Our Designer

Our talented designer Pan Yan is an accomplished traditional arts painter and oil painter with works displayed in the provincial gallery of Hebei in China. Her love for flowers and design and attention to detail in following the meticulous rule sets of Chinese painting follow through in the detail implicit in her designs.

The designs of Pan Yan are based largely from the floral world and the rich symbolic Asian connection between art and flowers, simple basic forms present in painting that build up to convey images of much presence and richness which are evident in the design of bead jewellery.

My designs are based on the natural colour and texture of the gemstones, bringing out the best possible natural beauty of them. My design ideas come from nature and important aesthetic concepts throughout human history, for example, ocean and Gothic.

To best reach the design result, I need to coordinate different colors ,which my previous oil painting art work experiences help me a lot, and variety components, which my traditional Chinese painting skills help me a lot.  

Traditional Chinese Arts and Jewellery Design

Traditional Chinese arts and jewellery design have a kind of similarity in many ways. Firstly, when you draw a traditional Chinese painting you need to have a theme, the main things you need to draw and how to structure the things you want to draw are perhaps the most important thing.

For jewellery design, you need to have a kind of inspiration like the traditional Chinese painting, for example we have concepts to catalogue the jewellery. Those concepts are the things to inspire me that day.

Secondly, in terms of dealing with lines and patterns, when you draw a traditional Chinese painting, you need to use lines to construct the picture, like bones in the body. In the jewellery design, you also need to decide which kind of gemstones are needed to build up the jewellery and how to use silver component like a pattern to best reach your design idea.

These are two important aspects of similarity between traditional Chinese painting and jewellery design that we can talk about today, we may talk about the topic later again in the future.

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