What prompted you to take up jewellery making?
It proved to be the most comfortable way to materialise my dreams and unleash my fantasy: I create little stories, not jewellery. Most jewellery says nothing, I make my pieces talk. They move, ignite people's imagination and are carried with them in their best moments: I want the jewellery to make them dream.
What are the most significant events in your career?
Once I unexpectedly won the audience award in a rather large exhibition of designer jewellery abroad: it was a great pleasure and recognition. A few years ago, a gallery owner from Australia came to Sofia specifically to see me: I soon realised that there are easier ways to pay for heating and electricity besides robbing a bank!
© Simeon Shomov
Do you imagine who might be wearing your jewellery?
Certainly a dreamer, with a wild imagination. Perhaps someone who loves to drink wine and watch the sunset from the beach or from the terrace of a cosy house in the mountains. Someone who likes going to the theatre and hates wearing a Covid-19 mask when you can never tell if they are smiling or not.
Which are your favourite techniques, materials and colours?
They vary every day. Today, for example, was some hellishly hard pebble that ruined my diamond drill. I really like dark oxidation, especially when there is a fracture, it is very well detected in oxidised jewellery.