Anne-Marie Chagnon

If playful, modular, jewellery made of fine pewter, glass and pvc is your style, Ann-Marie’s fashion-forward designs are for you. A graduate of Fine Arts at the University of Quebec at Montreal, her jewellery reflects her style – eccentric, aesthetic, intriguing and seductive.

“As a child, I recycled my mom’s jewels, making new ones by welding them with my dad’s tools. Today the materials have changed but the passion has remained intact, whole and bold.”

Unique, sculptural jewellery – each piece is meticulously hand-made, often demonstrating asymmetric equilibrium. Imperfect lines indeed – but perfectly imperfect.

Caprice Akram Jewellery

Drawing inspiration from nature and organic shapes, Caprice Akram designs simple but striking jewellery that will complement a woman’s many styles.

From her Toronto studio, Caprice creates timeless and feminine jewellery in silver and semi-precious stones. The warmth of carnelian, the shimmer of pearl, the Victorian elegance of black onyx – enhanced with a silver setting – designed by Caprice Akram to give your style a distinctive look.

Danielle O’Connor Jewellery

From her Thamesford, Ontario studio, award-winning Danielle O’Connor creates one-of-a-kind pieces of jewellery.

While studying at Georgian College in Barrie, Danielle was one of only 10 winners world-wide in the Young Designers Competition by Mikimoto Pearl Company. Her winning design was taken to the Bezel Fair in Europe.

Since graduating in 2001, Danielle has been busy creating her distinctive jewellery. Take, for instance, her fun bracelets made from old pieces of silverware. Each piece has its own distinct design with a carefully selected ornate handle and colourful beads. Her necklaces, earring and bracelets feature bold stones, clusters of semi-precious stones, pearls, all artistically styled on silver chains.

When Danielle is not designing, manufacturing and distributing her jewellery, she’s teaching at the local Creative Arts Centre and at galleries. Ah, the energy of youth.

Dominique Frechette

In her early 50s, Dominique Frechette decided to follow her bliss and dove into the world of jewellery making. After a career in advertising, marketing and fashion design, it was a natural move to learn the art of jewellery design and Dominique graduated with honours from jewellery school. Her pieces show it.

Unique creativity and vast experience show in Dominique’s line of contemporary jewellery handcrafted in anodized aluminum and semi-precious stones. Working with agate, quartz, turquoise, coral, lava, jasper, sea shell, pearl, glass and wood, each piece flows and curves to flatter the wearer  and show off the stones to their best advantage as well!

Liz Kain Jewellery

Located in Queen West – the heart of Toronto’s vibrant arts community – Liz Kain’s studio was established in 1994. Launching her company by featuring her signature Shakespearean collection – silver jewellery featuring famous Shakespearean quotes – Liz now has an extensive collection of sterling silver or silver and gold pieces, often with the addition of gemstones.

Drawing from a background in graphic design, Liz Kain’s jewellery is sculptural, whimsical, and visually engaging. Liz’s ongoing fascination with metal has led to a deep exploration of surface treatments. This is reflected in all of her collections. Collaborating with clients and identifying their desires, provides an ongoing inspiration for coming up with new and challenging designs.

If you’re an animal lover, Liz’s pendants, earrings, bracelets and pins will bring a smile to your face – featuring cats and dogs, birds, rabbits and fish – these fanciful jewellery pieces are great for those times when we just need to lighten up.

Liz’s jewellery is adornment in the best sense of the word.

Melluish Designs

Pakenham artists Pat and John Melluish are well-known for their beautiful earring designs – they have been creating them for 20 years.

Celtic designs, animals and insects, pearls and pastel beads, hoops and posts, delicate and dangly, in many different colours and styles – all hand-made of 14k gold filled or sterling silver wire, safe for sensitive ears…and sensitive wallets.

The Tima Collection

‘Jewellery for the Soul’ is the logo of Lucya Almeida’s jewelley ‘The Tima Collection. Lucya has been making jewellery for over 20 years, each piece crafted with love in her studio north-east of Toronto. Specializing in copper and semi-precious stones, the designs are influenced by Lucya’s interest in mythology, world religions and cultures and from her interest in stone healing properties.

Gems and stones are not only beautiful but are believed to carry special properties – they have been worn for thousands of years by the great cultures of the world from ancient Egyptians and Incas to present day Chinese and Native Americans. When your life, or some you care for, needs a bit of special care, a piece of jewellery from The Tima Collections is ideal for the soul.

White Lotus Design

White Lotus designer, Edina Racz, says she tries to create jewellery that is edgy but still pretty and timeless. Her background in design and fine art combined with her love of colour and nature are reflected in her work. Edina gets inspired by the jewels and materials and then works on the design – somewhat like a sculptor working in stone or wood – the raw materials inspire and dictate the final design.

Working from her bright and airy studio in Toronto, Edina creates her jewellery using classic sterling silver, semi-precious gemstones and other rare stones from around the world. Some of her favourite stones to work with are Tourmaline, Peridot, Yellow Jade, Turquoise and Amazonite – all beautifully crafted with sterling silver. Some of Edina’s stones are wire woven into pendants, earrings, and bracelets; others feature flora and fauna designs; or sleek and geometric designs incorporating gemstones and sterling silver.

Whether your style is light and feminine or contemporary and chic, each piece of White Lotus Design jewellery is individually crafted keeping colour, balance, structure and beauty in mind.

Exotic, unique, one-of-a-kind pieces – Edina’s collection is constantly changing.