We began our passion for minerals one day about 20 years ago at a flea market on Long Island. Donna and I were newly married and stumbled across a table filled with Arkansas Quartz and polished Agates. We instantly fell in love with a clear Quartz plate and bought it for the princely sum of $50.00 That night we took it home, placed it on our dining room table and just stared with wonder at the natural beauty, the unbelievable perfection of the sharp pointed crystals. I had seen such things in natural history museums growing up but never thought we could own them. I (Stuart) grew up in a very artistic family. My parents were art and antique dealers and I traveled the world with them visiting museums and studying every period in art from Egyptian to 20th century. I eventually went off to college and earned my masters in art history. Little did I know that every artist, every creative work I had ever seen would pale in comparison to the work of Mother Nature. My lifetime of aesthetic learning drew me rapidly towards the natural beauty of minerals. It was as if a lifetime studying art had brought me to this point where I now understood that all art, all aesthetics, come from nature. The appreciation of human art is but a reflection of nature itself. Donna has the most incredible taste in beauty without any formal training and was as drawn to the minerals as quickly as I was. We actively pursued their acquisition. We visited museums and mineral shops wherever we could find them from New York City to London. I had been a collector of many thing my whole life and knew that obtaining the very best was the only path. We both worked night and day constantly refining our taste and learning all that we could. So you see, it only took us 20 years to get here...we are happy to share our knowledge and passion with fellow collectors.
Collectors can contact us at:
Stuart & Donna Wilensky
Wilensky Fine Minerals
127 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, NY 12790
845-888-4411
E-mail : StuWil@aol.com
Web site : www.wilenskyminerals.com
