ULTRA JEWELRY DESIGN BY JEFFREY APPLING
“DARING COMPOSITIONS AND BURST OF COLOR signal the passion that explodes in Jeffrey Appling’s jewelry. With every imaginative piece, he challenges himself to push the boundaries of contemporary fine jewelry forward. Whether his motivation is conceptual or technical in nature, his extraordinary skills as a jeweler allow him to create what he envisions, and the results are spectacular.”
-Alan Revere. Master goldsmith.
The “Hands to water” ring represents a mystical female figure touching and manipulating the water at will. She is opening a portal.
The flawless aquamarine, beryl is caved along the back creating a “bubbles in water” effect. An optical lens is carved out along the top, when viewing through the lens, the bubbles become magnified.
Water is natures purist gift to us. Vortices and cavitation are forces that are visible to us when observing water effects.
The blue topaz is carved along the back allowing for a dreamscape of internal bubbles. Bright green tsavorite garnets and blue diamonds randomly meander along the cuff bracelet.
In the 4th dimension there is no inertia. Time is just gravity stretching.
The large faceted and carved amethyst, quartz has 4 spinning gold spheres bead set with diamonds. Small rows of blue sapphires and green tsavorite come together and bind around an orange fire opal.
The way into the void (the 9th dimension) is by traveling from the third to the sixth and then to the ninth dimension (3,6,9). The fastest way to the void is to travel within.
The large center citrine, quartz has been drilled from the backside, within each drill hole is inserted a gemstone rod/core. The gem rods are placed at critical angles allowing for optimum internal reflection and refraction. A kaleidoscope of gems within a gem. Black and white diamonds representing positive and negative.
The “dream catcher” earring has a half moon cut diamond and a 5 point star cut diamond shooting from a midnight sky (drusy black onyx). The “balance” ring has a center bi-color tourmaline framed in both green and red gold. The “strobe” ring has multiple tapering gold cones capped with gems all radiating outward from a center point.
The “ american ingenuity” necklace and “evolution” necklace both have an explosive use of colored gemstones. The necklaces have large center gemstones strategically drilled along the back creating internal rod reflections. The large citrine quartz in the “evolution” necklace has drill holes injected with gemstone rods.
All gemstones are fully framed with precious metal. Framing allows a marriage between metal and stone where they become one.
Diamonds can be cut into many different shapes including horse head cut diamonds featured in the below platinum ring. Horse head cut and triangle shape diamonds are cut from a twinned rough diamond macle (octahedron turn on axis 180 degrees).
The platinum ring above contains a large 8 carat diamond and 144 small round diamonds bead set and bright cut.
The modern ballerina ring has a center brown diamond. The “reflect-o” ring has a large green tourmaline strategically placed to reflect green colors within the ring and a finger rest made in green gold with tsavorite.
The “pearl protrusion” ring has faceted cultured pearls with pink sapphire and green tsavorite garnet.
Anatomically correct fingers and hands help communicate the passion behind “rings that rock”.
Rebel elements made through heavy metal motivation.
Below is an example of a designer ring using a customers diamonds.
As a hidden hallmark on some designs, I incorporate small blue benitoite gemstones. When a short-wave UV light is exposed to the ring, the benitoite gems light up and glow brightly.
Benitoite will fluoresce a strong whitish blue under short-wave UV and blue sapphires do not fluoresce due to iron content.
All stones are well protected and rings are made to balance.
Crosslinking pigments of paint into the upper molecules of sterling silver allows for unique colorful coatings.
