The Artist

Wendy Armstrong

Wendy Armstrong is a Bainbridge Island artist whose five-decade practice refuses a single medium. Raised in a family of artists and designers, she has worked in stone, forged and welded steel, sandblast and cast glass, ceramics, wood furniture and cabinetry, and painting on paper and canvas, choosing the material to suit the work rather than the reverse. Her glass and painting commissions number more than a hundred across corporate and private collections. Etched-glass work has included a series of crystal and etched bowls acquired by Tiffany & Co., New York; a bowl made by special invitation for the Legion of Honor's Monet exhibition in San Francisco; etched entry windows for the General Theological Seminary chapel in New York, commissioned by Bishop Harold B. Robinson; and custom pieces for Asprey Ltd. and Val Saint Lambert Crystal of Belgium. Her sculpture has taken four first-place juried awards at the Bellevue Art Museum and a Museum Purchase Award at the Edmonds Art Museum, and her co-designed Three Trees, a fourteen-foot steel sculpture, stands at the entrance to Centennial Park in Poulsbo. A founding member of the Kitsap County 1% for Arts Commission, she has curated and managed the Armstrong Art Gallery on Winslow Way and shown with Foster White and Davidson galleries in Seattle, Zantman Art Galleries, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, where her work appeared in the 2023 Juried Spotlight. For Iconic Bainbridge she returns to paint, with the island itself as subject