Beautiful, silver and Resin Necklace - Renata Fryshara was born in the Czech Republic and studied Czech language, literature and art at West Bohemia University in Pilsen.  She studied illustration and graphic design at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague and at the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht, The Netherlands, where she also taught.  As a journalist specializing in art, she interviewed and photographed more then one hundred influential people in the Czech Republic.  In 2001, she moved to the United States and taught illustration at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts.  She has illustrated several books that were published in Europe and has exhibited her drawings, paintings, and photographs in Europe and the United States.  She lives with her family in Rockport, Massachusetts, where she exhibits her paintings and jewelry in her Gallery Fryshara.