Jewelry

Contact Information

Gravers Lane Gallery
8405 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 191
tel: 215-247-1603
www.graverslanegallery.net

tel: 215-834-8138
e-mail:
www.ziv-a.com
www.zivileart.etsy.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Bio

Artisan and adventurer Zivile Pupinyte creates wearable art for daring women. Using exotic stones and natural materials, Zivile’s meticulous handiwork and lucid creative process has yielded an eclectic collection of jewelry that is both fashionable and refreshingly unique. Her pieces lend adventurous spirit to haute couture.

Moving to Philadelphia from her native Vilnius, Lithuania seven years ago, Zivile has traveled all over the world accompanied by a fascination with natural materials and a passion for crafting jewelry honed in her childhood. Zivile’s process begins in a dream, finding inspiration in the shapes and colors that come to her in her sleep. Wide awake, she sets to work, arranging precious stones and weaving silver and precious metals to recreate the vision that came to her in her the night before. With no vision for the final project, without patterns or plans, she works until the individual creation tells her it is complete.

Zivile uses zebra jasper, carnelian, jade, garnets, labradorite, amber, seashells etc – anything she’s acquired in her travels. She also uses leather, distinctive fabric and lace. Zivile takes her inspiration from architecture juxtaposed with natural forms like plants and stone formations. Much of her jewelry is created with the intention that the piece be transformable. She makes each piece by hand, and plays with the different ways it could be worn to blend seamlessly into a garment or outfit or stand out alone as focal point. All of Zivile’s work is one-of-a-kind.

Artist Statement

Zivile Pupinyte, a self taught jewelry designer, was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania. Zivile Art jewelry collections are strictly hand made by Zivile Pupinyte and are one of a kind. Beaded jewelry with sterling silver and 14 karat gold filled is original and daring. Form, detail and different mediums like lava rock, coral, gold striped quartz, amber, black and red garnets are seen in her designs.

Organic but not crunchy, sculptural but not weighty, asymmetrical but balanced – that is Zivile Art. It is for daring women who are not afraid to be noticed and aim for complete beauty.

‘Every piece of my work is a part of me. It is alive and will be until I am. It is wearable, live sculpture.’
–Zivile Pupinyte

WHY?

‘Watching a pianist play has been always very fascinating to me. The way creativity, knowledge, notes, passion, emotion can be expressed by the movement of his fingers and the expression to be so real and touching peoples hearts.

My desk is my piano, my jewelry is the music i play.’
–Zivile Pupinyte