ButterScotch Pastry Shop
While in the neighborhood visit the ButterScotch Pastry Shop in Birchrunville just down Hollow Road from the Art Show. See their menu with fabulous offerings on their website
Markels Roberts
"I am driven to create, for myself,
as well as for others."
Markels specializes in ceramics, flameworked glass, painting, and jewelry. She is the owner, gallery host, and studio instructor of the Diving Cat Studio and Gallery in Phoenixville, PA.Markels founded the Frog Hollow Art Show in 2018.Markels discovered her passion for art working with clay as a grade school student living in southern California. She is now established as the Diving Cat Studio and Gallery in Phoenixville, PA creating ceramic sculpture and glass art, painting, and directing a 2000 sf. retail gallery showing the work of over 200 artists and designers. Clay allows her to work in three dimensions with few limitations. She works with earthenware, red clay, stoneware and porcelain. Her favorite subjects are found in the forest: animals, bugs, leaves, rocks and sticks, and symbols. These themes are sculpted and illustrated on vessels and in paintings. She likes to use a broad palette of color and abstract design.Markels’ artistic goal is to instill a sense of happiness and genuine intrigue in those who experience her work. Through her work, She wishes to be uplifting and, thereby, promote joy and inspiration in others. Laughing is good too.
Grand adventures await those
who are willing to turn the corner.
Victor & Sue Roggio
"we marvel at loving our craft more than words can say."
It was 1970 when Victor Roggio and Susan Roggio ( nee Fantacone ) first met as first year students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.We were in all of the same classes together and within a few days of meeting, we spent all of our time together. We formed a partnership of our talents which led us to making and selling jewelry to fine stores and galleries in the Philadelphia arena. Before long and much to our surprise, our jewelry was so well received that it became our full time job.Soon we had sales reps on the road all over the USA, coast to coast, and we hired six employees.Through hard times and good times, recessions and set backs and living for years both in Colorado and California, we have kept our hammers and torches quite busy.Over the years and to this day we love our work and our Zen studio lifestyle.Victor and I work alone these days, no more employees or sales reps. It has been this way for the last 22 years.We deeply appreciate our tons of customers who purchase, wear, love and want our pieces both for themselves and to give as tokens of love to others.Working with the metals and stones will always have something new to reveal.We marvel at the passing of time, we marvel at loving our craft more than words can say.See our work at Roggiojewelry.com
Annie Patrizi
"I hope to connect with like-minded sensation seekers
who have a passion for fine art."
I am a self-expressive 'Green Panther’ hoping to connect with like-minded sensation seekers who have a passion for fine art. I received my degree in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art and most recently participated in the 2022 Chester County Studio Tour, Yellow Springs Fine Art Show, and Malvern Retreat House Art Show, as well as the Birchrunville Art Tour and Unionville Art Gala, to name a few. I work primarily in oils on a variety of 2D and 3D surfaces. I like to think beyond the box.
Carol Molyneaux
"I love the creative process
that takes place in the mind's eye."
I have always been drawn to and captivated by the beauty of the natural world. I have come to realize that just about anything can be used as a medium with the creative process of discovering and exploring new ways, combined with imagination, design is endless.I am especially drawn to luxurious natural materials like leather, silk, cashmere, and semi-precious stones, even more so if it had a previous life as something else resulting in a creative recall of sorts.My pastel animal portraits and horsehair jewelry evolved as a way to stay involved in these worlds, especially the horsehair jewelry allowing me to keep my hands in horsehair, even out of the barn. Creating keepsakes that represent precious memories as a way to honor relationships is very satisfying.
Silk Sari scarves with semi-precious gem stones
Horsehair jewelry
Victoria O'Neill
Painter, collage, mixed media and fiber artist
“I love people and I love to make things”
“Victoria is a multi mediums artist. In addition to her background as a fine art painter, she creates paper and fiber art collages, layered fiber art wall pieces, plus various cloth doll characters and creatures.Victoria recently added rug hooking to her repertoire! including wall art, 3 dimensional vases, standing angels and The Peace Chicken Collection.Victoria is also well known as Sew Bee Mine, her innovative upcycling of vintage embroideries, needlepoints, and other carefully chosen fabrics and materials to create beautiful one of a kind wearable art clothing and accessories.
Bob Hakun
Objects that are burnt, broken,
rusty, crushed, bent, and stained."
