Liana Katsuki

Liane Katsuki was born in Entre Ríos, Bahia, Brazil and currently lives in the Netherlands. She previously lived in France, Brazil, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain.

Liane is a multidisciplinary artist with more than three hundred group and solo exhibitions since 1972. Her work can be found in major museums and private collections, and she has also won numerous international awards.

She began her artistic training as a painter at the School of Fine Arts in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1970s. After studying Fine Arts, she completed her training at the art academies of Paris and Toulouse (France), as well as general art history at the Louvre School (Paris).

She is more passionate about the world of the third dimension than the world of the two dimensions. That is why she started making small sculptures, which were nothing more than sculptural jewels. She started her training as a jeweller at La École des Filles in Paris. Since then, she has mainly devoted herself to the magical world of design jewellery and sculpture. She expanded her knowledge of jewellery in Toulouse with Rick Skatula and in Emmen (Netherlands) with Hans Keen. In the Netherlands, she perfected her sculpting techniques in the studio of Noud de Wolf and her stained-glass techniques in the studios of Lico Glasatelier and Broeder Aquino.

She also provided services to important designers, including the famous Frenchman Pierre Cardin, with designs for a spring/summer collection.

She has always striven to renew and retrain herself by working with other skilled professionals in their workshops or in monographic courses. In this way, she learned new techniques, but she always tries to maintain her own style.

In recent years, she has mainly focused on design jewellery in precious metals, with or without gemstones, and sculptures in bronze, steel, corten steel, aluminium and other materials, from small to monumental dimensions.

From 2002 to 2017, she was president of the national organization of jewellery designers “Asociación Joyas de Autor (AJA)” in Spain and is currently its honorary president. She has also recently been appointed honorary member of the MUBRI (Mujeres Brillantes, “Brilliant Women”) in Spain, a large organization of female jewellery designers.

Her style, if it may be said so, is sculptural. She treats her jewels as mini sculptures, while always respecting the functional side that belongs to a jewel. She usually presents exclusive, high-quality pieces with their own identity, supported by authenticity, design and elegance. Unique pieces or limited series, very refined volume pieces, often characterized by a modular personality.

She likes to use precious materials in her jewellery: silver and gold, natural stones that enhance the design of the jewel with their colours and faceting.

The material used must be in accordance with the design. It is like a dialogue between matter and the creator. She particularly likes the warm combination of gold (yellow or pink) and silver. The precious stones because of their natural beauty and colours.

For her, a piece of jewellery is a work of art, a mini sculpture with an additional beautifying function. A mini-sculpture and therefore a work of art in small format.

She mainly uses the criterion of beauty and purity of form. Always with the idea of ​​creating a work of art that radiates beauty and creativity.

Both the jewellery and the sculptures of Liane Katsuki are often characterised by their modular nature: the units created by the artist each consist of two or three elements: elements that integrate, connect and complement each other. She masters the materials and techniques, combines elements, creates volumes, compact or light with built-in openings; a fabric in three dimensions.