About Wendy Brent
nternationally
known Wendy Brent has been in this artistic endeavour since 1978. She has always
been an artist and began accepting art and painting assignments when she was
11 years old, at which time she began selling her work. She studied sculpture,
design, illustration and painting at Hollywood Art Center School for three years
and received her credential.
Wendy has been told that she has a matchless gift of uncommon skills. Her inventive and imaginative labor of love has always been her freethinking life’s journey. Our pure, blameless cherub says Brent has always been under the spell of her calling.
Wendy has committed herself to practicing her artistic skills — carefully
fashioning cats, rabbits, dogs and dolls for more than 31 years. She designs
and constructs each piece herself, with no assistance from others.
Wendy envisions the spirit of her animals in order to express its kinship and love for you. She recommends her animals to be your loving companions, giving you many seasons of pleasure.
Each piece will captivate you with its German, handblown glass eyes which Wendy paints in five different colors, then fires four times to achieve perfectly balanced luminosity. For each individual face she handsculpts the nose; toes on the hands and feet are formed and tranpuntoed out of deerskin. Each toe is stuffed to look like real paw pads. Many of her works of art incorporate long haired Tibetan sheep’s fur, cashmere, mohair and alpaca.
Wendy’s graceful pieces are rich in “pedigree and position.” Positions are the creation of movement as the result of articulating joints: moveable at the elbow, knee or wrist, extra joints in the neck and waist resulting in six or more different poses for each dog, cat or rabbit. Some have opening and closing mouths with tiny sculptured teeth, tongues and lips and soft palates, while others have closed mouths with no tongue or teeth at all.
The excellence of Wendy Brent’s work was instantly recognized and she has
received many awards including “Dolls Award of Excellence” from Dolls Magazine
in 1989. Articles about her work are included in “A Tribute to Teddy Bear Artists,”
by Linda Mullins, as well as numerous articles in “Teddy Bear and Friends” and
“Teddy Bear Review” over the years.
She values most the honor of having her work added to the collections of the Smithsonian.