CLAUDIA FALCÃO

Category: Design

What a creative mind produces is always intrinsic.

  • Beyond arte with love

    Beyond arte with love

    Camilla Groen in her secret world, where she celebrates colours, love and art.img_0226

    I first encountered Camilla’s work  in a moment of celebrating love, at the Valentine’s fair. It was the most inspiring corner with string artwork and paper crafts.

    Camilla went to university in the capital of Rio de Janeiro to get her degree in International Relations. She worked at Petrobras, where she met her husband. In 2012 they moved to The Netherlands.

    She is a dedicated mother of three beautiful children. With  great enthusiasm, she says: “I love my family.”

    She adds: I fell in love with string art.

    Certainly, her pieces are a great romance. Her fingers flirt with strings showing off their best of colours.

    The pieces below are available! Contact Camilla Groen

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  • Enamelling with Mana Ottmer – the Georgian jewellery designer talked me through the ancient technique of Enamel.

    Enamelling with Mana Ottmer – the Georgian jewellery designer talked me through the ancient technique of Enamel.

    Houten, The Netherlands.

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    She is so passionate about it when showing the process. She said that sometimes a piece needs to be in the oven several times for a perfect finishing.

    Apart from her divine culinary, Mana Ottmer is also known for jewellery designing. She uses the ancient technique of Cloisonné Enamel.

     

    According to the Association of Dutch Enamelers (Vereniging van Nederlandse Emailleurs):

    “The cloisonné technique was already applied in the 5th century BC. It is a form of enamelling with a crushed wire in certain motifs or figures on a metal surface. The gaps are covered with emaille-powder in different colors. The crushed wire prevents the colours to blend during the heating of the enamel, so each color is locked in its own cell.”

    In my point of view, this is a technique of decoration which involves a piece of jewellery  with a glossy coloured type of fondant.

    Mana’s designs are graceful and it stands Renaissance  and Byzantine style.

    Check out Mana’s jewellery website Mana1