From an idea to a piece of jewellery
My fascination with jewellery began long before ECLIPSA.
At fifteen, I already knew I wanted to become a jewellery designer. I went on to study the technology of artistic metalworking at university, bringing together the two things I loved most: creativity and engineering.
Over the next eight years, I designed jewellery for people living in entirely different worlds. Some pieces cost as much as an apartment. Others were affordable even on a student's budget.
That experience taught me something that would eventually become the foundation of ECLIPSA:
The most valuable part of a piece of jewellery is the idea behind it.
After moving to Finland in 2022, I began exploring how to bring together my experience in jewellery design with my love of illustration, storytelling and human psychology.
That's how ECLIPSA began to take shape.
Every design begins with a question
When I create jewellery, I rarely start by thinking about what would look beautiful. I start with something I want to explore.
Take Cassiopeia, for example.
I was thinking about the contradictory expectations placed on women. Be beautiful, but don't be too aware of it. Be confident, but never arrogant. Be strong, but never intimidating.
That brought me to the Greek myth of Cassiopeia, a queen punished for boasting about her beauty. Her story made me wonder: where does confidence end and vanity begin? And who gets to decide?
From that question, the design began to emerge.
Cassiopeia is also the name of a constellation, so I turned to the night sky for inspiration. Black spinel became the darkness of space. Small white pearls became distant stars. A luminous pearl pendant became the moon, while delicate silver-toned chains gave the necklace a regal silhouette.
Every material, every detail and every contrast became part of the story.
This is how I approach jewellery design: turning questions, emotions and ideas into something you can see, touch and wear.
Why an eclipse?
An eclipse brings light and shadow together in a single moment.
To me, it reflects something deeply human: our ability to be strong and vulnerable, generous and selfish, confident and insecure — sometimes all at once.
I've always been fascinated by the complexity of people, especially those who are too easily labelled as heroes or villains. Our personalities are shaped by experiences, circumstances and contradictions that rarely fit into simple categories.
This idea runs through ECLIPSA's collections.
SUN explores the vibrant, passionate and expressive sides of our personalities, including the qualities that can be both our strengths and our weaknesses.
MOON turns towards vulnerability, self-protection, uncertainty and the parts of ourselves we sometimes struggle to understand or reveal.
BURNOUT CHIC approaches the pressures of modern life through irony and dark humour. Inspired by conversations about psychology and emotional exhaustion, the collection uses familiar frustrations as a starting point for conversations that can be difficult to begin.
Together, the collections reflect different experiences of being human.
Imperfect by nature
I love natural gemstones for the same reason I'm fascinated by people: their individuality.
Inclusions, unusual patterns and subtle irregularities give each stone its own character. Two stones may belong to the same family, yet each carries a slightly different history written into its surface.
These details often become part of my designs, adding another layer of meaning to the stories they tell.
One person.
Many sides.
Endless stories.