It's one of the great things I love in my job is when someone comes along and they say,

gosh, I didn't know Picasso made jewelry.

And you're like, yeah, well, you know, there's a lot of artists who made jewelry and many, many people don't know about it.

And it's really interesting. It's fascinating from an art point of view

and from a jewelry point of view.

And it's also, you know,

I just feel like not enough people know about this.

Jewelry is just another form of expression for an artist.

It's the effect it has on people.

And I can't believe that artists,

when they do artist jewelry,

they do not think about the effect they will have on people.

Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk.

I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewelry,

an author, broadcaster,

and the woman who initiated the role of Jewelry Editor at magazines like

Tapper and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone.

For people who do like jewelry, for people who don't realise they like jewelry, and anyone

intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas, and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales, meeting all sorts of people,

delving into four centuries of jewellery culture and investigate what's happening now.

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