Anyone visiting the gift shop at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh museum before 9th January 2010 will find an inspiring range of jewellery made by Birmingham jewellery designer maker Sara Preisler to commemorate the museum’s current exhibition of previously unseen letters from Vincent to his brother Theo shortly before he died.  Having previously worked with prestigious clients such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sara was approached by the Van Gogh museum’s curators and buyer earlier this year to design and manufacture a range of work to complement the exhibition.

Across the channel in Birmingham at Sara Preisler’s own eponymously named Gallery/Workshop at the Custard Factory in Digbeth, from 1st December you will not only be able to buy one of the items in the collection – including cufflinks and rings for men, beautifully inscribed with Van Gogh’s own hand-writing  – you will also be able to get a glimpse behind the scenes at the commission and design process that Sara undertook including photographs and sketches of work in progress.

Sara’s exhibition ‘Scenes from a commission – an exclusive insight at a Van Gogh Museum’ has been coordinated to coincide with this year’s Brilliantly Birmingham jewellery festival and will run at the Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA from 1st December 2009.

Jewellery prices begin at £70   Further information about Brilliantly Birmingham go to http://www.brilliantlybirmingham.com