A good friend of mine Gun from Sweden makes these fantastic brooches. I like the way she combines different materials into 3D experiences.
As she has no website this is the only website where they are displayed.

Just Amazing…
Trinidad Contreras writes about her work: “The pieces I present are the result of the materialization of a personal and emotional state. Order, beauty and the concrete that exists within my private memory take the center role. A fortuituos encounter with nature, after having performed a sincere and demanding introspection.I feel attracted to what is known, simple, pleasant, round. It makes me reflect upon what can exist within a sensual and harmonious world.  A world where time passes by slowly, but in a vital and ephemeral …

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.