August 2026, Part 2
Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels so good to get a wonderful piece of art jewelry for ourselves—all 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: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J Diamond (click the name for email)
Artist: Samira Saheli
Retail price: US$160
Samira Saheli is a contemporary jeweler based in San Diego, CA, US. Her work is sustainably handmade in her solar-powered studio. Using jewelry as a language, her work focuses on symbolism and its deep-rooted importance in our everyday lives. In the form of an amulet or talisman, her works exercise influence on feeling and emotion for the purpose of understanding her surroundings.
- Hansel Tai fabricates jewelry with a similar concept of piercing. Find an example here
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Lucie Popelka Houdkova
Retail price: US$350
For the Deep series, established artist Lucie Houdkova was influenced by the scientific illustrations of Ernst Heinrich, who in the 19th century turned the attention of Western civilization to the world of the magnificent and tiny creatures of the seabed. This series is made from paper lamellae and can be articulated to move with tides of expression by the wearer. Houdkova wants to create jewelry that is alive—thus the shapes resemble waves of coral polyps that change with the movement of imaginary underwater currents. The series received notes from the Alliages Choice Awards and a public award from Studio WearHouse during Munich Jewellery Week 2026.
- Seulgi Kwon also makes jewelry that looks like sea creatures. Find it here
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: Isabelle Azaïs
Retail price: £440 (without VAT)
Isabelle Azaïs elevates and so successfully ennobles recycled plastic waste through her art jewelry. An artistic process that culminates in a beautiful, fanciful and serious, optimistic, and critical body of work. Azaïs, a French lady who lives in Brussels, is a joyful activist—a wonderful combination of character that leads to her original and attractive very light brooches and earrings, that shine and project light, along a cheerful expression.
- Go here to learn about Debbie Adamson, another jewelry artist who recycles plastic waste, but with a completely different aesthetic
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Mari Ishikawa
Retail price: US$1,200
Mari Ishikawa envisions parallel worlds where created objects are perceived in different ways, momentarily interrupting the flow of transience. Born in Kyoto, Japan, the artist lives and works in Munich, Germany. Her choice of materials and techniques reflects the meeting of these two cultures. Since 2020, she has served as a visiting professor at Kobe Design University in Japan. Her work is featured in exhibitions and collections worldwide, and she has received several awards, including the Herbert Hofmann Prize in Munich.
- We interview Mari Ishikawa here
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metalworks, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail price: US$4,266
Each of these earrings was entirely carved from a single piece of moissanite, with an 18-karat yellow gold butterfly back to complete the piece. Artist Lin Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in goldsmithing, silversmithing, metalwork, and jewelry, and she is currently a reader in jewelry and final-year leader on the BA jewelry design course at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
- See other jewelry by Lin Cheung here
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click the name for email)
Artist: Carin Jones
Retail price: US$445
This bolo-style necklace by Carin Jones has a unique visual identity, with collaged vintage tin and etched acrylic as the centerpiece. The bold and bright one-of-a-kind piece, titled My Car Hasn’t Been Washed in a Decade, exudes character and style.
- Did you know about the 2024 exhibition Everybody’s Bolo? Find the essays from its catalog here
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Melane Baumgartner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: 1,000€
“No Platform” is a historic slogan associated with the boycott of the far right. It could also become a new slogan against what is known as “platform capitalism” (Shoshana Zuboff), in which we risk losing the last vestiges of our democratic rights.
- The artist Taweesak Molsawat is also interested in exploring jewelry as a way of communicating a political message. Find an interview with him here
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: Herman Hermsen
Retail price: 250€ (excluding VAT)
Herman Hermsen looks at the world in a special way. He sees stories, jokes, and possible innovations in all thinkable places. Through his work he reveals these discoveries—we get a glimpse of what happens behind his glasses. Welcome to a sexy, beautiful, and intelligent world filled with humor!
- Here is another work by Hermsen in a similar style
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Ann Culy
Retail price: NZ$2,000–$2,300
Ann Culy gained a diploma from Ilam School of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture (1973), and later coming to jewelry at Otago Polytech with a certificate in craft and design (1991). Culy’s signature style encompasses rich organic forms predominantly made from pure gold and silver. “I use ancient techniques in my making; they still hold fast. I mix and pour my own ingots. The rings have no solder, they are constructed simply by forging, fusing, filing, burnishing, and stamping. I like that they can easily be returned to the metal they came from with the melt of a flame… I want to make things that encompass a story, become one with the wearer. Intimate, yet clearly of the person.” These bracelets are designed to slide over the hand. One-off works that will invariably stand the test of time. Culy lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Find out what makes jewelry from New Zealand so distinctive here
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: 2,500€ plus shipping
Catarina Silva, restless and playful, takes this lineage into a dreamlike and surreal dimension. Her pieces often assemble unexpected materials into amulets that hover between the archaic and the contemporary. Love tokens, glass beads, and everyday symbols are recomposed into objects that recall the rhythms of ancient chants, the repetitions of spells, and the intimacy of secret offerings.
- The American artist Joyce J. Scott also uses bead weaving techniques. See photos of her work and listen to a conversation with her here
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Mia Chen (click the name for email)
Artist: Brienna Hall
Retail price: US$3,740
Brienna Hall works at the meeting point of metalsmithing and fiber. From her studio on the Mendocino Coast, she combines ancient techniques—sand casting, keum-boo, fusing—with hand-knitted chain, a method that gives metal the drape of cloth. In Halo Necklace, hand-cut and welded 14-karat double-clad gold-filled discs are suspended along a bed of knit sterling silver chain, their repetition creating a shifting field of reflected light—a subtle aura around the body. Circular form here reads as continuity and protection. Selected as juried work for Fiber Reimagined IV—now showing at Gravers Lane Gallery—the piece rewards close looking.
- Mary Lee Hu works with fiber techniques, too. Go here to find a review of the exhibition Knitted, Knotted, Twisted & Twined: The Jewelry of Mary Lee Hu. There, you’ll see images of works in the show and find a link to the accompanying monograph
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