I collect old, discarded items: some natural like bones or wood, some man-made, like wheels or rusty wire. I look for old things that show the graphic effects of aging: the beauty and harshness of the breaking-down over time of all things. I collect objects that are burnt, broken, rusty, crushed, bent, and stained: these things naturally imply a history or narrative. I stitch or bolt them together in a very un-craftsmanlike manner, and assemble a relatively crude and unrefined piece of art. My assembled artwork is intended to tell a story or convey a message greater than the individual items would project separately. The interpretation of that message is left to the viewer.Bob was born and raised in Northern Chester County, just across the Schuylkill River in the suburbs of Pottstown, PA. He attended Owen J. Roberts High School and West Chester University. He graduated from Kutztown University in 1976 with a BFA in painting.Bob designed Halloween costumes and masks for Collegeville Costumes for 17 years. He directed the sculpture, design, photography, illustration and packaging and marketing materials for a national product line of licensed Halloween costume characters. For the next 20 years he worked as a computer graphic designer and pre-press specialist at several printing companies. Bob has recently retired, and works full time as a fine artist.
Artistic interests: Painting, sculpture, photography. He worked on restoring the Carousel at Pottstown for over 10 years. He helped with the building of the Phoenixville Firebird for the last several years, and has been a member of many local art organizations. These include The PhoenixVillage Art Center in Phoenixville, the ArtFusion Art Center in Pottstown, Studio B Galley in Boyertown, The Greater Norristown Art League, The Chester County Art Association in West Chester, The Tristate Artist Equity, and the Berks Art Alliance in Reading. He was president of The Pottstown Area Artist Guild for several years.Achievements: Bob has won numerous awards in local art shows, including numerous “Best of Show” awards for his “Industrial Primitive” assemblages made from found objects. Bob was accepted into the Pennsylvania Art of the State exhibit in 2014, and won third place in sculpture in the 2016 exhibit. He has participated in both the Chester County Studio Tour and the Montgomery County Studio Tour over the last several years. He has had three one-person shows and numerous two and three-person shows in the last several years.
Nicole Wolf
Bob Dahms
Bob Dahms began crafting bowls and wooden vessels in 2014. With his love of nature and trees in particular it was natural that he would use his woodworking skills to take already fallen trees and give them a second life that others could appreciate. Bob lives and has his shop on northern Chester County. He features his work at local art shows. Bob is currently displaying his work monthly at the Phoenixville Farmers Market.
Michael Biddison
“In nature, nothing is discarded...
everything is re-used, re-invented, woven in”
Michael Biddison enrolled in a BFA program at Indiana University of Pa way back in 1979 to start his formal training in the arts, which may be the only formal thing he has approached. With a concentration in painting and drawing, a minor in political science, a host of theatrical credits and summers playing original music 6 nights a week at the Jersey shore with his band Ticapoo Brain, he charted an exuberant if not somewhat unpredictable course that continued into graduate school at Penn State and beyond. At Penn State, he continued playing music almost nightly while maintaining an assistantship at the Palmer museum and filling his painting cubicle with crazy objects, paintings and drawings. He was eventually gently encouraged to write his own damn graduate program since the painting department didn’t know what to make of his giant black and white photocopy collages done on salvaged doors or his bombastic performance art. So he did invent his own damn graduate program. But it wasn't long before he realized that he was crazy for a certain woman who was moving from State College to Philadelphia (the woman who eventually agreed to marry him and still puts up with him for the most part). Michael decided that Philadelphia seemed like a better place to do the crazy things he was doing anyway. And so off he went.Now Michael lives in the northern tippy top of Chester county where he has fashioned a varied and energetic life of work (restoration carpentry), family, and community, weaving it together with writing, performing music with his band the Llama Dalis and making enchanted objects from found and salvaged materials.Michael has shown and sold works throughout the northeast in galleries, the Philadelphia Furniture Show, and numerous boutique house shows. By himself and in collaboration with others he has created commission sculptures for the AAA headquarters lobby in Wilmington, Brandywine Trust at the Cira center, as well as at various adventurous restaurants and stores.His latest significant project, published during the Covid Era, is a wild mixed media 404 page self published behemoth collectors edition book with QR codes and links to his YouTube and SoundCloud works. It’s called “Zart, the Art of Everything from Z to A” and people can find out how to get a copy, as well as see other examples of Michael’s body of work, at I-zarts.com. He ongoingly shows work at the Bungalow Living Room Gallery in Kimberton by appointment.
Please Call John @ (484) 919-8774
if you have any questions regarding the show.
1655 Hollow Road, Birchrunville, PA 19425
Questions? Call John @ (484) 919-8774