‘Monet meets Boris Vian’
Necklace (2024)
Sterling silver, opal and garnet
Claude Monet was a French impressionist painter, famous for his water lillies.
Boris Vian was a French writer; his novel: Froth On The Daydream (published in 1947) inspired this creation.
Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian (L’Écume des Jours) is a surrealist and existentialist novel renowned for its poetic and creative language. It relates how Colin’s existence darkens gradually when his wife Chloe develops an illness that can be treated only by surrounding her with flowers.
‘Pina Bausch meets Magritte’
Sculpture (2023)
Sterling silver and labradorite
Pina Bausch was a neo-expressionist dancer and choreographer from Germany.
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter, known for his depictions of familiar objects in unexpected contexts.
‘Rodin meets Botticelli’
Necklace (2017)
Sterling silver and shell
Auguste Rodin was 19th century French sculptor, he was a naturalist, less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotions.
Sandro Botticelli is an Italian painter from Renaissance, famous for his paintings ‘The Spring’ and ‘The Birth of Venus’.
‘Arabic Sunrise’
Ring (2013)
Sterling silver, yellow and pink gold
Inspired by a painting I made.
‘Momentum towards Infinity*’
Brooch (2008)
Yellow and white gold, pearls and diamonds
Inspired by Dominique Gauthier’s abstract expressionism paintings (in particular Contre-Raisons).
Paintings without borders:
“Forme ouverte et ajouree, organisee cependant par de grands arcs, tout a la fois expansive et lovee, dansante.”
* “… l’elan vers l’infini que l’on percoit dans ce fouillis de lignes” (W. Woringer).
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