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| Amethyst & Ceramic Lavender Earth Jewelry Set |
With its shantytowns, including Belén, and sprawling rain forest Iquitos’ natural wonders never fail to fascinate.
Peru is also the birthplace of featured jewelry designer Ubaldina Paucar Achancaray a/k/a Dina.
No matter the style, jewelers always bring something
personal to their jewelry collections.
Aspects of personality, patterns they see in nature or even how they
process circumstances of the world around them inform their creative musings.
In this light, I think ethnic jewelry reveals the pride a
jeweler has for his or her culture. For
me this niche reflects a jeweler’s self-acceptance and in particular the
designs always showcase a long tradition of a culture’s handicrafts. These factors truly imbue this vivacious
style with great idiosyncratic flair making it quintessential statement
jewelry.
Inspired by her painter father, Dina readily embraced her
creative stirrings. She learned and
excelled at hand loom weaving, ceramics, painting and jewelry making.
The vivid outlines and colors of her pendant necklaces and jewelry sets call upon her expertise with ceramics.
The vivid outlines and colors of her pendant necklaces and jewelry sets call upon her expertise with ceramics.
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| Ceramic Vicuna Pendant Necklace |
“When I moved from Cuzco to an urban area I received a
nursing degree and worked as a nurse. I
had learned so many traditional handicrafts as a youth and I never really
strayed away from that.
I worked as a nurse until 1975 and I started working with
ceramics again. When I was a girl I
studied crafts at a school located near the Inthihuatana archaeological site,”
recalls the 59-year old. “I am proud of
my Peruvian heritage. My designs are
ancestral ones. Everything Peruvian is
in my hands.”
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| Ceramic Highland Forest Ceramic Jewelry Set |
However, only a small sampling of Dina's unique ceramic jewelry creations is available at ArtsyHome.com.
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