Women in Art 278 Magazine July 2015 | Page 8

russian artist Anastasia Lovisetto jewelry I love creating wearable art. My goal is to make women feel beautiful and happy when they put on one of my jewelry pieces. I want them to experience that same dream-like state of being that I envision when creating my jewelry. Romantic designs are my specialty and passion. The materials I use to create my necklaces vary but I prefer to work with semi precious stones, glass beads, artificial leather, and linen thread. I’ve lived in the UK since 2006. My family moved here from Moscow, Russia, where I was born and lived first thirty years of my life. I have always had a passion for art and as a child attended Children’s School of Art, but my desire to become an artist was not to be fulfilled till I turned 27 as after finishing a high school I got a degree at Moscow State University and made a successful office career. By the age of 27 I worked for an international company operating out of Russia. Nevertheless, I decided to leave the corporate world and pursue my dream of becoming an artist. I graduated from Academic School of Design in Moscow in 2005 and have being designing and making jewelry ever since. My most recent collections are “Dreaming of Butterflies” and “Web”. “Dreaming of Butterflies” is inspired by natural beauty of butterflies, Gustav Klimt paintings, and gorgeous vintage brooches. I design and embellish each butterfly individually using textile, simulated leather, and pink glass pearls. Creating and designing my Butterfly necklaces is like living in a dream, in an enchanted forest. It feels like I am bringing beauty, happiness and peace to this world, by inhabiting it with such gentle and gorgeous creations as butterflies. My other collection “Web” continues the enchanted forest theme. It features Web necklaces where tiny pearls shine on linen thread and remind me of a spider web embellished with dew drops on a sunny morning. wom en ART page 8