Artist’s Statement
“Creativity is the imagination at play with the things it loves.” Carl Jung. I believe that creativity is of utmost importance in life. The idea that we have the ability to create, that which has never been created before, is so amazing. I satisfy my longing for artistic meaning in life through my work as a jewelry artisan. I find the process of creating at least as important as the resulting creation. My pieces are formed from Art Clay silver and gold, lamp worked glass and semi-precious beads, wire and other organic materials. I make many different individually created bracelets, necklaces, rings and pins from the very dressy to everyday informal. I find that once I have created a piece, the challenge has been met and I move on to a new idea, hence no two pieces are alike.

Biography
Wendy Hoffman is a jewelry artisan living and working in Brownsville, Oregon. She has been dabbling in the creative arts for as long as she can remember. She found her niche about twelve years ago; at that point she discovered the lure of beads! When her husband asked what she was going to do with all of those earrings she was making, she said, “sell them,” and her business, Moon Bead Arts, was born. Over the last ten years she has broadened her jewelry making talents to include Art Clay, a silver metal clay. She is a Senior Instructor in this medium and has been teaching introductory, specialty and advanced classes in the mid-Willamette area for five years. Wendy has also taught classes in Tucson, Arizona and the Puget Sound Bead Festival in Washington state. She also teaches wire and beading techniques. About 5 years ago Wendy began learning to make lamp worked glass beads. She has shown her work in several area shows, and has sold her jewelry in stores and galleries in Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Brownsville and Port Townsend, WA. Wendy has just started doing home jewelry shows where she displays and sells her jewelry in the homes of interested hostesses (or hosts).

Studio
Wendy’s studio is located in a historic 1879 home, on the banks of the Calapooia River.