Jewellery Designer Neelakshi Singh Launches 'Art In Stone" Collection
Online, February 13, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Mumbai, 8th Feburary 2010: Jewellery and accessories designer Neelakshi Singh has launched a new collection of semi precious fusion jewellery termed ART IN STONE. The designs include precious stones, gold, silver and even rare fruit beads from countries and locations like the Amazon basin, Brazil, Chile, Peru to name a few.
Jewellery and accessories designer Neelakshi Singh is a creator par excellence. She has been designing stone and metal (both semi precious, precious and very rare) for the last three years now. Her wanderlust has taken her to more than 35 countries. And besides savoring the scenery, flora, fauna, culture, cuisine and music of the various nations she's set her foot in, she has imbibed the traditional jewelry forms of the local people.
Her thirst and creative pursuit to master and inculcate newer methods of jewelry design and embellishment has led her to experiment with a myriad of seemingly diverse raw material, metal and stone. During her travels across the world, she hunts for exotic rare stones, discarded old bits of jewellery and even seeds of exotic fruits or flowers and then matches them with equally exotic metal or a fusion of metals and local traditional methods of craftsmanship. She has also worked with lapis lazuli, rose quartz, cubic zirconia diamonds, rose cut diamonds, polkie, onyx, tourmalines, garnet, corals, turquoise, amethyst, sapphire, pearls, rubilite, opal, terracotta and dozens of other raw materials.
She has visited nations like USA, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Monaco, Portugal, Morocco, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Nepal, Iran, Israel, Dubai and many others, where she has worked with the local craftsmen and designers to learn their traditional methods.
She has worked with multiple precious and semi precious metals and other exotic materials like dried fruit beads from the Amazon basin and stones from sea shores across the world. Her passion takes her to on long walks on the deserted sea shores of islands where she searches for hours on end for exotic stones, shells and such rarities that are thrown out from the sea. She then combines them with semi precious metals like silver and crystal to create rare and exotic creations. Some of them may be enameled and gold brushed to give them lasting elegance and value.