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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