Born in Lithuania and based in Berkshire, England, Agneta Bugyte works with diamonds and precious metal branches to create jewelry that is at once elegant and comfortable to wear. Using patination and etching techniques that alter the surface color and texture of the metals, she makes fine jewelry in which matte black silver contrasts with highly polished 18-karat raw gold grains. Bugyte finds inspiration in the rawness and silence of nature, and her one-of-a-kind pieces speak of the natural textures wrought by earth and fire, of lava and glass-smooth molten flows of metal.
