Anastasia
Koutsampela is an eminent attorney at law as well as a passionate Greek artist,
always ready to fall in love with a new design project.
In a digital world where everything is
dominated by computers, Anastasia remains faithful to the traditional processes
of design, creating jewelry made exclusively by hand.
Following the ancient art of jewelry casting,
she designs every single piece in her sketch book and afterwards she creates
the wax molds where silver will be poured, in order to transform the abstract
idea of a ring or a pendant into a masterpiece of jewelry.
For Anastasia, besides the quality of the
craftsmanship worked to a flawless finish, jewelry is a representation of
communication and therefore symbolisms have been an integral part of her
designs. Her pieces speak about the human interaction and are disguised with
secret meanings and myriads of interpretations.
Anastasia’s work has been featured in the
Greek press and group art exhibitions and now is travelling across Europe in
order to meet new fellow companions.
She is the founder of Lefflow Art Studio, her
signature brand, inspired by the fact that she is a left handed designer.
Membership
@ A Jewel Made In Greece
PARTICIPATION
-A JEWEL MADE IN GREECE & INSPIRING
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
6TH ANNUAL DESIGNERS ’ MEETING 2019
Zappeio , Athens, Greece, Feb.2019
-Trunk Show Summer 2018 with A Jewel Made In
Greece, participation to Jewelry
Exhibition @ Plaza Resort Hotel,
@ Gallery Akropropo –Spetses, @ Celestyal Olympia - cruise ship
- @ DIVANI APOLLON PALACE & THALASSO,
Vouliagmeni, Attiki, Greece
-Who’s Next, Paris, France, Jan. 2019
-Milan Fashion Week, Milan, Italy, Apr. 2019
-Trunk Show Summer 2019 with A Jewel Made In
Greece @Petasos Beach Resort & Spa Mykonos
MILESTONE
Awarded (2nd prize), category Solid Metals, @A
Jewel Made In Greece competition
Partisipation at the exhibition "Fruits and Symbols" at the Nomismatic Museum, Athens, Greece (23/05 - 31/10/2019)
The Panspermia Collection
Inspiration
Inspired from the participation of the exhibiton "Fruits and Symbols" at the Nomismatic Museum, Athens, Greece.
The Antikythera
Collection
Inspiration
Inspired by the extraordinary ancient mechanism,
Anastasia Koutsampela created the Antikythera Collection.
She experiments
with the universal idea of time, trying to transform its rigid reference frame
to an object of art, full of plasticity and semantic interpretation.
Considering there is no natural gear in nature, these
round toothed objects, with their synchronized impulse transmitting motion, are
one of the most revolutionary discoveries of humanity.
Observing for years the different shapes, functionally
and use, she discovered a charming inspirational world.
Αnastasia΄s gears symbolize the motion equating life
to evolution and to creation. The gears represent artistically the continuous
evolving flow of humanity.
The gears are minimal and abstract and when combined
together they create a whole of new form, such flowers, wings, crown.
Every gear tooth or cog is designed by hand, beginning
with a sketch and then is shaped and modeled in wax. Afterwards, she starts to
assemble the silver, cutting and bonding together the individual pieces.
Αnastasia uses a unique structure based on
perspective, without the use of computer of graphic design software.
Bodies in touch
Inspiration
Simplicity, geometry, abstraction, modernism, as
subconscious streams of inspiration, blended and attributed to shapes that
represent the contact of human bodies.
This collection consists of human figures, which were
sometimes rendered with gentle curves, like those of the human body and
sometimes with geometric polygonal shapes. They aspire to transform the metal
into emotion and small scale sculptures that represent, with simplicity and
visual abstraction, the contact of human bodies.
The choice of two colors symbolizes the diversity, the
coexistence of the different elements in nature, but also the attraction of the
eteronymes…
Each of these forms tells the manifestations of human
contact… the endless demand, the finding of which gives wings, its loss causing
sinking in the dark, hypocrisy bringing denial, prudence keeps it, apathy kills
it, betrayal nullifies it… as history follows its cyclical course in time with
the constant intersection of people and cultures…
Infinity
Inspiration
The infinity symbol, as a philosophical concept,
creates a game of allegory for creation, art and existence.
In art, design perspective uses the concept of
imaginary vanishing points or points in infinity.
On the other hand, in its romantic dimension, this
symbol refers to internal love. Thus, for the creator of the collection 2018…
transmutes into the symbol of infinity, unleashing the limitless potential of
human imagination, so that it channels feelings through art.
In this collection a single pattern was used to create
different shapes and a series of jewels with a unique identity.
