Eva Fernandes Martos is a jewellery artist and designer living and working in the UK. Eva’s engineering background blends with her traditional upbringings in rural Spain. Technology and traditional crafting are latent in her process producing unexpected outcomes. With her work, Eva tries to make people appreciate the ordinary and our man-made surroundings by stimulating their curiosity and perception.
What was the inspiration for your Steinbeisser pieces?
The Shared Plates dishes explore the idea of sharing food through physically interconnecting and merging dishware items. This produces far-fetched possibilities of a dish that challenges the presentation and negotiation of food.
Describe your work in 3 words!
Playful. Simple. Nostalgic.
What kind of materials do you use and where do you get them from?
For this project I used sycamore wood from English woodlands.
Which conscious lifestyle choices are you making and are you considering any new ones?
Buy less, reuse, upcycle, recycle, donate, and do more.
What have you rebelled against in the past and what are you rebelling against now?
I think I have always rebelled against the status quo. I don’t like the idea of following the norm.