Best from past. Unique jewelry pieces I once made, still love and want to remember, some I won't repeat and some I would do by very special request only. — earrings

For me the favorite character in my father’s paintings was always a little puffy birdie. It appeared again and again in his creations, even in the wood and ivory carvings. It influenced me a lot and I brought a similar birdie into my graphics in my twenties (as a tribute to my father), and now, after years of working with silver, I’ve noticed it has slipped into metal too. First, I made it into a ring. Later I added long danglings and turned it into a pendant. That’s how a small Siberian forest birdie transformed into a bird of paradise,...