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Nicola Vruwink grew up riding horses in Pella, Iowa. Everytime she won a
riding competition (which happened A LOT cause she was GOOD), they gave
her a pretty ribbon to wear. She loved those pretty ribbons. She also spent a lot of time with her father, the artist John Vruwink, learning to create.
As an adult, living in Los Angeles, she misses Pella,her horse (Missy was her name) and her dad. She also misses those pretty ribbons. Since there aren't that many horses to
ride in her neighborhood of Echo Park, she started making the next best
thing: her own line of jewelry.
So she divides her time between her two passions, art and jewelry. Nicola has an MFAin metalsmithing focusing on sculpture and installation art and has become an established artist. Her artwork has been featured in The Seattle Art Museum http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?WHEN=PAST&eventID=4855, at Western Bridgehttp://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=300&fid=6&sid=17, at James Harris
Gallery http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/67947_vruwink26q.shtml , and in Art Forum Magazine http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_43/ai_n6203255.
Now you can own a piece of her art. Each piece is handmade with as much love and attention to detail as any dedicated artist would give their artwork.
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