Artists

Gina Bulgamin-Salo was born in the 1980 in Jakarta in Indonesia. This since 1997 in Finland living goldsmith bends and forces the silver in her collections, as XY, Melati and Pegasus into an explosive and variable dimension.
Two worldwide famous architects, namely Antonio Gaudi from Spain and Alvar Aalto from Finland, has inspired the goldsmith Gina Bulgamin-Salo for her collections XY and Melati. She managed to misguide her audience: In spite of the heavy metal her jewelry gives an impression of lightness and modern in design. Graphical contours and emptiness shape in her jewelry an organic three-dimensionality.
The goldsmith Gina Bulgamin-Salo as an independent entrepreneur has not only restricted to a field of goldsmith, but too she has practiced a co-operation with artists in the other fields. Just some examples let to know Gina Bulgamin-Salo has made a jewelry series in the co-operation with Janne Renvall, with the Haute Couture Fashion Designer in Finland.
Gina Bulgamin-Salo has taken part in numerous competitions. In the 2007 she took part in the design competition of the street furniture in Finland and was awarded the fifth prize. Two years earlier, in the 2005, she came in the third in the international jewelry competition, in the FABERGE-Biennale in Finland.

Karolis is inspired by cities, people and tales.

Why tales? After all, every jewel, stone or metal has its own story, a story that can only be heard and spoken by the artist through his hands. He tries to find stories in precious metals and adorn them with gemstones. And he finds thoughts for these tales in the ever-striking baroque architecture. After all, it, like jewelry, creates an eternal value - a lack of authority over time. Through combining science and passion with a hint of alchemy Karolis creates art pieces that embody feelings, which brings them to life and allows leaving an imprint in history.

Ro Jewellery designed by Karolis Černeckis. It’s made of silver and gold using precious and semi-precious stones.

Charlotte Fontaine, born 1981 in Geneva in the Switzerland, joints together unconventionally materials as Bio-resin, silver and flowers from the silver. By this she conjures up the world of the frozen everlasting nature. Parts of from silver cast plants in transparent balls open the audience an optical fantasy world.
Charlotte Fontaine is fascinated from the ancient form ´circle´, which she transfers in her rings, brooches and hair pins. She has opened, cut and squashed this perfect uniform circle in her jewellery series “Cocoon” to give surprisingly rise to new spaces. Contours of metals and empty space create with light and shadows a playing sculptural piece of jewellery.
Her diploma has Charlotte Fontaine passed with honours in the Haute Ecole d´Arts Appliqués in the year 2004 in Geneva. In the year 2006 she was graduated for her continuing education as a teacher of art in the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The audience could already see the jewellery art of Charlotte Fontaine in Austria, in the Netherlands and in the Switzerland.

Gesine Garz grew up in Uelzen in northern Germany and started her professional career with a painting and varnishing education. This was followed by studies in vocational school teaching in color technology and interior design as well as English in Hanover and Bristol.
After completing her studies, she moved to London in 1995, where after a visit to the goldsmith studio of a friend, she was captured by the love of the goldsmith's profession.
An apprenticeship as a goldsmith at the Sir John Cass School of Art and Design in London was the logical conclusion from this event.
Gesine has always had a great fascination for found objects and the collection of historical / antique objects, and so she developed the interest in Mudlarking, the search for fragments of the past on the banks of the Thames in London. All of the porcelain / pottery shards that she used in her jewelry for the exhibition are original finds from the Thames and come from different centuries.
Currently, Gesine is working for the British National Trust organization National Trust at the Bodiam Castle in Sussex, where she uses her photographic talent commercially. For the remainder of her time, she teaches goldsmithing courses and creates individual trinkets for online and private clients.

He started his professional career as mechanical designer, working in the field of industrial design for several years. However, his aptitude for more artistic expression led him to study design and creation of jewellery at Guildhall University, “John Cass” in London.
He create key- jewellery, small windows to imaginary worlds, messages of joy and optimism. Vasilis use material such as the enamel the transparency and variety of colors of which make possible the synthesis of unique images for each piece of jewellery . He also use titanium which has the unique property to bear colors that creates key-images which remind us of the positive aspects of life, like the rainbow.
Each piece of jewellery faced with fine metals, charged with positive way of thinking and positive energy is sent to find their owner. Feel their energy and discover their magic.

