January 2026, Part 1
With the start of a new year, why not indulge in a treat? It feels good 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 certain to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
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: Michaela Pegum
Retail price: £830 GBP, plus VAT
Pelt Brooch II is made of a velvet fabric, copper, and steel, through Michaela Pegum’s unique and complex electroforming process. A most wearable piece of art, created by an incredibly talented artist whose work spans sculpture, wearable art, and performance.
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: Claudia Hoppe
Retail price: 1,455€
“Life lines rarely run straight,” states the artist Claudia Hoppe. “They’re often winding; sometimes the world seems upside down, and you suddenly find yourself in the middle of an emotional roller coaster. And when two people come together, things don’t necessarily get any easier.”
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: Coco Sung
Retail price: 1,325€, includes shipping
Coco Sung’s artistic practice originates from the fusion of Western painting and jewelry, through which she explores the potential of wearable art as a medium for communication and reflection. “Jewelry, in my work, goes beyond ornamentation,” she states. “It becomes a social device, a channel that reveals inner emotions and fosters dialogue between individuals. At the core of my practice lies the idea of acknowledging and embracing individual differences. Through form, color, and texture, I visualize human diversity, vulnerability, and inner conflicts. In my recent work, Shadow Kkokdu, I have drawn inspiration from Kkokdu—the traditional Korean wooden figurines that guide and protect souls on their journey from this world to the next. I was fascinated by their role as cheerful companions between life and death, offering comfort, protection, and laughter. Through Shadow Kkokdu, I wish to share a message of warmth and resilience: that in acknowledging our differences and vulnerabilities, we find connection, humor, and the courage to keep living brightly.” ©Coco Sung
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Helena Sandström
Retail price: US$11,000
Helena Sandström is known for taking her own paths. She chooses nontraditional materials and techniques with care, as for example eggshells that she combines with thin threads. She says that she is not taking anything for granted—life is not practical. To be mentioned is the great attention she got for a necklace made of gold and eggshells, made as an MA-examination work and later purchased for the National Museum in Stockholm 1999. Sandström is a jewelry artist from Stockholm with an MFA from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, in 1997. She has her studio in central Stockholm.
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: Ian Murphy
Retail price: US$2,750
Ian Murphy is a Baltimore-based artist whose practice centers on furniture and objects. Murphy holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is a current artist in residence at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. Murphy is also the co-founder of Realm, a collaborative duo that focuses on eclectic design of objects for the home. Of this work, Murphy says, “Commonly found in level-15 dungeons, goblin battle mages wield a fearsome combo of melée and ranged magic attacks. Drawing their power from the ruby they wield, they can summon flame magic; however, these rubies are a synthetic clone of the pure gems the goblins lost when exiled.”
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: Heather Guidero
Retail price: US$9,995
This incredible statement necklace from Heather Guidero features Biwa pearls with stunning luster. Each detail is carefully considered, with Guidero’s signature hand-carved texture on each of the oxidized sterling silver settings, which are all custom made to fit each unique pearl.
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: Kath Inglis
Retail price: AUS$240
Kath Inglis has worked with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) since 2001, drawn to a material she describes as prosaic in its natural state yet rich with potential. Through the application of color, the carving away of surface layers, and the fusion of heat-bonded forms, Inglis transforms this industrial material into something precious. Her ongoing experimentation with carving techniques results in wearable works that possess the visual qualities of glass while retaining the unexpected softness of the PVC itself. Her latest works are realized in a glowing selenium pink—an intense vibrant pink that fluoresces orange on the cut edge.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Itto Mishima
Retail price: 1,700€
Itto Mishima focuses on the personal memories and recorded moments embedded in paper media and discarded materials. These fragments are transformed into contemporary jewelry, using details like creases, textures, and printed marks left on crumpled receipts or cans as starting points. Through the use of metal and other materials, they are reimagined as wearable pieces.
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: Brienne Rosner
Retail price: US$1,200
This necklace is a unique piece featuring glass beads on geometric metal forms, wrapped in wire. Volume is created, but the necklace remains lightweight, giving it big impact while being a very comfortable piece to wear.
Gallery: Espace Borax
Contact: Nicolas Christol
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: US$1,000
Amber is technically a polymer, just like plastic. This fossil resin from Chiapas is around 20 million years old and bears witness to life on earth without human presence. “My creations often involve a process of destruction,” states Nicolas Christol, “in line with Gustav Metzler’s work. Here, the amber has been melted down, as it is possible that in the future, archaeologists will find layers of plastic instead of plant resin and insects.”
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: Monica Blind Påve
Retail price: 850€
Wearable art is often associated with jewelry, but within the Sami culture there are many other types of wearable crafts, such as knives, needle cases, and hats. Monica Blind Påve was raised in a Sami craftsman family and has learned different types of crafts both at home and through various craft training courses. She draws inspiration from her own culture but develops the traditional shapes and techniques in her own way: transforming the pattern on her father’s knife into silver earrings, or enlarging it into a large steel facade decoration. She interprets the craft in a new way—duodji (Sami craft) colored by both past and present.
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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: Samuel Guillen
Retail price: US$1,550
This brooch by artist and industrial designer Samuel Guillen is inspired by the ancient cultures that held a deep reverence for animal imagery as symbols of the divine. Amulets taking the form of a fly were worn in ancient Egypt as a means of protection and empowerment, for both the living and the dead. Guillen constructed the Aff brooch out of polished silver tubing, adorned with intricate floral blooms and finished with a 14-karat yellow gold pin. This piece was featured in Divinations, an NYC Jewelry Week 2025 exhibition at Specific Gravity. Guillen studied jewelry at the 92nd Street Y Jewelry Center and has been a member of Brooklyn Metal Works since 2014. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Heidi Lowe (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ye-jee Lee
Retail price: US$590
Ye-Jee Lee is working with press techniques using metal dies collected from different countries. They are pressing leather or metal, using retro metal molds in a way other than their intended use. Materials that are printed using a die with a press will acquire a structure and condition suitable to be worked into ornaments. The resulting material is light and economical because its hollowness reduces the weight and amount of the materials required.
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the institution’s name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Ellina Pollitt
Retail price: US$825
Solar Flow Cuff is a one-of-a-kind sculptural wearable artwork created from precision-cut aluminum, shaped into fluid ribbons that capture movement and light. Powder-coated in a vibrant yellow, the piece embodies dynamic energy while remaining lightweight and comfortable to wear. This cuff represents Ellina Pollitt’s mid-career exploration of architectural form, advanced fabrication, and contemporary color. Her work blends industrial processes with bold artistic expression, resulting in jewelry that is both collectible and highly wearable. Solar Flow Cuff is an ideal acquisition for collectors seeking innovative, modern, museum-level design. Recipient of the WAM 2025 Luminary Award, Finalist Collection of the Year NAJ (National Association of Jewelers) and Alumni Business Person of the Year, University of Staffordshire.
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: 1,170€, plus shipping
Catarina Silva’s recent pieces, titled My Little Capricorn—based on the television series My Little Pony—aim to re-create the proposal of a fictional language as a symbol of the zodiacal universe and imagination. This series explores and reinterprets the mythological being of Capricorn, reconstructing it as a chimera composed of its goat horns, integrating glass beads, porcelain, and other precious metals as otherness and hybridity. The different aesthetics reflect the hidden nature and dynamics, the mystic characteristic of astrological signs in general, and the fantastical, metamorphic, and iconographic fusion as a structural dreamlike language for creation.
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