Any one who is at all familiar with my work knows that I love stackable rings, and rings that are not massive or thick, although those happen as well.
Also, the way my design process works is that one thing leads to another, and design elements carry on evolving over the years.
I have been using cold enamel now for about 15 years, and I am still using it, but in a completely different way than I was when I started out.
Flower Pins, Sterling Silver & cold enamel from some time 1994
Cold Enamel and Silver khaki leaf watch some time around 2002
Leaf Coin Cluster Bracelet - Sterling Silver and Cold Enamel some time in 2006 -7
photo credit Shachar Fleischmann
My dot collections have also been going on for a good amount of time and keep evolving into new and beautiful pieces which manage to inspire me to make yet more dot pieces.
One of the leading elements of the dot collections are my dot rings, either with or without tiny diamonds worn alone or in a stack. You can stack as many as you want with or without diamonds and other set stones and they are great to wear, having a really nice presents as well as being extremely comfortable and wearable.
Anyway, I wasn’t intending to talk about rings that I have already designed, but about rings that I have in my head at the moment, and am very excited about making.
The reason I went on about the dot rings is that these will be stackable as well, and I would also like them to be the second rings in my regular collection to be set with 1 or 0.5 point diamonds.
I will make two series of them, one of which I started on yesterday, with different colored stones (iolite, peridot and pink tourmaline) set in 22 karat gold, with silver ring shanks. I am tempted to have white cubic zircons flanking the stones for some extra sparkle.
New Stack Rings (not quite done yet)
Along the same lines, are the rings that I really want to make, with milky aqua marine and instead of the shanks being in sterling silver, they will be out of 14 karat gold. Flanking the aqua marines on each side will be three or four 1 point or 1/2 point diamonds.
The truth is - I would love to start working more with diamonds. The contrast between the precise aesthetic that is the usual fair with diamond jewelry and my more freestyle aesthetic is fast becoming something I would like to explore.
As Picasso said: “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
One last thing - Most of the photos on this post are photographed by me (which is why they are not so great) except for the one that I creditedto Shachar Fleischmann
