Gold & Platinum Brooch II, Modi Series 2, 2018

Dieny also wears Gold & Platinum Earrings and Gold & Platinum Brooch I both from Modi Series 2.

The Gallery has represented contemporary jeweller Jacqueline Mina since the 1980s. A Lecturer at the Royal College of Art from 1972 until 1994, she has made a significant contribution to art education. Winner of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Jewellery in 2000, Mina also received an OBE for services to Art in 2012.

‘The work of Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) has held a recurring fascination for me ever since, at Art School in the 1960s, we were encouraged to study what was then considered ‘Modern Art’. The way he was able to stylize figures and heads by employing such apparently simple lines, while still communicating the figurative subjects of his Art, remains a mystery to me. His lines speak of a designer’s approach, much as in the work of Ben Nicholson, particularly in Modigliani’s preparatory sketches for sculptures. I have always been drawn to this kind of reduction in form & line and, without consciously copying it, my own work certainly can be described as inheriting this abstract style.’ – Jacqueline Mina