Lena Esaulova

Lena Esaulova is a jewellery designer and artist based in London, UK.

Before doing jewellery Lena was a film costume and props designer and this experience brings a sophisticated narrative dimension to her jewellery design, transforming each piece into a purposeful storytelling. Her commitment to craftsmanship and meaning ensures that every creation is not just an accessory but a part of an enduring story, resonating with depth and character.

Her first collection playfully reimagined everyday items, integrating parts of Victorian jewellery as focal points. This method of incorporating antique and vintage jewellery into new creations became her signature artistic approach. Today, her jewellery pieces are more intricate, straddling the line between wearable art and sculpture.

She describes her work as recycling and upscaling jewellery, but it transcends merely giving old pieces a new life. She runs two brands — E2J and LENAGINARIUM.

E2J — is a collection of necklaces, rings, and pendants reimagines traditional hand and serpent patterns found in Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian jewellery, imbuing each piece with fresh meaning and artistic depth.

For the LENAGINARIUM, working with significant elements of antique and vintage jewellery, the artist transforms them into contemporary pieces with new meanings. She uses old French cameos and intaglios, Italian micro mosaic plates, coral beads, and other components of pre-loved jewellery, imbuing them with fresh ideas and interpretations.

Operating at the intersection of art and the fine plasticity of jewellery forms, she experiments with techniques to transform the form, meaning, and sometimes functionality of the pieces. Her artistic exploration extends beyond traditional dimensions; a brooch might metamorphose into a sautoir, then into a bracelet, or even become part of a sculpture that can be worn as a necklace.