Felieke van der Leest trained as a jeweler at the Schoonhoven Technical School, before graduating in jewellery design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1991. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including: in the USA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the Racine Art Museum ; the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands ; the KODE Art Museums in Bergen, Norway ; the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Montreal ; the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo ; the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK ; the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her work has received numerous awards and appears in a wide range of publications. Felieke van der Leest lives and works in Øystese, Norway.