Our Expertise
Handcrafted in our Montreal workshop
Take a behind-the-scenes look at our jewelry and how it's made, and explore our unique artistic approach.
Artisanal production
Our Mission
Anne-Marie Chagnon creates original jewellery for women that distinguish themselves by their independence of spirit. The jewellery she creates indulges the desire of self-expression for the woman who chooses them.
Chiselled pewter, sheer glass, luminous resin, sumptuous 22 carat gold, lustrous copper, shimmering bronze; Anne-Marie Chagnon shapes and sculpts original and exclusive pieces, as contemporary as they are timeless.
Available on five continents, every jewellery is designed, created and crafted in our Montreal studio and workshops, where we oversee all the stages of the company's development, from conception to shipping, including marketing. Since 1995, we are proud to keep the tradition of crafting superior quality jewellery in Canada.
Our values
Anne-Marie Chagnon's creativity is multidisciplinary, omnipresent and inspiring. The founder, president and artist jeweller succeeded in creating a universe, for herself and the business, where creativity is the first value, that which leads all others. In a studio in constant creative boiling, initiatives emerge.
Collaboration is fundamental to keep work organized and to reach objectives. At all stages, quality is a source of pride. The attention to detail and thoroughness of each employee contributes to consolidate the reputation of Anne-Marie Chagnon jewellery, merging the best traditions of skilled crafts with trends in the fashion world.
The team, close-knit, focused and diversified, works hard and has fun working together, because every member of the team pours their heart into what they do, as Anne-Marie Chagnon creates the jewellery with all of her being.
That is how passion is at the heart of who we are!
Made by hand
The artistic process and creation of the pieces are not the only steps that are made by hand. Once the wax models have been sculpted in the artist's den, assembling the jewellery and ensuring it's quality control is a job well done by experienced jewellery artisans.
Once the jewellery's quality is verified, packaging and shipping are also done by hand, at the studio, where the warehouse is also located.
Furthermore, the pewter is produced in our own art foundry, annexed to the studio. Our art casters master an artisan technique and integrate innovative processes to assure the highest quality possible of the pewter pieces uses in our jewellery.
Creating local jobs
The studio and the head office is where the team works to make Anne-Marie Chagnon's vision come to life. Conducted in Montreal, in the heart of the Mile-End, activities of research and development, sales and marketing, customer care and repairs, communications and relations with the community make the company stand out.
Thirty years ago, Anne-Marie Chagnon founded her business and chose to create, produce and assemble her jewellery in Montreal. All her jewellery is still created and crafted at her studio. This woman who follows her heart as well as her mind is proud of that choice.
THE CREATIVE SPACE
Anne-Marie Chagnon
Her Artistic Process
Blessed with a bountiful creativity, Anne-Marie Chagnon masters many crafts and possesses a unique expertise through which she has succeeded in establishing a distinctive signature. Her artistic process is complex and profound. She unveils a few secrets.
Getting inspired
To create her collections, Anne-Marie Chagnon draws her inspiration from all that surrounds her. Humanity and its creations. Nature and our interactions with Her. To collect her thoughts, she composed inspiration boards way before Pinterest was even thought up!
There is of course the universe of visual arts, from painting to architecture, to photography. Music inspires her a lot. But it's more than that.
By chatting with someone, simply by looking at their style, gestures, postures, the way their hair falls on their shoulders, the artist can have an idea. Perceptions, emotional intelligence and psychology fascinate her just as much.
Drawing the first draft
In each collection, an inspiration dominates. For weeks, sometimes even months, the artist sketches, draws, paints. The huge brainstorming allows Anne-Marie Chagnon to explore the ways of her creativity to outline the course that will be hers, towards uncharted territory.
These first drafts are sometimes used as is, sometimes kept safely to be used in another collection, another year. It even happens that some of her drawings or details from her paintings find their way onto the jewellery. A singularly unique mark.
When she puts away pencils, crayons, charcoals, paintbrushes and papers, when ideas have become plans, the artist is ready to take it to the next level.
Sculpting the pieces
When she takes place at her working table, Anne-Marie Chagnon knows exactly where her creation is headed. Before she even starts to work, she knows exactly in which material each piece will come to life. The collection's universe has been shaped in her mind. Her hands instinctively get to work and her talent is exposed.
After having imagined and drawn the dominant pieces that will make the jewellery of the collection, the artist gives them shape through wax models. Through countless hours of wax sculpting, each gesture of the master of art is in symbiosis with her intention.
Once this stage completed, pewter, gold, copper, resin and glass are cast into the shapes imagined and sculpted by Anne-Marie Chagnon to come to life. With her unique pieces, Anne-Marie Chagnon creates inimitable jewellery.
Creating remarkable jewelry
After having sculpted and designed each piece and detailed each texture, Anne-Marie Chagnon composes each color herself. All the decisions taken by the artist allow the materialisation of her vision for the collection she is elaborating.
Once all the pieces have been gathered, creating the jewellery starts! Surrounded with her creation team, the artist jeweller plays and juggles with the pieces, then assembles them to form the jewellery creation that will be included in the collection.
If the pieces are the letters of a fresh alphabet, Anne-Marie Chagnon invents new words every year, the jewellery, to tell an original story, the collection. That is how she prolongs, year after year, the history of emotions and authenticity she has the privilege to share with materials and with women.
Closing the loop
At the end of the jewellery creation process, Anne-Marie Chagnon swaps her knives, engravers, burners and other sculpting tools for paintbrushes, trowels and acrylic tubes.
This other creative thrust, regenerative, in the world of painting, allows the artist to explore different facets of her bountiful creativity she fells the urge to express.