Orchard Artworks - Judith S. Synnestvedt

Artist: Judith S. Synnestvedt

131 New Bethel Church Road
Kempton, PA 19529

Phone: 610-756-4210

Judy has lived and worked in Kempton for almost 25 years. She has been an artist to some degree since she drew stage coaches all over her bedside wall with crayon during some enforced nap many years ago. After graduating with an art teaching degree, she taught for three years at the Academy of the New Church, then married and began raising a family for the next 30 years – often ignoring family to sew, quilt, volunteer, teach art at the local school, etc. About three years ago, faced with maturity and perhaps 30 more years of life on this earth, she got serious about drawing and painting again, enrolling in classes at a nearby art studio where she began to learn what she wished she’d been taught way back when.

Armed with renewed enthusiasm and clearer vision, she made a start – with hand cast relief sculptures inspired by the letter of the WORD because…

The letter of the WORD is so important for us

Well designed, affordable art work should be available

She sees the stories of the WORD as sculpture

And she hopes the tiles will bring delight and reminders of important lessons and perhaps even inspire someone to dig deeper into the Heavenly Doctrines

And because the process seemed doable right now.

The tiles are first modeled in plasticene and a mold made of a polyurethane rubber. The casts are made with a tinted gypsum plaster, dried, selectively sealed, stained, and sealed again. The “Loaves and the Fishes” and the “Wheat and the Tares” are her first adventures into this process. As the WORD is full of possibilities – endless, actually – Judy doesn’t expect to run out of inspiration any time soon.