Workshops

We offer three different workshops: Photography by Herman van Bon; Watercolours by Carin Maehr and Jewellery Making (of beach findings) by Yvonne de Wit. The coming days more info on this site. We can also organise customised workshops, combinations of these workshops and even week/midweek/weekend arrangements. Just enquire. All workshops in Napier but also possibilities […]

Haiku Photography

Haiku photography in Studio on 98 in Napier, Western Cape, South Africa . HAIKU DANCE Slow song sweetly sungshe sways gently. wishing forhis tender embrace

Lockdown; previous 7 days

Lockdown South Africa: Now Day 95. Level 3: Day 29 One photo daily and all photos in Black & White and in and around Napier, Overberg region, Western Cape, South Africa.

Experiments during lockdown

Difficulties during lockdown in South Africa with mailing orders to destinations abroad. In the meantime Yvonne is experimenting with once-off designs made of scrapyard finding.

Antique Anvil

A new addition to Yvonne’s workshop is an antique anvil. It’s a miniature one for fine jewellery making. Yvonne works preferable with ancient tools for these give her the feeling of real jewellery craft. “And my customers experience it as such. It’s different from the laser cut and casted mass produced items that are for […]

The inspirational location

We are located in Napier, Western Cape, South Africa along the main road between Cape Town (90 minutes if no traffic jam) and Cape Agulhas (40 minutes with rural traffic jam). Tourists tend to rush pass our village on their way to their mainstream destination. But more and more explorers amongst those travellers are discovering […]

Detour

3 Famous #Dutch #actors made a detour between Oudshoorn and Cape Town. Just to visit our #gallery and buying Yvonne’s studs. #jewellery #art

To London (UK) and to Greyton

A stylish design ring made of South African Sterling Silver combined with naturally bonded crushed rock particles went to a customer in London (UK) and the ‘Wave of the Whale’ (same materials) found a home in Greyton, South Africa.

The ‘Retro Line’

Yvonne de Wit designs and creates jewellery from recyclable metals: The Retro Line. Steampunk- and Tattoo- outlets are in the market!

Explore

Now also on the map of Xplorio; a much visited website with ‘what-to-do’, ‘where-to-buy’ and ‘where-to-eat/sleep’ in the Overberg region in the Western Cape, South Africa. See for yourself.