The master goldsmith Viola Hermann has been very adventurous since childhood. When she got her hands on acrylic plates a few years ago, she also started to try out what she could do with the plastic.
Today, her name stands for a modern, squeaky and colorful way to make jewelry. In the showcases of her workshop atelier are rings in all conceivable colors, color combinations and shapes. Objectivity is the clear distinguishing feature of this work. Techniques and fasteners are perfectly matched to the harmony between acrylic and precious metals.
Viola Hermann's customers can put together their jewelery individually, combine them with precious metals and create their own unique pieces on this way.

Heli Kauhanen, born 1972, is one of the members of the jewellery artists´ group “X8” in Lahti in Central Finland.
Characteristic of Heli Kauhanens jewellery art is a reducing of non-visible and visible forms of nature; They have left impressions in her jewellery. Heli Kauhanen demonstrate lightness of wind and rotational motion in the metal with delicacy and iron solidity.
In her rings we can find prints of leaves, butterflies and even a phrase of old Swedish Bible, which reminds us of joys and sorrows in the past and present.
The drop form in her rings “Lacrima” calls up to mind a spring, the cooled air of a hot summer and a crystallized snowflake in autumn and winter.
A wide public in many exhibitions in Estland, Finnland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain could get to know the jewellery of this with diversity of nature inspired jewellery designer. In 2005 Heli Kauhanen was awarded a prize to Inspecta in the Biennial of Faberge in Finnland.

Guntis Lauders, born 1965 in Riga in Latvia, displays in his jewellery the whole palette of his imaginary in wonderful colours. In his jewellery we can find on the one hand clear and strong, on the other hand narrow and bending forms. The each other swallowed figures of animals are suggestive of the miniature painting of a book illumination in the Middle Ages. Huge, vast contours form the shape of imaginary figures, which are decorated with fine, narrow lines of silver and mammoth ivory.
The public could get up to know the jewellery of this unique and with prizes awarded artist up to now in Bulgarian, France, Great-Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Spain, Austria, as too in the Netherlands and in the United States.

 

Poppy is an Abstract Artist/Jeweller based in the United Kingdom, she is synaesthetic, and has a visual response to music and sound that resembles a colourful, abstract animation.
She takes herinspiration for her jewellery and painting from the drawings generated while listening to music both recorded and live. Poppy works in two ways; a more freeform method that sculpts a piece up from a single material and a more formal, assembled way that incorporates a variety of materials.

She will present her current Project Strange Attractors.
Poppy's craft practice explores and expresses her visual and emotional response to music through her handwork. She works in series making three and two dimensional works of jewellery, airbrush painting and drawing.

The estonian freelance-artist Mari Relo-Šaulys finished her Bachelor of Arts studies in the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1997. Subsequently she studied one semester in the University of Art and Design in Burg Giebichstein in Halle in Germany.
In her works she expresses the delicate poetry of day-to-day life, like too the mechanisms and forms of nature. Her exact contemplations of all-pervasive nature and surprising unexpected events of day-to-day life find their forms in her brooches, bangles and cornies.
Characteristic of the jewelleries of Mari Relo-Šaulys, as too of  her husband Adolfas Šaulys, are precise, to the last details thought-out and hand-craft masterly converted forms of ideas.
The jewelleries of Mari Relo-Šaulys could be seen in the numerous exhibitions and galleries in the Baltic Nations, in Finland, in Scotland, in Holland, in Poland, in Hungary, in China and in Spain.
Mari Relo-Šaulys is the permanent exhibitor in the Estonian Art Museum in Tallinn in Esthonia and in the Amber Museum-Gallery in Vilnius in Lithuania. (Litauen)

Shani Shtaingart has taken over influences from the different cultures in her jewelry. She is born in Omsk in Siberia in the Soviet Union, immigrated to Israel and moved since two years to Sweden. She joins together the influences of Russian ornaments, the traditional handcraft of silver in the Middle East and the clear form language in Scandinavia.
As a result of her ability to join together sensitive influences of different cultures there are born elegant, even ethereal pieces of jewelry, which have a modern tone of the world of fashion. Tender flower motifs of lace or abstract archaic ornaments with a new elegant expression are characteristic for the jewelry of Shani Shtaingart.
Shani Shtaingart has got her education in the college of technic and design in Ramat Gan in Israel. In the art academy in Göteborg in Sweden she has finished further master courses in jewelry design from 2009 to 2010. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and Sweden. Since two years Shani Shtaingart manages her own atelier in Gothenburg.

