Ana Pina
Ana Pina was born in 1980, in Porto, Portugal, city where she studied, still lives and works.
She graduates in architecture (FAUP, 2004) and works in an office for a few years, until she founds her passion for contemporary jewelry.
Jeweler and gallerist, she now divides her work between her personal brand, launched in 2012, and Tincal lab, that is since 2015 an active contemporary jewelry workshop and exhibition space, featuring curated workshops with invited jewelers, individual and collective exhibitions, by local and international artists.
In her work Ana Pina combines the background in architecture with traditional jewelry techniques and contemporary concepts of design in the creation of jewels with a strong abstract and geometric inspiration.
Unique pieces or limited collections combine elements of a common vocabulary in a game of contrasts and textures, geometric relations and asymmetries, as if they were letters building words inserted in a bigger text.
Some of her favorite things include: cats, the color red, chocolate, shoes, books, music, cinema, travels and yoga.
Tincal lab
Tincal lab opened its doors in June 2015 on a second floor space at Rua de Cedofeita, in downtown Porto. In the end of 2018 it found a new home in the heart of Porto Art District: visit us now at CCBombarda, shop 25.
Under the motto curating and experimenting in contemporary jewelry, we regularly launch collaborations and events that help to promote this amazing creative area, such as workshops with invited jewelers, individual and collective exhibitions, featuring works by local and international artists.
Tincal, also known as sodium borate or borax is a porous mineral consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water. Among its many possible applications, it’s used in powder form during the process of melting metal or diluted, as a flux, during welding, acting as a supporting element of this process: it slows the oxidation of the metal and helps the solder to run along the joint of the two parts that you want to connect.
Being a word that sounds familiar to most jewelers, it also works here as an invitation to the rest of the public to come to know and interact with this fascinating universe.