Sopot Decor is Sylwia’s studio in Sopot, where since 2022 she has been making pictures, decorations and jewellery from sea glass – frosted pieces of glass smoothed for years by waves and sand. Sylwia chooses every piece carefully for its shape and colour. You’ll find her pictures and jewellery at Locus Artis in Gdańsk.
It all began during her maternity leave, when Sylwia started collecting sea glass on walks with her child. Together with a friend she searched online for what, besides jewellery, could be made from it. They liked the pictures best, so Sylwia decided to try her hand. Customers came sooner than she expected.
Nothing in her work is accidental. Whether a piece of glass goes into jewellery or a picture, Sylwia picks it with care: the shape and the harmony have to be right, and the colours have to complement each other and make a whole. In her frames, sea glass becomes birds on a real twig, turtles, trees and stacks of stones.
The glass in her work comes from Poland, but also from Barcelona and Scotland, and every colour has a past: navy blue was once medicine bottles, grey was once television picture tubes. Green, white and brown are the most common finds, while red and orange are among the rarest in the world. Sylwia also loves to talk about “pirate” glass, which looks like a black stone on the beach and shows its colour only under a strong torch.
What she brought to Locus Artis.
Sylwia brought sea glass pictures and jewellery to Locus Artis. From this delivery she would pick the multicoloured earrings for herself – she likes things that are unusual and one of a kind.
Every piece of sea glass has a story. It was once part of a vase that graced someone’s home, or a bottle of someone’s favourite perfume. For years it battled waves and currents before the sea washed it up on the beach. Now, in a picture or a pair of earrings, as Sylwia puts it, “its story is still being written”.