Medium
Acrylics, Paper Collage
Brenda’s Bio
Artist Brenda Hofbauer loves the way creating art encourages her to see – the color of light, the shape of a shadow, where reflections have traveled. She challenges herself to use a color that might not be the one she sees, but it’s the one the artwork needs. By constantly looking for inspiration and experimenting with new techniques her work stays fresh.
Hofbauer’s intricate paper collages and her paintings are contemporary impressionistic studies of snapshots of her life. She has developed a painstaking process to create collages that result in powerful statements made of paper and glue.
Hofbauer is a member of Athena Art Society of Toledo, Toledo Federation of Art Societies (TFAS) and Black Swamp Art Guild (BSAG). In 2023, her collage All to Ouselves received the Best of Show award in the TFAS Juried Members’ Exclusive Exhibition and the oil painting Rocky Coast received the 3rd place award in Athena’s Annual Fall Juried Exhibition. Over the past 15 years, she has won numerous awards in BSAG’s annual fall show, including 1 best of show, several 1st place ribbons and the people’s choice award 3 times. She has also won awards in exhibitions at the Wassenberg Art Center in Van Wert, Ohio
The Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers (CHWC) Artisan Collection, now Parkview Bryan, owns ten of Hofbauer’s original works. Many other paintings and collages are in private collections.