Alyssa Norton is an artist and designer whose practice spans fine art and jewellery. Rooted in intuitive material experimentation and moving fluidly between the organic and the synthetic, her work investigates the space where painting becomes sculpture. The moment the implicit gives way to the explicit.

Alyssa Norton

b. 1973  Lives and works in Somerset

Exhibitions and Presentations

2026 Artist presentation, with work shown, at the launch of Hettie Judah’s How to Enter the Art World (Hoxton Mini Press) with the artist’s crit group

2025 Nothing Stays Gold, solo exhibition, Maker’s Yard, Frome

Education

2000 MFA Painting, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

1995 BFA, Cornell University, New York

Nominated, Yale Norfolk Summer Residency Program

Additional study

2005 Technical Drawing, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

2001 Jewelry Design, 92nd Street Y, New York

1998 Painting, Parsons School of Design, New York

1996 Studio Program in Painting, Empire State College, New York

Awards and Nominations

2006 Nominated for the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Jewelry Design, Council of Fashion Designers of America, New York

Publication

2008 The New Jewellers, Olivier Dupont, Thames & Hudson, London

Selected Press

American, British, French, Italian, German and Japanese Vogue; Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Porter, Elle and British Elle, V Magazine, Another Man, Self Service

Selected Film and TV

The Devil Wears Prada, Gossip Girl, Sex in the City

Selected Collaborations

Narciso Rodriguez, Browns, Pringle of Scotland, Tommy Hilfiger, Daryl K., VPL, Robert Geller, Phillips Auction House, Dover Street Market, Ikram Chicago, Liberty, Net-a-Porter