April 2026, Part 2
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: 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: 10,000€ (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.
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: Objects Beautiful, London, UK (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jessica Winchcombe
Retail price: £1,200
Jessica Winchcombe’s jolly, colorful, and elegant necklace is made with textile, taking strips of canvas, cut out from Winchcombe’s large original acrylic painting and folded, creating yet another expression, further ornamented with threads and pearls, arriving at a fantastically unique presence.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click for email)
Artist: Jacqueline Morren
Retail price: NZ$2,500
Jacqueline Morren was born in The Netherlands. After extensive travels, she arrived in New Zealand, where she became acquainted with the precious stone Pounamu. During her visit, she attended a night class in jade carving, and after returning to The Netherlands was overcome by a strong desire to work with this material again. She returned to New Zealand as an international student and earned a diploma in jade and hard stone carving. Morren wanted to incorporate metal into her craft. After searching for a silversmith to collaborate with and coming up short, she decided to develop her own metalsmithing skills to combine both materials. This set the foundation for her own ethically based jewelry practice. She continues to live and work in New Zealand.
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: 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€
At the core of this work lies the tarot, conceived as a dialogue between Major Arcana XIII and the proverbs of William Blake. The imagery draws on themes of transformation, rupture, and renewal, where death is not an end but a passage into another state. The spine is reimagined as the cut worm, a symbol of fragmentation and regeneration, while dual viewpoints, frontal and oblique, suggest multiple layers of perception. This cross-reading aligns symbolic systems from tarot and Blake’s poetic universe, bringing together mysticism, critique of authority, and a shared vision of cyclical change, inner struggle, and metamorphosis continuously.
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: Lin Cheung
Retail price: CAN$2,800
Lin Cheung explores the codified uses and meanings of jewelry and objects in her creative process. Her work is a personal response to her everyday experiences and observations. In this instance, she drew inspiration from the small plastic bag in which she stores a pendant when she is not wearing it. She has exquisitely sculpted it from pink opal, a delicate stone.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click for email)
Artist: Nicole Schuster
Retail price: US$1,795
These pointed earrings by Munich-based artist Nicole Schuster perfectly balance rigid geometry with organic shapes. “I utilize both deliberate formations and the inherent flow of nature to render symbiotic landscapes,” states the artist. “My pieces often feature organic elements sprouting from inanimate forms and constructions.” Schuster’s work beautifully captures both an edgy darkness and a feminine softness.
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: 2,900€
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. This pair consists of a delicate filigree design featuring ingenious double triangles with teardrop-shaped glass “stones.” Distinctively beautiful. On display in the exhibition Mirror Mirror…, at Galerie Door.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J Diamond (click for email)
Artist: Ashley Buchanan
Retail price: US$200
Ashley Buchanan is a full-time jewelry artist currently based in Atlanta, GA, US. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums such as the Racine Art Museum; the Museum of Arts and Design, in New York; and SOFA Chicago. Buchanan’s work has been published in two of the Showcase 500 Series books, Ornament magazine, and Metalsmith magazine, and she was featured in American Craft magazine as one of the short-listed artists for the Emerging Voices Award. She is a 2014 NICHE finalist and was also selected as one of the 10 finalists for the LEAP award at the Society for Contemporary Craft.
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: Gigi Mariani
Retail price: 4,600€
Gigi Mariani stands among the most internationally recognized figures in Italian contemporary jewelry, distinguished by a visual language that is immediately identifiable. His works carry a trademark tension between the primitive and the structured: a raw, almost archaic surface that envelops a rigorously defined and architectonic core. In Distanze, the textured, seemingly elemental exterior conceals and protects a precise internal structure, revealing the artist’s mastery of proportion and technical control. The work encapsulates Mariani’s signature aesthetic: a measured equilibrium between force and restraint, where raw and refined surfaces coexist in contrast and harmony. The result is a piece of striking presence, defined by structural clarity, high-quality realization, and a powerful, uncompromising beauty.
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: Ana Albuquerque
Retail price: 15,000€
I love photosynthesis, it is the outset of life, it transforms inorganic matter into organic, into life. It feels like the creation of the world, it reminds me of God bringing life into a bit of clay, giving it a soul and, as a bonus, oxygen. I have always surrendered myself to the trees and more recently, with urban pressure and intensive farming, I have even more compassion for these beings. I am actively involved in protecting the last forest near the coastal edge where I live. I have prevented my neighbor from cutting down his garden tree. I dry and sell tea leaves to raise funds that ease the costs of environmental defense actions. Small gestures that take hours. Birch trees have existed for 30,000,000 years. They populated all of Europe, they alter the soil for the benefit of other species and each one lives about 100 years, which allows the oaks to settle. Birch trees symbolize generosity. They emerge with the most strength from the ground, which is represented by their verticality, connecting the earth energy to the skies. Changing with the seasons, transforming our days and those of everyone they are symbiotic with.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click for email)
Artist: Ziqi Yuan
Retail price: US$320
Ziqi Yuan’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: 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.
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