Impasto
(from the Italian impastare, “to knead”, a mixture, a paste, a material worked by hand)
Impasto is a technique in which paint is applied in thick, visible layers, allowing brushstrokes or palette-knife marks to remain on the surface.
It gives the painting relief, texture, and a tactile sense of depth, as if the surface itself were alive.
Painting as living matter.
Crafting the Impasto collection.
BAGUE TIFFANY
BAGUE COLETTE
My studio is located just next to my father’s painting studio. It is part of my everyday landscape. I wander among his canvases, his tools, the scents of turpentine and paint. Open books, printed images, gathered, sorted, and leafed through again and again. This raw, living world both soothes and inspires me.
To create this collection, I chose to work directly with paint. To lay down the material without filter, preserving the sincerity of each movement, each tool, each gesture. I did not want to imitate texture through traditional jewelry-making techniques, but to begin with the gesture itself, exactly as it is. I multiplied the trials, testing hundreds of textures and forms, letting the paint lead the way.
BAGUE HELEN - Argent 925 rhodié
BOUCLES D'OREILLES FABIENNE - Argent 925 rhodié
Each piece is crafted in northern France, in gold plated brass or rhodium plated silver.
COLLIER JOAN
BOUCLES D'OREILLES DAISY - or
COLLIER PEGGY - Argent 925 rhodié
