different strokes different people


/// It came to me late during complete darkness, when everything was still and the night was certain of its own solitude. My hands picked up the brush and paint made its way across the canvas, as if to write its own story in front of me. I witnessed these moments like an innocent child. When dusk slowly arrived, I looked at the brush in my hand and it looked back at me as if to say, “In my dreams, I always wanted to freeze this fleeting moment, this moment that usually just passes without anyone realising but you.” ///



Born from a conversation about Van Gogh and Gerhard Richter during a train journey where we thought about the actual materiality of paintings and how they would feel if they could be touched instead of only looked at, we started to turn painted texture into cast, wearable pieces.
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.

© 2015 SMITH/GREY – Handmade Jewellery from London, England.

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