SAY HELLO TO
'DIFFERENT STROKES, DIFFERENT PEOPLE'

We are very happy to finally launch our paint stroke collection on our website!

The project was developed early this year and already presented to the press
back at A/W 14 press days at our London PR agency - and finally it's here!

Top left to right: Broad Paint Stroke earring, Palette & Brush 3D earring, Be My Canvas earrings

Born from a conversation about Van Gogh and Gerhard Richter during a train journey from Paris to London, we dreamt up a story of a painter who works with the materiality and texture of paint. We were interested in the actual materiality of paintings and how they could feel if they could be touched instead of only looked at. What if the colour of paintings were removed, what would we see? How would it feel? It was our starting point to experiment with the volume and texture of acrylic paint.

Top left and right: Van Gogh self portrait and his painting 'Starry Night'.
We love how his broad paint strokes become characteristic of his style.
Bottom right and left: Gerhard Richter at work applying paint onto canvas next to one of his paintings.

Top: Paint Brush Choker in yellow gold plated silver.

Top: Broad Paint Stroke earring, Be My Canvas earrings

To create the silver casts, we used various paint brushes to apply different sizes and shapes of thick acrylic paint strokes onto paper. Once dried, moulds were taken directly from the textures created and the impressions were subsequently cast in solid silver pieces and then turned into little wearable pieces of art. Universally known painting tools and symbols such as brushes and palettes were furthermore used in the creation of the collection pieces.

Here is a litte video we made back then where you can see the process of the making of. Towards the end of the video you can also see our 3D modelling experiments, which were exhibited at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in April:

SMITH/GREY - Different Strokes, Different Tools on Vimeo.

We hope you like our project as much as we enjoyed making it :)
You can shop all of the pieces HERE.

Lots of love,

S/G

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