Janine Cardona

Janine Cardona holds a B.Ed (Hons) in French and Maltese. She also studied Art and Design at Advanced level. Her interest in crafts began in her late primary school years, working parchment and ‘ganutell’. Eventually she started making jewellery, first as a hobby, then expanding on a larger scale, thus founding Janine Jewellery in 2020. She started thinking of incorporating ‘ganutell’ in her jewellery work, exposing it and its potential as a piece of personal adornment to locals and foreigners. She set up her line ‘Ganutell Ġojjell’ in 2021, naming it after her first submission for Premju Ġieħ l-Artiġjanat Malti.