Marjolein Efting Dijkstra

About Me

I am academically trained as a researcher in art history and ethnology. Over the past 20 years, I lived in Costa Rica, the USA, Germany and my native country, the Netherlands. I specialized in folk art, aesthetics, and human-animal relations. Now, I am a jewellery designer, combining traditional goldsmithing and experimental techniques such as resin casting. In my free time, I am a beetle breeder and conservationist, preserving a private rainforest reserve, called Finca Oropendola, in Costa Rica.

Jewellery

My webshop will open in the spring of 2018.

Rainforest conservation

See www.fincaoropendola.org

Copyright © Marjolein Efting Dijkstra, 2017 - All Rights Reserved
Design By Chris Creed

• Finca Oropendola from a distance
• Montezuma oropendola
• Tree trunk
• Canopy exploration
• Beetle
• Shadow and light
• Similar rainforest in Costa Rica
• Anolis
• Large animal track
• Fruit on the forest floor

• Deep Pond, prototype in wax
• Deep Pond, prototype in silver
• Floating 1
• Deep Pond, finished prototype
• Floating 2
• Resin experiment
• Intention Box
• Keeping track of new ideas
• At the bench: wax carving
• At the bench: mould making

• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Publication
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)
• Fieldwork (project: bird decoys)