Serendipity
Pauletta Brooks Wearable Art creates one-of-a-kind sculptural jewelry using raw minerals, gemstones, and mixed media elements.
My work explores the beauty of natural stones, druzy crystals, and mineral specimens, transforming them into artisan statement necklaces, earrings, and rings designed as wearable art.
Where it all began:
After graduating college, studying art and design, I worked for many years in the fashion industry as an illustrator, stylist and art director. Then, one day, I had that “ah-ha” moment! I was asked to style a fashion show for a line of simple black bathing suits. Not finding what I wanted in the way of accessories, I decided to fabricate my own jewelry to be worn by the models. Big, bold, tribal, and flowing down to the collarbone, my 26 pairs of one-of-a-kind earrings made their debut down the runway, and ultimately, were the showstopper! Buyers, anxious to know ‘who designed the jewelry’, placed orders and provided the impetus to launch into this new career.
Designer of Wearable Art.
Magnificent natural minerals, raw, semiprecious, and polished stones, vintage glass crystals and findings, resin mesh, lavish gold leaf, and patinas – all materials sculpted by Pauletta Brooks, to create her unique designs, eye-catching manifestations from a mysterious world of beauty and fantasy. Blessed with a bountiful imagination, this graduate of the Arts from both Hampshire College and The Fashion Institute of Technology shapes each piece individually, instinctively allowing the material to dictate form while always keeping in mind the function for the wearer. Her signature is unmistakable: sculptural, organic, bold ‘signature’ pieces that often look as if they’ve been dredged up from the sea from a mermaid’s lair.
Valued for her ingenuity and original designs, her jewelry has been featured in editorials in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Details, The Daily News, and Ornament Magazine, as well as shown at The Folk Art Museum of New York City and the galleries at The Fashion Institute of Technology.
All handmade in New York City, each of her designs is a one-of-a-kind wearable art piece valued by all who treasure their own uniqueness.
You can see more at: www.PaulettaBrooks.com -or- www.SomethingFromNothingCreative.com
For every purchase, Pauletta has committed to donate a percentage% of the net profits to help provide clean water access to a person in need.
