Reena Ahluwalia is a Toronto-based Canadian jewellery designer. She began her career immersed in traditional Indian jewellery. Jewellery being an intrinsic part of everyday life in Indian culture, she was able to focus on the importance of jewellery’s many functions – symbolic, physical and conceptual.

Over her fifteen-year period as a jewellery designer, Reena continues to work on design projects in North America, Asia, Middle East and Europe. Her work can also be found in private collections across Asia and Europe. She has won numerous national and international awards, including the coveted De Beers Diamonds-International Award. Her award winning piece was featured by Alexander McQueen in his Spring/Summer 2000 collection in New York. Her spectacular design for HRD Awards 2007 has been featured in a special edition postage stamp issued by the Belgian Postal Service.

In 2008, Reena was invited to design a setting for Ontario’s first mined diamonds from the De Beers Victor Mine in the historic Mace of Ontario. She contributes to campaigns for De Beers, Platinum Guild International (PGI) and the World Gold Council (WGC). Reena also invests her time teaching part-time at the George Brown College in Toronto.

Reena’s work has often been described as flamboyant, harmonizing precision and geometry with fluidity and movement. She has been successful in exploring different extremes in form, effortlessly moving from extravagant and exaggerated to small and understated. She strongly believes that design cannot express ideas that last in time unless sustained by analysis and deep understanding of elements - both material and conceptual. This, along with her bold investigative style has enabled her to create pieces that reflect contemporary flare while amplifying the timeless beauty of the human body.

Her latest pearl and diamond collection ’The Song of the Stars’ collection is an extension of her award-winning Tahitian Pearl Trophy 2008 necklace called ’Ethereal Rhapsody’

www.reenaahluwalia.com