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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Melinda Hutton

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Closures/Remnants was born when Melinda Hutton, designer and artist, stumbled upon the world of antique buttons 26 years ago and became hooked.Since then, she has been designing jewelry using antique and collectible buttons and has expanded her work to include handcrafting new pieces from well-loved vintage remnant pieces.Each piece is a one-of-a-kind, handcrafted piece of artwork.Texture, color, shape and type of button are factors Hutton considers at length before her designs are complete.As an artist, Hutton’s goal when designing is to create a very personal, heirloom quality piece of jewelry that will be worn often and for years to come.She combines old buttons with each other or with other ephemera to create one-of-a-kind jewelry.More of Melissa Hutton’s work can be found at https://www.closures-remnants.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Robin Callahan

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Robin Callahan is a custom jewelry designer, metalsmith and lapidary artist with her own company, Robin Callahan Designs, LLC.The artist often sources rough gems directly from mines and specialty dealers, custom cuts gems, or has the best lapidary artists in the world facet/carve the gems, then designs and creates one of a kind heirloom-worthy jewelry.Callahan studied with masters in the industry to learn how to cut and facet her own gems, and was soon invited to show her lapidary work in prestigious museums and private collections.All her pieces are unique, featuring beautiful gemstones and pearls, in breathtaking settings.Callahan’s work is bold and creative, her finely crafted pieces the perfect showcase for her love of color and light, making custom- as well as fantasy-cut jewelry designs.She works mostly by commission, creating custom pieces for clients around the world.The artist is fortunate enough to work with the industry’s most talented and award-winning lapidaries, but on occasion and when time allows, enjoys cutting the gemstones herself.

Callahan considers herself brave, determined and a perfectionist. “This is beyond things like being creative and artistic, because you need those to be a jewelry designer and maker,” she explains.More of Robin Callahan‘s amazing jewelry can be found at https://shop.robincallahandesigns.com/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Anand Shah

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Jewelry designer Anand Shah has the power to surprise each time he unveils a collection.

With no formal training, but a passion for design, Shah founded Ansaa Jewelry in Mumbai, India, in 1997, with the simple aim of creating exemplary hand-crafted 22 carat gold pieces.

Shah broke through established conventions to come up with a new and contemporary style, harnessing traditional Indian craftsmanship.

Much ahead of his times, the prolific and experimental artist uses alternative material like rosewood, oil paints, cameos, mother-of-pearl and glass in his extraordinary collections.

An artist par excellence, Shah uses gold, a medium he reveres, to stylishly replicate the bounties of nature.His pieces have a distinct design grammar bearing a blend of luxuriant grandeur coupled with an understated simplicity, which perhaps is a reflection of his own grounded nature.

Invoking the spirit of nature in gold is no easy task. It requires a high level of virtuosity to envision unexpected and intricate forms and to be able to turn them into sophisticated and wearable art.

“Nature is a fount of inspiration for me,” says Shah.“We are lucky to live on this planet which is full of beauty – and through my creations, I try to bring forth the synergistic relationship between Man and Nature.”

More of Anand Shah‘s marvelous jewelry can be found at https://www.facebook.com/aanandsshah/ and India Times.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Pierre Sterlé

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Pierre Sterlé (1905–1978) was a French jeweler, known as the ‘couturier of jewelry’.

Sterlé may be one of the most important jewelry designers you’ve never heard of.

His lyrical, highly-engineered creations are some of the most distinctive designs of the 20th Century—and some of the most collectible.

But because his business was so exclusive and his clientele so elite, his name isn’t as widely known as some of his contemporaries.

Considered during his lifetime to have been an inspired innovator, he reached his apogee in the 1940’s and 50’s.

His work with precious stones and metal – often inspired by nature – still commands strong interest at auction.

 His well-crafted jewelry often used motifs from nature; birds, flowers, leaves and feathers.

 Coupled with personal tragedy which plagued him throughout the 1960’s, he ultimately was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1976 and liquidate his stock.

Most of the stock was acquired by Chaumet, who retained Sterlé as a ‘technical consultant’ until his death in 1978.

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