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Wilma
van Boxtel
Designer (Perth, WA)
Wilma
is an industrial Product Designer, having studied at The Design Academy
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She
has worked in the international furniture industry for 15 years, mostly
in bedroom furniture design. Most of her furniture designs have been
presented at international furniture shows such as Cologne, Paris, Milan
and England.
Wilma
says "As an industrial designer at commercial companies you have
to design products for a large group of people, there are much more
rules than for designer items. The price, the production process, materials,
etc. And as a designer you want to make something which is not too ugly!"
She
was born in The Netherlands and migrated to Australia in 2003.It has
been her dream to live Australia, with it's a beautiful country, natural
surroundings and lovely weather. As
a child Wilma would draw large etchings with a big stick in the sand
around the farm where she grew up. She also collected beautiful forms,
made by nature; stones, seeds, leaves, flowers, butterflies, shells,
etc. She continues to collect natures gifts; natural forms stimulate
her creative process of design.
"I
am a realistic person, I like most of all realistic art, and if it's
artificial it has to be colorful. I have a special interest in indigenous
art from all over the world, because most of the time they use natural
forms like seeds to carve in. It's amazing how a seed looks when used
in art. Like the painted eggs in the museum in Darwin or the boab seeds
in Broome, beautiful."
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