TARA LOIS

There are many references to Tara Lois being an exceptionally unique jeweller. Let us explain why we can honestly make this claim. Read more about Tara Lois.

Tara Lois is a narrative creator who brings her distinctive style to sculpting emotional stories in the form of wearable art, handcrafted through the media of precious metals, gemstones and glass.

Training & Education

Most jewellery designers do not have the training and skills to create jewellery. On the other hand, jewellers are skilled in creating jewellery but most have not trained in design.

We can honestly say that Tara Lois stands out in the jewellery industry because she has qualifications from world class organisations in both bespoke jewellery design and handcrafting.

Instrumental to creating the highest quality of fine jewellery was her training at London’s Goldsmiths’ Centre, under Master Jewellers from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. This is one of the preeminent goldsmith bodies in the world. She also worked with one of the few remaining Masters in Maltese Filigree.

However, it was her avant-guarde education in Jewellery & Matal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, ranked in the top 1% worldwide, which truly set her artistic spirit free to explore how emotion can be designed into jewellery. 

Artistic Background and Influences

Sculpture was her gateway into the world of jewellery design, and her talent had already been recognised with her life-sized female forms being exhibited internationally, evoking strong emotional responses.

Her influences are also truly international. Growing up and studying art in France, she was surrounded by contemporary galleries, world famous art museums, antiques, fashion and elegance. Living in cosmopolitan London offered exposure to further artistic and cultural influences. 

When Tara Lois moved to study at DJCAD in Scotland, Dundee had been named the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design which was celebrated by the opening of the V&A Dundee Design Museum. Here she had the freedom to explore how to design emotions into jewellery.

Now, her studio in Gozo, Malta, serves as both her creative santuary and offers a dialogue with the stunning rugged landscape and the surrounding Mediterranean sea.

In Tara Lois’ creative universe she interweaves artistic sculptural creativity, mastery of fine jewellery materials, expertise in ancestral and modern jewellery techniques, and her unique ability to express intense emotions and memories through sensitive design.

Tara Lois’ Aesthetic

Tara Lois’ jewellery eludes typical categorisation.

Conceptual art jewellery, like abstract contemporary art, is at one extreme of jewellery design. The idea and thought behind the jewellery takes precedence. The materials used to create this type of jewellery are rarely precious and it is not always wearable.

Conversely, traditional retail jewellery focuses on what is easy to sell at a profit, with a focus is on wearability. These designs tend to be less adventurous, and this style of jewellery looks perfectly made, as if machine manufactured, which much of it is.

Tara Lois’ jewellery falls between these extremes. Her designs are conceptual in that they are one-of-a-kind pieces, jewellery that tells a story and embodies emotions, but they are also wearable and made from precious materials.

She believes passionately that her work should be recognised as handmade, and never finished to look manufactured. Her goal is that the craftsmanship which she invests in the creation of her jewellery, is valued as much as her design style.

In a world increasingly enamoured with the unique, Tara Lois designs more than jewellery. She creates fragments of the soul meticulously crafted through a fusion of ancestral wisdom and innovative creativity. She creates the heirlooms of the future.