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After 20 years of creating figurative sculptures, Willy Scholten set up her jewelry business in Silicon Valley, California.
Ms. Scholten was born in Holland. She graduated as a 2D-art teacher from the Art Academy in Arnhem, and as a 3D-art teacher from the Art Academy in Groningen. After teaching at Dutch High Schools, Ms. Scholten moved to Switzerland where she started a ceramics studio in a spare room. For sheer adventure, she moved to New Mexico and joined an artist co-op in Santa Fe. In Texas, she started graduate studies at Texas Tech University then completing her MFA at San Jose State University.
Ms Scholten currently designs jewelry in a manner that underwrites the Bauhaus doctrine she studied back in Holland. Materials have form, size and texture which determine how they should be shaped into jewelry. This process and her preference for using contrasting materials determine the look of WillyWare. The jewelry is a mix of recycled technical materials from Silicon Valley, sterling silver, pearls and semiprecious stones. Like Rapunzel, Ms. Scholten is spinning silicon into silver, transforming recyclables into desired jewelry.
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