Hi I'm Nadia Eloise, fine jeweller and visual artist passionate about figurative drawing and painting. Based in the lovely seaside town of Margate UK.
I have always felt the urge to create art, a curious observer of life from early childhood. Now I get to express my thoughts and inspirations through jewellery and painting.
My creative formation began in The Brits School where I studied Visual Arts and Design, I was encouraged to explore different mediums and found a love for oil painting. Especially portrait painting. Every year I went to visit the BP Portrait awards and dreamt that one day I would have one of my paintings in there.
I starting my jewellery journey in 2009 at London Metropolitan University studying a degree in Silversmithing and Jewellery Design. I then went on to develop goldsmithing skills, completing my two year Goldsmith apprenticeship in Hatton Garden(London's jewellery quarter).
I began working for myself, creating small collections of jewellery and bespoke commissions after I had my first Daughter. I discovered it wasn't so easy to go back to working for some else when you had a baby in toe. So I fitted things around her. Slowly my business grew and in the recent years I've felt the urge to go back to painting along creating jewellery. Each medium is a different yet so important to me. I almost can't have one without the other now. I feel my inspirations are able to be communicated through both mediums in a complimentary way.
I have a fine eye for detail and strive for creating pieces with the utmost care and craftswomanship. I am inspired by exploring and breaking down taboos with my Vulva Pendant and very raw vulnerable paintings that confront our views around the female form, to the textures and shapes that get overlooked and ignored by abstracting them and putting them into precious metal like my Wave Hoops and Fold Rings. I love translating a concept into fine jewellery-so you can wear those works of art on you body. Jewellery is sentimental and personal it can be a talisman or a lucky charm giving you confidence. I feel so honoured to be able to make wearable art you can treasure.
Sustainability is important in my work, creating small hand made batches often made to order or bespoke commissions I always use recycled Gold and Silver. Often melting down clients old Gold jewellery and remaking it into something new!