong as metal, it embodies strength, youth, and longevity. During her artistic research residency at Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto, in 2025, designer Marion Vidal explored bamboo as a creative medium in its own right. She reveals its uniqueness, physical properties, and symbolic significance, while pushing the material toward sculptural expression. Précieux Bambou marks her first collaboration with the MiniMasterpiece gallery. Conceived as an archipelago of forms, the collection features eight types of jewelry, each autonomous yet intimately linked, interacting with one another like sculptural knucklebones.
By choosing bamboo, an unexpected material in the world of precious jewelry, Vidal invents a new language of forms. She works with its rapid growth, its link between earth and sky, its roughness and contrasts—knots, textures, light and dark, variations in scale—to find a balance between the organic freedom of the material and a precise, deliberately minimalist design. Once the bamboo has been sculpted with geometric rigor and naturalistic flair, Vidal creates interplay between flat and curved lines, punctuated with flashes of yellow gold. The gold acts as a breath, a discreet rhythm that reveals the poetry of the plant. Like the light that guides the bamboo in its growth, the gold lifts it from the earth and brings it to the body, transforming it into a vibrant and sensual jewel of desire.
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