Mitzy Jonkheer
Mitzy Jonkheer’s work is often recognizable, yet continuously evolving, as she has numerous ideas and concepts floating around in her imagination, and the skills to bring those ideas to fruition. Her work is organic, leaning towards art nouveau. She is fond of texture and obsessed with wings. Often pressing the feathers of birds and the wings of bees, cicadas and butterflies into sterling, copper, brass, and fine carat gold.
Working mostly in sterling silver, with the addition of rusted metal, and bits of gold and platinum, she fabricates lyrical pieces of wearable art. One of her signature details is the use of rivets to hold elements together, allowing perpetual movement or independent, miniature pieces.
The back of her pieces tend to have a secret message or additional ideas sketched in. Her work relies heavily on symbolism: gold discs represent the sun; silver, the moon. People have said there is something undeniably raw and passionate about my work: a complete story told briefly.
