Artisan 2 week spotlight show featuring the jewelry of Judith Pierce
There will be an Artisan 2 week spotlight show featuring the jewelry of Judith Pierce at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery in Nye Beach, Newport, Oregon. This show will run from April 27 through May 10 and the gallery is open from 11 am to 4 pm daily.
Judith enjoys working with form, texture and color to bring an object into being. She finds the creative process stimulating and exciting and she enjoys working for hours a day in her studio, often losing track of time. She is inpired to make jewelry and form things out of polymer clay because it satisfies her deeply felt need to be creative. Judith will be displaying jewelry made from glass, gemstones and natural materials such a pearls and shells. She will also display jewelry and other objects made from polymer clay.
Polymer clay is a versatile synthetic modeling material which is soft until it is baked and hardened. It is made out of pigments and PVC particles bound together by a plasticizer. The clay must be conditioned before using, a process of mixing the solids and liquids in the clay using a pasta machine. This softens the clay and makes it workable. Once conditioned, the clay can be formed into beads, pendants and other shapes of jewelry, sculpted into figures such a animals or other creatures, or applied for decorating surfaces such as containers, journal covers and light switch covers.
Judith has been creative all her life, sewing her own clothes as a teenager, quilting, raising and drying flowers that she made into bouquets, wreaths and wall hangings. She is a member of the Yaquina Art Association as well as the Artists Studio Association of Lincoln City where she is taking a class on polymer clay. She also sells her work at the winter Farmers Market in Newport, Oregon. Judith has lived in New England, Viriginia, Seattle, Portland and Hermiston. She has been married for 31 years and she and her husband have enjoyed traveling to 49 states in the US and several Canadian provinces in their RV and spent a month in Great Britain a few years ago. She is also a hospice volunteer and visits older people through the Friendly Visitors program. She loves reading and being a life-long learner.
