"Jewel: a quiver that changes everything". Sonia Rykiel
Gloria Ferester lives and works in Paris.
She had a strong attraction for singing and dancing since childhood and then, after studying art history, museology and gemmology, she chose to evolve in the art trade and decoration.
Another passion in recent years, born from her interest for gemstones, is the creation of “high fantasy” jewels, if you have to give a name. The designer is distinguished by a renewed tradition, that of craftsmanship claiming the skill of the hand and the know-how placed at the service of a very personal search for expressive and sensual forms.
"Just gold, or rather gold plated, because I only like fake jewelry" Yves Saint Laurent
Choosing costume jewelry is preferring the humility of the fake to the frozen preciousness of traditional jewelry.
They combine, for the most part, the gold plated brass and all gemstones (tourmaline, agate, quartz, turquoise, jasper, amethyst, opal, onyx, rock crystal…) but also, more simply, mother of pearl, shells, pebbles.
Their dimensions are imposing and are similar to “sculpture-jewelry” whose theme, essentially the flora, offers with the human figure and the abstract motif, the greatest sources from which, through styles and periods, the art of jewelry draws its inspiration; and Gloria Ferester’s creation doesn’t escape the rule which shows a real predilection for the organic and the flower but also for more abstract patterns where the metal bends, folds, cuts out to infinity.
“ The drawing is the basis of everything.” Alberto Giacometti
Because the individuality of each stone doesn’t lend itself to the reproduction of a model, all the jewels are one of a kind and handmade, some duplicated in two or three pieces but always differ by the use of various gemstones. They are stamped with a flower-shaped punch in the centre of which are engraved the initials GF as a signature.
Her creations are exhibited for sale in an essential place of art and design, the Paul Bert market, in the heart of the Parisian fleamarket.
Admiration, inspiration..."We should never talk about inspiration but exhalation since things do not come from some sky but especially from our depths" Jean Cocteau
“Toads and inclusions tear the gem from the anonymity of purity. They make it singular and incomparable. Two or more or an infinite number of flawless diamonds, of the same water, weight and even cut are indistinguishable. Only the possible imperfections that damage them make it possible to distinguish them. However, starting from a limit that is perhaps obvious, the damage proclaimed, and no longer modest, causes the mineral reached to shift to another jurisdiction, closer to art than to trade, where the only one, from now on, takes precedence over the identical, and the irreplaceable over the interchangeable. As much as stones are something other than stones [… ]” Roger Caillois, Pierres réfléchies