Smaranda Isar is a versatile artist who blends silversmithing with diverse ceramic materials and techniques to create contemporary jewelry and art pieces. Her practice challenges the boundaries of traditional jewelry-making while remaining deeply rooted in natural materials, which she transforms into carriers of meaning—objects that convey emotions, tell stories, and spark cultural dialogue.
She grew up in her parents’ etching studio, where she developed an early fascination with artistic processes and symbolic expression. In 2017, she graduated from the National University of Arts Bucharest and later refined her skills in silversmithing at Assamblage School.

Her artistic projects often explore the complexity of human relationships, with particular attention to psychology and the ways in which symbols can translate emotions and experiences into tangible forms.
Working across silversmithing, ceramics, and mixed media, she creates jewelry and objects that serve as both personal narratives and universal metaphors. Smaranda has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Munich Jewelry Week 2024, Romanian Jewelry Week, and Slovenian Jewelry Week 2025.

Smaranda Isar explores jewelry as a symbolic language, a medium through which psychological and cultural narratives become tangible. Working with silversmithing and ceramics, she treats materials as vessels of memory and meaning, shaping them into objects that invite reflection and dialogue. Rather than serving as mere adornment, her creations function as poetic forms that embody emotions, archetypes, and hidden aspects of the self.

Her collection “Drives” invites us to pause amidst chaotic rhythms and consider the unconscious impulses that shape behavior. Each piece is conceived as an archetype or myth, designed to spark recognition within the wearer. By integrating these hidden forces into awareness, they can become catalysts for self-discovery and dialogue.
Drawing from mythology and psychology, Smaranda explores how desires, fears, and inner conflicts manifest as deities or mythological figures—forces at once creative and destructive. Like the gods and heroes of myth, these drives inspire and motivate, yet also provoke chaos when left unexamined. Her work transforms jewelry into a mirror of the psyche, offering intimate encounters with the unseen layers of human experience.