Kukla - what a doll !
Michelle Basharel’s artistic career started when she was just a young child making artifacts with a friend and selling them. It was the very same friends, who many years later, in 2001 taught her jewelry designing and encouraged her to start creating her own jewelry and finding her unique saying in the field. In fact, art had always taken part in her world, even in her years in high-tech. Michelle managed many projects but she always loved building and designing websites and this is how she built her own website “Kukla Jewelry”: “Working on the website inspired me to continue and develop my passion to design jewelry”, says Michelle. Michelle’s sources of inspiration vary but what lies as a thread to connect all her designs is the emphasis on keeping a very feminine and delicate line: “my inspiration is more intuitive and comes in the forms of muses”, says Michelle, ” I connect to womanhood and delicacy and it shows in my designs – even if a piece of jewelry is more heavily designed there will always be a gentle and feminine element, in the colors or the deign itself” and you can see it clearly in the lovely pair of earrings shown here.
The clear guideline for Michelle is creating unique quality jewelry in affordable prices. She uses Swarovsky crystals in her designs as well as different gemstones and sweet water pearls. Michelle had also designed a unique line for brides with many designs combining high quality freshwater pearls that every bride would be happy to wear on her special day. Another unique line designed by Michelle is based on different gemstones and most of the jewels in this collection are one-of-a kind and so they are not featured on her website. So, what is “Kukla”? you must be wondering. One of many explanations, in Russian and one form of Spanish, is “doll”: “my father used to call me kukla when I was a child and it just follows me from back then…” says. You can find other interpretations on Michelle’s impressive website, which also contains many articles on pearls and gemstones and, of course, the beautiful jewelry Michelle makes. I can hardly wait for the new site coming soon…
Kukla – jewelry by Michelle Basharel
Article Written By: Rotem Jewelry Blog September 30th,2007 5:42 p.m