Jewelry
Katherine Goulandris
New to Spring 2025!
Abiquiu, NM
Booth 154
New to Spring 2025!
Our studio is a hand built solar powered adobe located near the historic village of Abiquiu, New Mexico. The juniper and chamisa studded hills, and the Chama river valley below, once inspired artist Georgia O’ Keeffe. The landscape is an important backdrop in our creative life.
We experience the expression of art as an attempt to more deeply understand the world around us. By looking more closely into what we see we hope to reveal the patterns in nature. Just as buffalo grass, cactus and juniper work together to form a harmony in their landscape we use metal, fire and stone in a effort to evoke a similar harmony.
We feel that when the architecture of a jewelry piece relates to the architecture of the human body the design becomes alive and in doing so is no longer a piece of static sculpture. The body moves- a jewelry piece which is designed to follow this natural motion disrupts the idea of what jewelry is in a traditional sense, it becomes organic.
We employ traditional fabrication methods using sterling silver, 22k,18k and 14k gold. We hand solder, hand finish/polish and utilize some patination techniques. To set our facet cut gems we like tube settings and for the naturally cut stones we use the bezel setting style. Our signature necklaces are kinetic, adjustable and sculptural. All designs are our own. We work together because the process of jewelry making is for us collaborative. Something special happens which sharpens the relationship to our art. Our intention from the beginning has not only been to make jewelry for adornment, but instead to try and step out of the box of what is expected and make designs which surprise our audience with something new or innovative and in this way invite them into the creative process.