ZYLSTRA HONICA

Honica has studied design all her life.
She was born in the Netherlands and comes from several generations of professional artists whose disciplines include fashion design, painting, pottery, and art restoration.Her own career spans thirty years of painting, sculpture, theatrical costuming, quitting weaving, fashion and, for the last fifteen years, jewellery design.Working from her rural studio on the west coast of Canada, she continues to produce unusual collections of art jewellery design.Her lifelong fascination with natural materials had led to develop diverse designs featuring semi-precious stones, glass, minerals and fossils, together with hand-worked sterling, brass and copper.