Ewa grew up in Upper Silesia, the largest industrial area in Poland. Being raised in a landscape of steelworks and coal mines, naturally directed her interests towards industry and its influence on the life surrounding her. Wrought iron gates or floral cast iron elements of architecture – She was fascinated by the blend of the artistry and the weight they carried. Ewa fell in love with the fire and forge; two great forces of change and creation. This love led her to discover the phenomenon of jewellery; a perfect symbiosis of art, metalsmithing and engineering knowledge.

After graduating in mechanical engineering, she moved to Sweden. Living close to nature and slowing down the pace of life gave a new perspective on her interests. Ewa merged her love for jewellery, and passion for metalwork and engineering, and established her own company. Ewa's world has changed and creating objects of beauty has become her life´s passion. Ewa's first pieces were strongly influenced by decorative and monumental ironwork – the artistic splendour of fine scrolls and lines, with the passing of time the world around her, the beauty of Nature, became involved in her designs. Today Ewa's pieces of jewellery are inspired by moments she has spent in the gardens and nature. They comprise reminiscent of the alluring beauty, symbolic language and secrets hidden behind the delicacy of flowers.

Each piece of Ewa's jewellery is entirely hand- crafted, -carved in precious metals and gemstones. She finds that combining traditional old jewellery techniques perfectly underlines the distinctive quality in my pieces. Ewa loves the slow and time consuming process in the making of her jewellery, resulting in intricate floral patterns and unusual surface textures. It is the precise balance of colour and techniques that ensures the uniqueness of her jewellery, which is why personally cutting, carving and selecting the gemstones for their - shape, size, fineness, colour and cut, lends significance and meaning to each piece.

Ewa's collection includes one-of-a-kind collectable pieces that reflect her appreciation of individuality and uniqueness. Each piece has its own personality and story to tell.

Kimi Te is an artist who from her rigid upbringing has rediscovered her bravado learning in Rome’s relaxed ambiance.
Her inherited values are strong in her work while the fluidity from her experiences sculpts the structure and embellishes intricate fine work.
Emotion is one of the main components of her opus, which she draws from various interests and influences of her rich past and present experiences. It is said to set the stage for her work, succeeded by a dance between control and relinquish, a balancing act between sculptural craftsmanship and play; characteristics very much evident in her works.

 

Ülle Voosalu was born in 1954 in the famous university and former Hanseatic town, in Tarto in Estonia. By her unusual technique creates she a piece of “fit for wear” jewellery. She weaves together silver wire, glittering crystal stones and glimmering pearls.
The names of her pieces let us point to themes, which have inspired the jewellery artist Ülle Voosalu. She weaves a moment of the early morning hours, the movement of “Light” and “Flight” inside the shell, in which lines twine themselves wild among themselves and again drift apart. With this opulent play of materials creates Ülle Voosalu the impression of lightness and transparency in three dimensional space. Just these qualities give an unique feature for the jewel of Ülle Voosalu.
The jewellery artist, Ülle Voosalu, has taken a part in the numerous exhibitions in Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, and Russia. She works since 2001 as a freelancer jewellery artist in Tallinn. For the public it is possible to get to know her jewellery in the collections of museums as in the museum of “Applied Arts and Crafts” and in the A-gallery in Tallinn in Estonia.

Marius Zakaras is always looking for new ways in making jewelery. He risks not adhering to standard ways of production but tries to "talk" with the "non-speaking things".
After finding a common language, he begins to control the material and tame the metal surface. He loves this challenge, which requires a certain amount of stubbornness.
In his works, he often uses the mystical metal titan, whose properties fascinate him again and again.
A good creative idea is always unexpected in his opinion. Experimenting and improvising are the bridges that separate his creativity from industrial production.