WildOatesArt offers a small but growing selection of art that you can wear, art you can use, and art you can hang on the wall to look at. We started selling our work to people we know primarily because we didn't know what to do with it after we made it--it kept piling up in a most distressing manner, and we only have so much wall and shelf space. Clearly something needed to be done, and offering our goodies to friends seemed to be the next logical step.

Of course, that wasn't good enough, because those "friends" (and we use the term loosely) complained that they couldn't show other people what we usually carried around in a battered old Amazon.com box if we had the box and they didn't.

Yes, an Amazon box. Two, in fact. I told you we weren't prepared for this. We had to make do.

Anyway, the clamor arose for a website, so here it is. Take a look around, and if you like something, PayPal is your friend (and ours). Remember that art is unique, and much of what you see here is one of a kind. We have mountains and piles of components, and we put them together as we like as we go. We make our own beads, we twist, we bend, we fold, spindle and mutilate. We look at it, we like it, and it is good.

A note about materials...if the metal looks like silver, it almost always is silver, not some cheap silver-colored metal. The same goes for the gold--it's 14 carat gold filled, not gold plated. It's not quite as sweet as solid gold, but it also makes it much more affordable. You'll also see some copper here and there, a bit of aluminum, pewter, nickel...if we see something we really like, we might include it in a design that is mostly precious metal. But we'll always tell you.

Beads can be glass or semi-precious stones. We especially love odd mis-matched beads, shiny clunky bits that look like so much fun when you put them on your body.

And of course, the polymer clay. Some of our work looks like natural materials, but is actually made out of polymer clay, a marvelously versatile medium. We do the polymer clay ourselves, and incorporate it in many of our designs. Most polymer must be colored, shaped, cut, baked, sanded, sanded, sanded, buffed, and made shiny. It's a lot of work, but the results are great.