chloevalorso

Artist Residency Iceland week 1 - A Song for Stones
Being a hunter gatherer in the land of the Huldufolks. Under the guidance of Petra and Fish Factory

Mue.s // Sheds , the Witch’s mirror, 2026. A portal to our ongoing transformation.
It is the latest piece in my ongoing research on snake skins, second skins, shedding identities, transformation, transmutation…. Scroll to see its origins, the jewellery alter egoes and where it emerged, all the way back to the Royal College of Art when studying my MA RCA Jewellery and Metal MA and shamanic breathwork …

Revealing MAGICAL NATURALISM (I made a sculptural table!)
2026
Recycled bronze alloy, reclaimed Italian marble offcuts, botanical dye inks
60 × 63 × 65 cm
A portal-object embodying a fundamental relationship with nature. A reconnection through making, intended to re-enchant everyday life.
A coffee table emerging from a dream: the material embodiment of a liminal state, suspended between the real and the unreal, where stones become multicoloured and flowers are adorned with claws, teeth and spells—a work that invites a double reading.
The piece brings together my artistic, craft-based, holistic and conceptual research. It explores the hybridisation of materials, the dialogue between the living, the non-living and the more-than-living, while reinterpreting ancestral craft techniques through an experimental contemporary approach. In doing so, it opens towards a form of avant-garde craftsmanship capable of generating new material imaginaries.

Butterflies popping up in the workshop… Impermanence, dreams, in Greek : psyche means both soul and butterfly.

Magic mirror, bronze, cadavre exquis : flowers, lavender, seashell, shark teeth, dragonfly…unique piece, 2026
Tarot made during my residency in Italy with bdmma.paris Institut français
Intaglio learning with Silvia Bellia

Spiral Snail 🌀 🐌 , many symbols and echoes, carrying its home on its back : I Am Home .

Snaps from the foundry, work in progress of the latest sculptures.

The spiral is an ancient symbol of transformation. It appears in shells, whirlpools, fingerprints, tornadoes, galaxies… a geometry connecting the body to the cosmos.

The spiral teaches that life is not a straight line. We move in cycles, returning again and again to familiar landscapes, each time altered by experience. Birth, death, growth, decay, renewal. The same path, another turn.

The snail becomes a guide for this journey: patient, resilient, carrying its sanctuary within.

A creature that understands that becoming takes time.

Hybrid N4, cadavre exquis birds of paradise, shark vertebraes, spells and extracts from Donna Haraway’s Anthropocene. 2025, Holographic Patinated Bronze. 60x24x3cm

“ by the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short we are cyborgs” D H

Sigils, soldered in silver, one symbol, one word, one chain : one Spell. Pièce unique shot by .torino

Art Jewellery

Upcoming roar. A very special new animal is joining the Amulet tribe : the Lion.

It’s been a long time coming. Strange, maybe, because the lion has always been close to me, from its solar power, courage, protection, great hair… it’s been gravitating around my world for a while, waiting to take form.

And now it finally has, through a very special commission. Work in progress pictures of the wax sculpture.