January 2026, Part 2
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 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, Montreal, QC, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Philipp Spillmann
Retail price: 1,150€
Philipp Spillmann is exploring alternative materials found in garbage dumps, flea markets, or discarded in nature: materials that suggest visualizations of perceptions and associations. The unexpected objects—remains of human activities—can become a piece of jewelry.
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: 910€
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 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.
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the institution’s name to link to its website)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: US$500
Probably the gesture that unites all areas of the creation of ornament, from fine jewelry to conceptual jewelry, is searching for a stone or small element that has fallen to the ground, under a piece of furniture, or in metal dust. This ring is a tribute to those lost hours. You have to shake the silver dust to reveal a small yellow sapphire. A humorous gesture that should not obscure the very real suffering of the workers who extract the stones in often extreme conditions. Size can be adjusted.
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Sante Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The team (click for email)
Artist: Liaung Chung Yen
Retail price: $ 2,500
Liang Chung Yen’s cuff carries the quiet drama of contrast—darkened silver textured like strands of hair, a surface alive with fine gesture. A pear-shaped jasper gleams at the center, its organic warmth accentuated by delicate flashes of diamond light. Hints of fused gold dust glimmer across the oxidized ground, a whisper of luxury that binds elemental material to refined craft.
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: Leonor Hipólito
Retail price: 1,480€
“Human Patterns #11, from 2024, is part of a jewelry project initiated in 2008 and inspired by the multiple ways through which human beings communicate and relate,” states Leonor Hipólito, “from gestures and symbols to the objects and technologies that mediate our encounters. This one-of-a-kind pendant exemplifies [my] artistic approach. Deliberately fragmented, it features what could be a paper note, a drawing, or even a sketch that was wrapped and concealed, as if encoding a mystery—something once more complete.” The Human Patterns project has been featured at Goldfingers gallery, in Copenhagen, Denmark; Viceversa gallery, in Lausanne, Switzerland; and now Galeria Reverso, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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: 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: Kelly Jean Conroy
Retail price: US$2,995
Etched mother-of-pearl comes to life with this statement necklace by Kelly Jean Conroy. Each unique element is etched by hand and then prong set in oxidized sterling silver. A playful piece that is perfect to wear to a picnic!
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$1,500
Helena Sandström is known for taking her own paths. She chooses nontraditional materials and techniques with care, as, for example, the metal zinc. Since zinc cannot be soldered in the usual way, she creates volume from the flat sheet by melting, sawing, and folding. She also works with etching to create patterns and a variety of beautiful shades of gray in the metal. Her work often comments on nature and environmental issues in different ways. 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: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Danni Schwaag
Retail price: 575€, includes shipping
From the artist: “In my current work, Twisted Coagulation, I refer to the material galalith—a casein material from the 1930s—and its properties, as well as to my state of being, the recurring questioning of (artistic) creation, enduring a crisis of meaning, accepting, questioning, being stuck, wriggling out, and the new paths that can open up. Perhaps ‘twisted’ thinking is the most honest form of clarity, because it forces us not to flee in a straight line and because clarity sometimes only comes when one dares to be confused. Where something twists, tension arises. A thought that wraps itself around itself can become an insight—or a knot.” ©Danni Schwaag
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: Eleonora Federici
Retail price: US$25,000
From the artist: “This earring was inspired by the innate elegance of Nature, the fascinating movement of living beings, and the amazing colors they display. During my stay in California, I had the chance to see and admire this elegant and amazing creature in person for the first time in my life. [Eleonora Federici is from Italy.] What a wonderful, incredible animal! Not only did it embody exactly what I wanted to represent, but it had all the characteristics I look for in a jewel. So I could not help but dedicate a jewel to it. It is my way to show how human beings and animals can live together respecting and loving each other.”
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
Gossamer Brooch I is a unique, most original brooch made of organza fabric, copper, silver, and shibuichi, produced through Michaela Pegum’s extraordinary complex electroforming process, ending in an exquisitely beautiful object. A wearable art piece, done by an incredibly talented artist whose work spans sculpture, wearable art, and performance.
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: Natalie Lowe
Retail price: US$330
This piece is a fun play on scale and the objects we interact with on a daily basis. A couch is usually a utilitarian object, but this brooch gives you a chance to wear it instead!
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: Nils Hint
Retail price: Each 492€, plus shipping
Dirty Dishes is a series of brooches and objects made from ready-made cutlery knives. Its aesthetics flirt with traditional baroque forge work. The found cutlery knives are cut open and twisted. The transformed knives are later soldered together to create patterns. The cobalt and nickel steel used in the old cutlery is very stiff and naturally forms symmetrical bends because of its properties.
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: Anna Morse
Retail price: US$3,000
Anna Morse is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, jewelry, and installation. Through her process-based discipline, Morse is constantly learning and incorporating new techniques and materials in her practice. An avid reader of Bergson and Deleuze, Morse is interested in the concept of reality, which she explores through her materiality and labor-intensive work. Morse graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in painting in December 2022. She has shown work in various group shows in Baltimore, New York City, and abroad. Originally from Northern California and Seattle, she is currently based in Baltimore.
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: Alicia Jane Boswell
Retail price: US$2,000
Alicia Jane Boswell’s work blends the traditional crafts of silversmithing, goldsmithing, enameling, engraving, and lacemaking with contemporary digital techniques like 3D rendering and laser cutting to create innovative, wearable jewelry. Through this fusion of methods, she explores the intersection of craftsmanship, technology, and personal expression—where the tactile meets the digital.
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: Bianca Abreu
Retail price: US$1,200
Luminous violet glass crescents are linked together with a hand-fabricated sterling silver chain of the same shape in this statement necklace by AUR Jewelry. Crafted by artist Bianca Abreu, this piece was featured in Specific Gravity’s NYC Jewelry Week 2025 exhibition, Divinations, within Abreu’s Orbiculum I, a wooden jewelry case illuminated by a blown-glass “crystal ball.” The interplay of glass and light transforms this necklace into both object and oracle, evoking divination as a meditation on that which is below the surface. Abreu received her BFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute and is currently a resident artist at Brooklyn Metal Works.
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