Artists Corner
We love supporting our local artists. We understand, as an artist, it can be difficult to get established. We are happy to promote, support, and trade food for your help in beautifying this farm space. Whether your passion is stained glass, stone, carving, painting, ceramics, glass, fiber, ink, or any other artesian enterprise, you're welcome here!
Roderick Neswick
Mark Doty
Sheryl Abid
Roderick Neswick
Rod is a self taught artist, sculpting bars of soap and blocks of wood into heads and figures since the age of six. Making his way as a professional artist, traveling not only across the country many times, but also throughout Mexico, Hawaii as well as Canada.
Working towards a Masters of Fine Art, Rod has been a professional artist for over 46 years during which he has owned and operated a Fine Art Gallery. He created a sculpted Gazebo 30′x12′, carved inside and out in a flowers and vines motif, it took first prize at the Annual Garden and Flower Show in San Francisco. He has shown his work in 31 art galleries across the country, from Hawaii to the East Coast, also, has exhibited in the Bundy Museum of American Art, in New York City.
Maria's Celestial Creations
Tony Case
Follow Rod at: www.facebook.com/roderick.neswick
www.roderickneswick.com
Email: rodneswicksculptor@gmail.com
Phone: 757-508-6623
I do commissioned work of any size and content. Please be sure to mention you found me through Heart 2 Heart Farms when contacting me!
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Classes are taught in wood carving, stone carving, oil painting, gemstone carving and silver jewelry from 11-3pm on Saturdays. Prices vary, please call/email for more details.
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Mark Doty
My name is Mark Doty, and I don’t want to be on assistance or dependent on the government, so it is time to tell my story. You see, I am autistic. I believe in America and the land of opportunity, however, for EVERYONE. I believe here ALL people can go after and achieve their dreams, and so I have started a woodworking business of my own…to inspire others. Why? Because life can be hard.
I saw how differently everyone treated the other autistic kids, and I didn’t want that. I began to wonder how I would ever support myself if I could not write, spell, or read very well. I was afraid I would be alone. But, God had a bigger plan for me.
I discovered my gift for woodworking by God’s good grace. I was volunteering with Heart 2 Heart Farms and CSA in Sherwood and they were helping me find what Tyler called my “area of brilliance.” He assigned me project after project, but when he had me start working with wood, my life changed. As I barked logs for a new pole barn, I fell in love. I watched, in awe, as the wood transformed beneath my hands. I LOVED every moment of it! I was mesmerized as the wood took shape before my eyes. Minutes became hours, and time flew by. It was then farmer Tyler noticed a change in me and decided to train me to work with wood.
It has been 6 months now, and every time I work with wood, I feel so excited-better than any video game I can imagine. As my skills improve, I tackle new projects, and I am determined to support myself and provide wonderful signs to my community. I love to see people showing off my signs and displaying them with pride. I also use fallen timber for my signs and am learning to make my own lacquers and be fully sustainable and take care of our environment. Thank you so much for helping support me. If you give me a chance, I can make almost anything for you, and if I don’t know how yet, farmer Tyler says he’ll teach me.
My hope is that someday every household will want to own work done by me, not because of what it will do for me, but because I feel it will inspire other people to go after their dreams and not listen when people say they can’t do something…and I can give all the glory to God who gives me strength and courage every day.” Mark Doty
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Sheryl Abid
Let me give a more detailed background. I come from an abusive home. I had to struggle to keep straight with myself and where I wanted to go in life. I was told art was a waste of time and would in many cases be abused for doing so well at it. I was told that art is/was a useless skill and that nothing would come of it. In fact, I was told I was of little importance. In all actuality, I think art saved me. There were so many times I felt alone and lost. Art became an outlet and gave me a place I could pour my heart out without judgment or ridicule; it was as simple as that, and complicated all at the same time. In each piece I let the canvas bleed my emotion. A heavy storm to a sunny meadow, I use landscapes and other things that I admire to help me work through it all. I am a strong believer that art is a wonderful therapy tool for children and adolescents. It would be a great tool for battered individuals all together, honestly. I want people who have been there, whether as a child or in an adult relationship, to know there is life after abuse. It’s not easy, and it’s a long hard road, but it is possible. It is possible to love yourself and to love life!
I am thankful for many things. I have wonderful employers that support me through everything that comes along with my husband’s disease. The many appointments that are involved, medications, side effect, surgeries, flares, and just the overall emotional and physical strain it causes for me and him. I absolutely love where I work. I work with physicians that are specialized in psychiatry and psychology for children and adolescents. Every day I work, I get to work with kids! Who wouldn’t love that! They are even supportive about me pursuing art!
I don’t have an elaborate art history as I have just recently come to the art world to sell. I have loved art since I can remember! We all have some special memories that take us back and provide some comfort. With a simple scent, image, or object you are transported back to the fond memory. For me art was such a big influence. I enjoyed drawing and doing creative things as a child, but I really didn’t have a grasp of how much until about 4 grade. We had elective classes once a week and there was this art class where we learned how to copy comic art. To my surprise I was pretty good at it. From that point on I continued to take art classes in school and progressed through the years into college when I was getting my AS in graphic design/visual communications. I knew I wanted to do something that allowed me to be creative. Art was a huge part of me and still is. In each piece I let the canvas bleed my emotion. A heavy storm to a sunny meadow, I use landscapes and other things that I admire to help me work through it all.
Follow me!
www.facebook.com/sherylabidsart
Email: sherylabidsart@yahoo.com
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Maria's Celestial
Creations
From a very young age Maria was exposed to the talents of several well -known artists with skills in different mediums from photography, pottery, fiber artistry, drawings, basketry and jewelry making. She has also exhibited and won awards in Colorado and California from the Denver Exposition Center to Festivals in Carmel, California.
These all have created the artist that she is today. Through her early influences, cultural heritage and technical training in college, her brush strokes can bring any medium to life. From the magical to the mystical and to the natural, whether it be on canvas or wall mural, her art work will inspire and conjure the depths of your imagination.
Maria primarily grew up in the mountains of Colorado where she was influenced by her environment and taught the love of art by her mother, a nationally known fiber artist and also from her father’s talents in leather etchings and custom wood craftsmanship. Maria presently resides in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with her husband and four young daughters.
Follow me! www.facebook.com/MariaCelestialCreations
Email: livepraylove4u@comcast.net
Please be sure to mention you found me through Heart 2 Heart Farms when contacting me!
Tony Case
BEHIND THE TORCH
Tony Case has been blowing glass since 2006. He makes all kinds of functional things ( Jewelry, Glasses, Lighting, etc) and sculptures just to look at.
Tony grew up in Dallas, TX and now lives in Portland, Oregon where the weather is much more suited for glass blowing compared to the insanely hot Texas summers.
High Voltage Glass is the name of his studio. It started in a warehouse in Dallas and now is in the corner of a World War 2 marine building in the industrial area of Portland, Oregon.
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