While I am always astonished by the genius of jewelry creation, sometimes I come across a style or a design aesthetic which leaves me impressed and curious in equal parts. This is what happened when I learnt about bespoke jeweler and owner at Aurelio Fine Metal Studio, Carlos Grobler, who is based in Ottawa. With everyone being in pandemic lockdown these days, I felt this was the right time to get in touch with Carlos and ask him for an interview.
Carlos is warm, generous and brings these personal qualities into his perception of jewelry design and jewelry manufacturing. Being dyslexic, and being raised on a farm, he has always been hands on. His medium for creativity and emotion, rather than writing with words, was to become the designing and making of jewelry. His jewelry captured my attention because it literally speaks through its beauty. On our telephone conversation, when I asked Carlos how he was keeping busy during our pandemic lockdown, he promptly sent me photographs of a 1820s French wooden carved mirror, famous as a Dauphin mirror of carved dolphins topped by a French ribbon which he was restoring by hand, carving the missing pieces washed away by time and travel!