April 2025, Part 1
These days, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves 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: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Steven KP
Retail price: US$1,850
Soft movements, gentle gestures, following line and leaning into the curves. Quiet and gentle, this work can be such a balm for this moment. Incredible carved wood pieces by Steven KP.
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: Márcia Cirne
Retail price: €320, plus shipping
“I nurture and always keep close to my eyes and hands an endless collection in my studio,” states Márcia Cirne. “Things with some meaning that catch my eye, activate my memory, echo in me in some way, even if with uncertainty. Artifacts from Brazilian native nations, tools that were once useful, fragments of important pieces of something that can no longer be named, objects that friends give me, that might interest me. I spend my time with this collection, which is always on display in the studio, and, in a game in which one thing pulls another, I create connections between parts, mix senses, and create pieces for the body—jewelry.”
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: Beppe Kessler
Retail price: €2,800
Beppe Kessler’s new collection, unveiled at Munich Jewellery Week, forges a unique connection between her paintings and brooches for the first time. Known for creating jewelry and art separately, Kessler now merges the two, playing with vibrant colors and illusory three-dimensional effects that captivate and resonate deeply. Each brooch is hand-painted by the artist, transforming it into a miniature, wearable painting. These one-of-a-kind pieces invite collectors to experience the fusion of fine art and jewelry in a bold, innovative way—perfect for those who appreciate artistry that transcends boundaries.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Christel van der Laan
Retail price: AUS$1,880
Christel van der Laan is one of the five established makers from Perth that will be exhibiting at Zu design’s Syncopation exhibition, which opens May 3, 2025. Holy Smoke is a brooch that showcases van der Laan’s love of a ceramic honeycomb material typically used by jewelers as a platform when soldering pieces together. She carves it to create beautifully textured components. Highlighting the beauty in materials often discarded or overlooked, she encourages us to appreciate the possibilities and to look more closely at the details in her creations.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Geraldine Fenn
Retail price: US$1,100
South African artist Geraldine Fenn has recently gained attention for re-evaluating colonial portraits. She is the winner of the AJF Solo Exhibition Award. In a humorous way, she plays with the images and creates contemporary commentary on history. This anarchist brooch has been shown in the exhibition Pink & Punk, at Platina (2025), as well as in Munich during Schmuck.
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail price: US$1,555
Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition. Jewelry is both creative output and a point of reference and inspiration, with Lin frequently making work as a result of a self-reference to jewelry. Lin quotes her underlying “love-hate” relationship with jewelry as a healthy way to understand and explore a vast and diverse subject that loyally sticks close to its archetypal roots but also has the impressive ability to morph and move with the times.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Timo Krapf
Retail price: US$10,835
This piece is versatile, both a pendant and a brooch. Timo Krapf was recently featured on the cover of Ornament, with a 10-page article about his work included in the magazine as well.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Anna Krol
Retail price: US$395
A modern pair of earrings by Polish artist Anna Krol. With bold shapes and clean lines, this sterling silver and gold vermeil pair will wow with any ensemble! Krol’s elegant and sculptural designs make her pieces an effortless addition to any jewelry collection.
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: Molly Shulman
Retail price: US$1,640
This is the first finished piece from Molly Shulman’s iykykBravo line. These pieces take quotes and images from emotionally intense moments in BravoTV’s show Vanderpump Rules. Shulman is a jewelry artist blending contemporary and fine jewelry styles. In 2017, she began teaching at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, where she also leads youth programs. Shulman’s work ranges from fun designs to meaningful custom pieces, which often incorporate vintage materials. She lives in Baltimore with her partner and pets, where she continues to teach and create.
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: Staffan Jonsson
Retail price: €700
Staffan Jonsson’s summer job as a cemetery gardener became a starting point for this project that deals with the moments between life and death. The works have associations to childlike toys, naiveté, darkness, and sometimes violence. This piece is built up from sheets and rods of sterling silver, cut, filed, and soldered. The dark surface is niello, a metal alloy of silver, copper, lead, and sulfur that gives a strong cover and an expression that fits perfectly with the motif.
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: Tanel Veenre
Retail price: €2,960
The Garden VIII is part of Tanel Veenre’s collection called The Garden of Earthly and Heavenly Delights. It draws inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. This collection explores themes of human ecstasy, sensuality, and the intersection of the spiritual and physical realms. Veenre’s work is characterized by a constant search, with great creative capacity and prolific productivity. He captures everything that can be molded and turns it into a jewel.
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