Begoña Rentero is a visual artist, jewellery designer, and interior architect who lives and works in Granada, Spain. Her creativity was awakened in childhood, shaping her artistic vision.

With her multidisciplinary training, her work is characterised by the use of colour, a balance of shapes, and contrasts. Through her creations, she aims to convey a sense of vital intensity. By applying the concept of her pictorial work to her designs, and using paper for its malleability, lightness, ability to absorb colours, and simplicity, she creates unique pieces.

Begoña Rentero’s jewellery, primarily in organic shapes, generates movement and features strong colour contrasts. Her intention is to convey both vitality and delicacy, as well as suggestion.

She works with various materials such as paper, silk, wool, cotton, and linen. In her search for new possibilities, she explores the use of different materials and treatments. She creates her own colour palette by mixing natural pigments, achieving the vibrant colours that distinguish her work. Begoña Rentero feels a strong need to create jewellery that is both delicate and resistant.

She often spends considerable time developing a concept or germinal idea. Creating the movement along with the shape, she allows colour to emerge once these elements are defined. She believes that beauty resides in the small and everyday, and that it can emerge at any time or place.

Her artistic progression has been towards the unknown and the imperfect, as a path of learning. She has left behind the desire for immediacy, seeking the calm that resides in the patina of time. The rhythm that vibrates in asymmetries, the wear that speaks of what has been lived, and the old as the pinnacle of beauty. She finds harmony in what we cannot control, and respect for the seemingly defeated.

Dried flower petals, faded colours, lightness evolving towards the ephemeral. A gesture, a reflection, a shadow, a memory, smoke… For this reason, she is drawn to working with irregular, asymmetric shapes and undefined colours, close to nature itself, rescuing decaying plant elements. She gives them a new life, highlighting their beauty, as it lies in the eye of the beholder, not in the object itself.

Her creative restlessness lies in the search for nuances, silence in form, and intimate mysticism that allows her to express more than what is created. One could say that her intention is to capture the soul of the material.

“Nature, as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, blending with it, approaching it to grasp how much we need to unlearn. I still remain true to my slogan: They are so light that you have to touch them to know you are wearing them... And for me, the search becomes something both everyday and sublime.”

Begoña Rentero’s work is sold in over eighty art galleries and museums across Europe, Australia, Japan, and the United States. She participates in various jewellery events, including the annual MAD About Jewelry exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She also takes part in specialised fairs such as Curate in New York, Artistar Jewels in Milan, and fashion fairs like MBMadrid Fashion Week in Madrid.

Additionally, she designs exclusive collections for various museums, created for specific exhibitions. One example is her most recent collection for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, designed for the Gabriele Münter exhibition. For her, this represents an adventure in which she explores the life and work of the artist, creating a piece with two souls—her own and that of the artist.

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Begoña's earliest childhood memories revolve around colours and their nuances, the whimsical shapes she discovered in nature—stones, branches, pieces of glass, forgotten and discarded objects. She has always been drawn to the language of shapes and textures, and to a pictorial universe beyond words.

For all these reasons, she feels a constant need to create in order to express sensations and emotions—those she experiences when contemplating the infinity that resides in nature. Whether through painting, design, or jewellery, her work serves as a reflection of this inner world.

She began working with paper due to her involvement with it in painting. Its softness and lightness fascinate her, as does its ability to absorb colours, along with its simplicity.

Her intention is to convey vital intensity, delicacy and strength, simplicity and sophistication—a dance of contrasts. She seeks expressions of surprise, even confusion, and wants those who wear her pieces to feel the certainty of donning something full of strength and enthusiasm—a kind of talisman that accompanies and enhances their beauty.

As for Begoña, it could be said that she feels like a free spirit—one who champions vitality and the constant search for dreams.

Begoña invites others to smile at life, to embrace freedom in their beauty, and to express their differences. For this reason, she would love for others to join her in her world of colour!