{"id":143,"date":"2025-06-23T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:38:35","slug":"about-the-designer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/about-the-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"About \/ Um"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gullsmi\u00f0jan Eitri<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson is a European trained and certified journeyman goldsmith. He was raised on the family farm in Riverton, where he now has his workshop. He holds an Advanced Arts Degree from the University of Manitoba (2012), a Jewellery Design and Fabrication Certificate from North Island College (Campbell River, 2015), and a Journeyman Goldsmith Certification from T\u00e6knisk\u00f3linn: Sk\u00f3li atvinnul\u00edfsins (Reykjav\u00edk, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While trained in various techniques, Thorsteinn has a particular passion for filigree and draws inspiration predominantly from nature and cultural motifs of his Scots and Norse ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00deorsteinn Eyj\u00f3lfsson er gullsmi\u00f0ur og er fagl\u00e6r\u00f0ur \u00e1 \u00cdslandi. Hann \u00f3lst upp \u00ed Riverton (Lundi) \u00e1 b\u00f3ndab\u00e6 \u00fear sem langalangafi hans t\u00f3k s\u00e9r landn\u00e1msj\u00f6r\u00f0 1876 og \u00fear hefur \u00deorsteinn sett upp gullsmi\u00f0juna s\u00edna. Hann t\u00f3k listagr\u00e1\u00f0u vi\u00f0 H\u00e1sk\u00f3la Manit\u00f3bu (Winnipeg, 2012), f\u00e9kk sk\u00edrteini \u00ed h\u00f6nnun og sk\u00f6pun skartgripa fr\u00e1 Nor\u00f0eyjat\u00e6knisk\u00f3lanum (Campbell River, 2015), s\u00ed\u00f0an burtfararpr\u00f3f og sveinspr\u00f3f \u00ed gull- og silfursm\u00ed\u00f0i fr\u00e1 T\u00e6knisk\u00f3lanum: Sk\u00f3la atvinnul\u00edfsins (Reykjav\u00edk, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00de\u00f3tt \u00deorsteinn hafi l\u00e6rt margar a\u00f0fer\u00f0ir og handbrag\u00f0 vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 vinna gull- og silfursm\u00ed\u00f0i \u00fe\u00e1 hefur hann mezt me\u00f0l\u00e6ti a\u00f0 vinna a\u00f0 hef\u00f0bundnu v\u00edravirki og svo sk\u00f6punarm\u00f6guleika eftir \u00e1hrifum \u00far n\u00e1tt\u00farunni og menningarlegum t\u00e1knum, \u00fe\u00e1 s\u00e9rstaklega af skoskum og norr\u00e6num uppruna s\u00ednum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gullsmi\u00f0jan Eitri Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson is a European trained and certified journeyman goldsmith. He was raised on the family farm in Riverton, where he now has his workshop. He holds an Advanced Arts Degree from the University of Manitoba (2012), a Jewellery Design and Fabrication Certificate from North Island College (Campbell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/about-the-designer\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eitrigoldsmith.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}