I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and all the best for 2011.
Thank you for all the positive comments, ideas and input I have received from you during 2010. It has been a great pleasure, and I feel honoured to have this dialogue with you. I am looking forward  to the new year with the Art Forward blog.
The bracelet below you might recognise (from the image in the top right corner of the blog). I made it some years ago and it has been my favorite bracelet ever since. …

Ela Tudoran a jewellery-artist from Romania send me a link to her colorful work. I found it very inspiring and I am looking forward to show you more in a couble of days. If you can’t wait you can explore her work at her website and Picasa-gallery.

Patrìcia Correia Domingues is part of a group of jewellers from Barcelona, Spain called BORAX08001. Take a look at their website – there are a lot of interesting pieces of work.

 
Black is beautiful….

She writes about her work:
“I deconstruct to reconstruct.
I mess things up.
Just to put them back in order.
Often in a new kind of order.
It is like a never-ending flow,
and that is what is keeping me running”
Take a look at her website.

The other day I received a mail from Stina Lind og Kevin James, a Danish/Australian desing duo. I found it quit interesting to explore their website and I especially would like to show you these pieces – all in black. It is quit interesting to see how strong an influence the colour has on the expression.
Stina Lind and Kevin James writes about themselves at their website: LIND&JAMES is a contemporary and new fangled jewellery design and production collective. The focus of the directors Stina Lind and Kevin James Egan is …