Finding your way as a creative jewelry artist can sometimes be a challenge.  Coming up with a unique look for your brand, mastering techniques, trying to make your jewelry both artistic and marketable.  Most jewelers find themselves at times inspired and at times overwhelmed and discouraged. 

Speaking to other jewelry artists helps me to see that each of us is unique in our creative process, and yet tied together by our desire to share our work with others and gain approval and success from our designs, regardless of or niche.  Here, the designer behind high fashion jewelry brandHadasity shares some of her thoughts on her jewelry career.

Where do you find inspiration?
On the streets of New York and the weekend vintage flea markets. I get a real high from looking at antiques and vintage fashion. The pieces call out to me and I get aninexplicable flutter in my heart. I just know that I have to get some of those pieces.

How did you first get into jewelry art?
I love art and fashion. I had my bedroom door covered in Vogue and Runway magazine pages when I was young till my dad made me take them down in horror of theincreasingly “half-dressed” women in his house.

I sketched a lot and was determined to become a fashion designer. Since I never took a sewing class, my creative outlet was in taking random things in the house like copper wire, bending it around to form a ring. I suppose I went into Jewelry art because I somehow just knew what to do with all that wire. It was something that allowed me to unleash my creative rage as well as fill up my wardrobe. Back then I never bought any Jewelry unless it was vintage. I always looked at something and decided I could make instead of buying it.

What keeps you motivated?
I believe that your passion drives your motivation. Prior to jewelry designing full time, I worked in other jobs for the money and not the passion. I had to find ways to keep myself motivated: entice myself with a few vacations here and there, buy myself nice things to reward myself for the hard work I had put in, but at the end of it I still lost as it was not my passion.

These days just the mere thought of coming up with a masterpiece statement necklace is enough to keep me motivated, or a simple compliment from strangers on my jewelry.

Can you name another jewelry designer whose work you admire?
I am so stuck in the times of the past that I can’t say I admire another jewelry designer more than Alfred Philippe who designed forTrifari in the 1930s. I simply adore his work and feel that his designs are truly wearable art. I love the colors and madness in the size of them all! I have a few of his pieces in my possession but I can’t bare to use them in my own designs.

What is your favorite design, and is this your best seller?
More often than not, my favorite designs need a lot more thought provoking to be appreciated. My favorite design is a loud statement necklace called “ Screaming Neon”. I love how big, bold and colorful it is. It still has not been sold as some people find it too big a necklace and are afraid they can’t pull it off. I’m sure it will find itsFashionista owner soon though!

Do you find the process of experimentation frustrating or inspiring?
It’s not frustrating at all for me. In fact, I love experimentation. I could do something so wrong and it would turn out so right. Designing is experimenting, how else will art look different if you don’t try something new and wild?

You can find Hadasity at her online gallery.