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Paula Ortega, jewellery designer-maker, first studied experimental electro-acoustic music and audio-visual communication and then worked for over a decade as a Web user experience designer. Paula Ortega brings these intangible but highly creative prior bodies of work to her jewellery designs.

Child of the Argentinean plains and attuned to the Metropolis in which she lives and works, Paula Ortega is inspired by strong aesthetics and simple pleasures. Coffee in the sunlit garden. Walking to her riverside studio. Creative phonecalls with clients. Vegetables that glow. Kinetic memory. Everything that tells a story.

As a self-taught jewellery designer-maker, Paula Ortega is relentlessly curious, precise and passionate about products and processes. Multidisciplinary training and a holistic outlook are Paula Ortega’s greatest assets in her life of design, and provide the setting for her grounded yet edgy aesthetic.

Paula Ortega is proud to run her practice in an ethical and sustainable way. The 100% recycled silver she uses is from traceable sources, she is committed to substituting toxins in the jewellery-making process with ecologically-sound alternatives wherever possible, her studio is within walking distance from home, and even her packaging is recycled. Paula Ortega’s studio jewellery promotes beauty in harmony with the planet.