The application of composite materials in contemporary jewelry teaching

In Europe and the United States, more and more graduate students of jewelry design major set up personal studio after graduation, and in their studio engaged in the design and manufacture of mixed media jewelry.Among them there are many famous designers such as Tabea reulecke, Suzanne Smith, Ramon puig cuyas, Polly wales etc.At home, mixed media jewelry open market in recent years, In Shanghai art gallery and salon, we can watch some jewelry with special composite material such as butterfly wings, fibers silica gel, animal skins, the new paper, etc.These jewelry works have exquisite workmanship and visual sense art.They pay more attention to forms of aesthetic feeling, design concept and the designer's individuality.Their material is different from expensive fine jewelry which pay more attention to the artistic quality and inner spiritual value, these jewelry works slowly walked into the heart of people with its creation story.Mixed media jewelry, as it were, as a new creative expressing form of jewelry, get the more increasing attention by domestic jewelry designers and consumers.