Colette Denton 20k Gold Tourmaline Earrings Enamel Artisan 1996 2.5″ #14
$4,500
This gorgeous pair of earrings from artist Colette Denton feature curved abstract gold panels adorned with bezel-set tourmaline and enameled fragments. Unique and versatile, these earrings are sure to create a conversation.
About the Artist: Colette has created a series of highly evocative images that tend to suggest more than they describe. Since the late 1980s her dazzling cloisonné abstractions which she calls ‘ideograms’ and ‘pictograms’ have become increasingly spare and idiosyncratic.
Colette’s great affinity for animals informs every aspect of her work and gives shape to her highly spiritual vision. Abstract images of animals – particularly ravens and cats -recur throughout her work. Similarly, calligraphic symbols often appear, suggesting words and meanings in some archaic and elusive language. The artist combines these mysterious signs and symbols in an effort to lead the viewer and/or the wearer to a deeper understanding of themselves and a richer experience of the world.
Her work has been featured in numerous important museum and gallery exhibitions, and is also represented in the collections of The Oakland Museum of California; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington: Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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