THE NAME
Why the name Delacroix?
I see a lot of designers who use their name or some part of their name in a clever way, but mine just didn’t lend itself to anything that I liked. For a long time, I have been searching for a name that was timeless, elegant, catchy, something that made me go, “Ah-ha, that’s it!”
On a recent trip to New York, my wife and I went to the Met for the first time. The best part of that day was discovering Eugene Delacroix. As I walked through the exhibit taking in Delacroix’s voluminous work, it didn’t occur to me right away why I was so moved, so captivated. As it so often works with us, my wife must have been on the same wave length as me. She came up to me through about the middle of the exhibit and said, “Babe, it’s like you are the reincarnation of this guy. You even look alike.”
The breadth of his subjects and mediums was staggering. Delacroix was a master painter, an illustrator, a writer; he drew his inspiration from the masters, from his peers, from other artistic mediums like composers, the literary classics, the politics of his time, his passions. Part of the exhibit was several books of his hand-written journaling that he kept throughout his life. I have studied his work and his writing closely since that day at the Met and in the course of doing so, I had that “Ah-ha” moment. It’s like a contentment settled over me. I just knew that Delacroix was the name I had been searching for.
The name Delacroix represents the soul of what I want to convey in my jewelry – restless imagination. During his time, Delacroix defied convention. He wasn’t satisfied by simply mimicking his teachers or peers just so he could sell this or that painting. He said, “[A] great number of talented artists had never done anything worthwhile because they surround themselves with a mass of prejudices, or had them thrust upon them by the fashion of the moment.” My mind is open to influence from any source and the product of my imagination will have no limit. The name Delacroix reminds me to stay true to my own voice and style. For people who wear a Delacroix piece, the name should invoke a feeling of passion and individual expression. I want people to feel the exhilaration and satisfaction of creating and wearing a piece of jewelry that is quite literally unique, and therefore special.
Delacroix followed his passions to arrive at his best works. In his own words, “[t]here is an old leaven working in me, some black depth that must be appeased. Unless I am writhing like a serpent in the coils of a pythoness I am cold. I must recognize this and accept it, and to do so is the greatest happiness. Everything good that I have ever done has come about in this way.” His passions were the seed of his creativity; they were the genesis of his great works. I have found this same pattern to be the case with my art work.
Like Delacroix’s work during his life, the sources of my inspiration, my subjects, the mediums that I work with and my style will grow and vary. Some people will love what I create and some may not, but every Delacroix piece will be in motion toward the great works of my future – “toward the unattainable.”
THE NAME
Why the name Delacroix?
I see a lot of designers who use their name or some part of their name in a clever way, but mine just didn’t lend itself to anything that I liked. For a long time, I have been searching for a name that was timeless, elegant, catchy, something that made me go, “Ah-ha, that’s it!”
On a recent trip to New York, my wife and I went to the Met for the first time. The best part of that day was discovering Eugene Delacroix. As I walked through the exhibit taking in Delacroix’s voluminous work, it didn’t occur to me right away why I was so moved, so captivated. As it so often works with us, my wife must have been on the same wave length as me. She came up to me through about the middle of the exhibit and said, “Babe, it’s like you are the reincarnation of this guy. You even look alike.”
The breadth of his subjects and mediums was staggering. Delacroix was a master painter, an illustrator, a writer; he drew his inspiration from the masters, from his peers, from other artistic mediums like composers, the literary classics, the politics of his time, his passions. Part of the exhibit was several books of his hand-written journaling that he kept throughout his life. I have studied his work and his writing closely since that day at the Met and in the course of doing so, I had that “Ah-ha” moment. It’s like a contentment settled over me. I just knew that Delacroix was the name I had been searching for.
The name Delacroix represents the soul of what I want to convey in my jewelry – restless imagination. During his time, Delacroix defied convention. He wasn’t satisfied by simply mimicking his teachers or peers just so he could sell this or that painting. He said, “[A] great number of talented artists had never done anything worthwhile because they surround themselves with a mass of prejudices, or had them thrust upon them by the fashion of the moment.” My mind is open to influence from any source and the product of my imagination will have no limit. The name Delacroix reminds me to stay true to my own voice and style. For people who wear a Delacroix piece, the name should invoke a feeling of passion and individual expression. I want people to feel the exhilaration and satisfaction of creating and wearing a piece of jewelry that is quite literally unique, and therefore special.
Delacroix followed his passions to arrive at his best works. In his own words, “[t]here is an old leaven working in me, some black depth that must be appeased. Unless I am writhing like a serpent in the coils of a pythoness I am cold. I must recognize this and accept it, and to do so is the greatest happiness. Everything good that I have ever done has come about in this way.” His passions were the seed of his creativity; they were the genesis of his great works. I have found this same pattern to be the case with my art work.
Like Delacroix’s work during his life, the sources of my inspiration, my subjects, the mediums that I work with and my style will grow and vary. Some people will love what I create and some may not, but every Delacroix piece will be in motion toward the great works of my future – “toward the unattainable.”
