With a professional jade jewellery metalworking background, Jade Hsu is the founder and art director of Taiwan-based Art Jade Jewellery. Engaged in the jade industry for over four decades, he has dedicated to the creation of high-end jadeite jewellery collections which intermingle with Chinese Zen Buddhism culture. From rough jadeite manufacturing to delicate metalsmith, artistic setting and techniques, Hsu integrates his emotions, life experience, and humanistic thoughts into the whole process of jewellery making, giving jadeite jewellery spirituality and art vitality.
Jadeite has been widely loved by Chinese as the noble and understated qualities of this precious gemstone are perfectly in harmony with the Eastern culture. Targeting the Greater China and overseas Chinese collectors markets, Art Jade Jewellery’s designs highlight the Zen Buddhism spirit of metalsmith and the designer’s aesthetic attainment. Jade Hsu said that jadeite is a spiritual treasure. The more you understand it, the more you love it. In order to make jadeite and its connection with Chinese culture known by more people, Hsu composes poems for each piece of his jewellery, revealing the original intentions, the stories behind them and their life philosophic theories, which brings back his childhood memory of helping temple pilgrims uncover fortune slips’ meanings. During that period, the experience aroused his keen interest in exploring the stories and intentions behind fortune slips and composing poems thereafter.
Hsu told Hong Kong Jewellery that everything has its own arrangement and purpose just like his creations are made spontaneously. “Honed and digested through years, I have gradually begun combining the jadeite design journey with art and culture, in virtue of my speciality accomplishment,” he said. He also established the ‘Moyuren Jadeite Art Museum’ which displays his jewellery creations for collectors, indicating the epitome of Chinese culture in jadeite and its evolving and transformative beauty.
Hsu explained that his jadeite jewellery artworks are the result of time which have irreplaceable style. Time is the motivation of creating beauty. Only with time will those creations possess multi-layered beauty, while style is the fusion of life background and personal emotions. “Style is a passer-by of time. The most important is to put true emotions into creations, which as a result generates better outcomes,” he noted.
Design is the heart of jewellery, which delivers inner feelings of the designer. Having felt that contemporary jadeite jewellery still remains in a state of homogeneous manufacturing and design without uniqueness or artistic creation, Hsu analysed: “In jadeite jewellery design, we need to spend a long time understanding our culture and feelings. What’s more, the high-value materials and the limited sources impede designers’ path to artistic creation.”
Hsu selects materials based on texture and colour, and uses rare materials to create jewellery with Zen Buddhism spirit. He never sketches his design; instead, he makes his jewellery by intuition, experience and “the loving heart for jadeite” which is a fun process.
As for the future development of jadeite jewellery, he estimates that the mainstream trend will be personalised and customised jewellery with distinct style and exquisite craftsmanship. For the company, their main plan is to pass on Chinese culture and humanistic thoughts, establish a persuasive ‘Jadeite Cultural and Creative Jewellery Museum’ with rich cultural heritage, and elevate the level of consumers’ growth in spiritual aspect and their art insight. (Photo courtesy: Art Jade Jewellery)
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