About | Little Nothing - Paula Castro

Porto, in Portugal, is my city: where I was born and where I like to live. Mountains, Nature, ... is something from my deep soul and where I like to feel myself.

Little Nothing - Paula Castro, started in 2013 after I have taken the decision to change the course of my professional life. I have a degree in Psychology and I worked for 27 years in industrial companies, in the People management area.

In my last years, the company's principles and values changed and were against mine. This, was the main reason to have decided to change.

Art, aesthetic and sensitivity to what is around me, always have been present feeding my spirit.

I was attending jewelry training and a certain moment, I was so fascinated about it! At same time, I was so sad with the job I had that I decided to invest on my jewellery training.

So, I studied jewellery for two years and a new passion was born. My sensitivity became having shapes!

I have needed half a century to realize, that the way to Nature and to mountains could offer me much more than trekking, contemplation, fantastic findings and reflection time…..

Story's name

When I made my mind to change profession, the name's brand "Little Nothing - Paula Castro" come up in my mind immediatly,

There were two reasons for that: Since I was a child I collect leaves, flowers, twigs and stones from Nature's ground. So, I was sure I would like to work with raw Nature (they are "nothing").

The second reason was that I wanted to work in another direction that I used to work inside a company: I would like to share with the others the beauty of simple things, simple acts, transparency, freedom, lightness of beeing. To be and not to have.

I want to value the "little nothings" of Nature, warning the urgency of our planet conservation and contemplation as well as the importance of "small" gestures and actions from humans.

About my work

I create artistic and contemporary jewellery.

My inspiration comes from emotions and nature.

Organic, imperfect, simple, asymmetric, irregular, light, are some of my work features.

NATURE

To sensitize people for the importance to defend and protect Nature. Each one can wear as a jewel a small piece from Nature.

EMOTIONS

I do hope people enjoy wear the pieces and that they may cause some emotion.

FEELINGS

Let's allow ourself to feel the feelings that life gives us.

SIMPLICITY

I try to have simple design as well as natural materials – depending on market availability and/or recycled and from fair trade.

UNIQUE

Due the materials used and the way I work, each piece is unique or from a very small serie.

Unique, like each one of us!

My values

Exhibitions

- February 2014 – “Jewells on the Poem’s Way” – Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão (Porto, Portugal)

- February 2014 – “The Poem’s Movement” – Pinguim Café (Porto, Portugal)

- March 2014 – “From the women on black .... to the colours” – Independência Catamaran of Barcadouro (V.N.Gaia, Portugal)

- September 2014 – “Territories: what’s on an empty place?” collective at Adorna Corações Galerie (Porto, Portugal)

- October 2014 – “The shapes of words” – Duas de Letra (Porto, Portugal)

- January 2015 – Collective exhibition at Palakiss “Mostra Gioiello Contemporanei” (Italy)

- March 2015 – Collective exhibition at Gallery Samona “Memories Inside Jewellery” (Italy)

- September 2015 – Collective exhibition Concorso Design 20.15 at Abate Zanetti (Veneza – Italy)

- December 2015 – Collective exhibition “Curnocopia” at Jaggedart Gallery (London – United Kingdom)

- December 2015 – “Alma. Vem do interior?” –Centro Cultural e de Congressos (Caldas da Raínha – Portugal)

- December 2016 – Collective exhibition “Desired” at Jaggedart Gallery (London – England)

- April 2017 – Collective exhibition “À volta do mar” at Quadras Soltas gallery (Porto-Portugal)

- September 2017 – Collective exhibition integrated on the festival “os Modos Nascem Coisas” (Albergaria-a-Velha – Portugal)

- October 2017 – Collective exhibition “História(s) (d)e Identidade(s)” at ACIG (Guimarães - Portugal)

- December 2018 – Collective exhibition “Deeply desired” at Jaggedart Gallery (London – England)

- September 2018 – Collective exhibition integrated on the festival “os Modos Nascem Coisas” (Albergaria-a-Velha – Portugal)

- September 2019 – Collective exhibition integrated on the festival “os Modos Nascem Coisas” (Albergaria-a-Velha – Portugal)

- December 2018 – Collective exhibition “Deeply desired” at Jaggedart Gallery (London – England)

- July/August 2020 – Collective on-live exhibition “Jewellery and protective objects for the 21^st century (PIN – MUDE, Portugal)

- August 2020 – Collective exhibition “Artist book, spaces diversity” (integrated at XXI Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira – Portugal)

- December 2020 – Collective and on-line exhibition “In-Corpora a Obra” Brazil Jewelry Week (Brazil)

- December 2020 – Collective exhibition “WALKING Treasures” at ESH Gallery (Milan – Italy)

- November 2023 - Collective exhibition "Dream and Reality" Curated by Luis Acosta: Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld (The Netherlands)

- February 2024 - Collective exhibition "Dream and Reality" Curated by Luis Acosta: Galería Lalabeyou (Madrid – Spain)

- April 2024 - Collective exhibition "Dream and Reality" Curated by Luis Acosta: Galerie CEBRA (Düsseldorf - Germany)

Porto, in Portugal, is my city: where I was born and where I like to live. Mountains, Nature, ... is something from my deep soul and where I like to feel myself.

Little Nothing - Paula Castro, started in 2013 after I have taken the decision to change the course of my professional life. I have a degree in Psychology and I worked for 27 years in industrial companies, in the ​​People management area.

In my last years, the company's principles and values changed and were against mine. This, was the main reason to have decided to change.

Art, aesthetic and sensitivity to what is around me, always have been present feeding my spirit.

I was attending jewelry training and a certain moment, I was so fascinated about it! At same time, I was so sad with the job I had that I decided to invest on my jewellery training.

So, I studied jewellery for two years and a new passion was born. My sensitivity became having shapes!

I have needed half a century to realize, that the way to Nature and to mountains could offer me much more than trekking, contemplation, fantastic findings and reflection time…..

Story's name

When I made my mind to change profession, the name's brand "Little Nothing - Paula Castro" come up in my mind immediatly,

There were two reasons for that: Since I was a child I collect leaves, flowers, twigs and stones from Nature's ground. So, I was sure I would like to work with raw Nature (they are "nothing").

The second reason was that I wanted to work in another direction that I used to work inside a company: I would like to share with the others the beauty of simple things, simple acts, transparency, freedom, lightness of beeing. To be and not to have.

I want to value the "little nothings" of Nature, warning the urgency of our planet conservation and contemplation as well as the importance of "small" gestures and actions from humans.

About my work

I create artistic and contemporary jewellery.

My inspiration comes from emotions and nature.

Organic, imperfect, simple, asymmetric, irregular, light, are some of my work features.

NATURE

To sensitize people for the importance to defend and protect Nature. Each one can wear as a jewel a small piece from Nature.

EMOTIONS

I do hope people enjoy wear the pieces and that they may cause some emotion.

FEELINGS

Let's allow ourself to feel the feelings that life gives us.

SIMPLICITY

I try to have simple design as well as natural materials – depending on market availability and/or recycled and from fair trade.

UNIQUE

Due the materials used and the way I work, each piece is unique or from a very small serie.

Unique, like each one of us!

My values

Exhibitions

Little Nothing - Paula Castro, started in 2013 after I have taken the decision to change the course of my professional life. I have a degree in Psychology and I worked for 27 years in industrial companies, in the People management area.