TEREZA CERMAKOVA JEWELLERY

My way to the jewellery world was not very direct. After high school in the Czech Republic, I had a great desire. To travel. I spent many years traveling in and out of Europe. During those years I did all kind of different job. When it was finally time to study, I chose the Academy of Costume and Fashion in Rome, where I studied jewellery design. One of my teachers was Claudio Franchi, master goldsmith, who designed and made the ring of Pope Benedict XVI.
I think that studying and living in Italy, has influenced not only my work and views on fashion and design, but also my mentality. Italy has become my second home, and that is also why I returned back to Italy, after some years I spent in Prague.
My ideas and inspiration derive from my childhood which I spent in beautiful countryside; being surrounded and deeply connected with nature. Also from my years of world travels; encounters of my imaginative life; and my daily observations of things around me.
Creativity is a long and emotional process for me. It is almost like gravidity. It starts with the connection between me and an impulse that comes from the outside world. Then add time, a lot of time sometimes, for the idea to mature and to take the right form and shape.
Therefore an idea for every piece of my jewellery I make comes deep down from withing a soul-searching proccess that is hard to describe or to get to know but that has proven to be a great way of translating my deep visions and sensations into reality.
I work with the lost wax technique using silver in combination with perspex, which allows me to produce very fluent and organic jewellery pieces.
I like surprises and secrets. And this is what I try to bring into my jewellery, hiding elements that can be seen at the second glance only. The observer must take the jewel in the hands to check it out to see and what is hidden in its bowels.