Terry Wiese
Painting - Oil, Water, & Acrylic; Pastels; Colored Pencils; Mixed Media
I have a BS in education. My training is in science and math. My art has always been a labor of love. It was something I could share with others. I consider it was a gift from God as I could work from my hospital bed. I would give my artwork as gifts.
Until I was in 7th grade and spent three months in the hospital in skeletal traction. I was born with a genetic bone defect, called osteogenisus imperfecta which means my bones are not formed correctly so that I break bones and tear tendon without any trauma. What made that hospital stay important is that I began drawing portraits of my doctors' children.
Being in bed for extended periods of time each year of my growing up years, my work became my psycho therapy since it enabled me to give gifts, get social interaction, express myself and gave me so much joy. I loved art and music so much. I also read like a crazy person back then.
-Terry Wiese
Until I was in 7th grade and spent three months in the hospital in skeletal traction. I was born with a genetic bone defect, called osteogenisus imperfecta which means my bones are not formed correctly so that I break bones and tear tendon without any trauma. What made that hospital stay important is that I began drawing portraits of my doctors' children.
Being in bed for extended periods of time each year of my growing up years, my work became my psycho therapy since it enabled me to give gifts, get social interaction, express myself and gave me so much joy. I loved art and music so much. I also read like a crazy person back then.
-Terry Wiese
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Artist Bio
Terry Wiese was born September 19, 1959 in small-town Iowa, the eighth child. She had four older Brothers and three older sisters. By March of third grade, 1968, she also had five younger sisters! But that’s another story. By then, Terry already knew that coloring was fun and that she loved drawing, especially eyes. Terry had already been diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition that produces bones that are weak and break with little to no trauma. By seventh grade Terry’s art has branched out by drawing classmates. She drew her orthopedic surgeon’s young son holding his prize fish catch. She gave away drawings to kids in the pediatric ward at a children’s hospital. This is where she spent three months in skeletal traction using weights, rope, and pulleys to keep her broken femur in alignment. Terry definitely went on doing her artwork. She graduated from Drake University cum laude with a BS in education and emphasis in Math, Human Anatomy/Physiology and Remedial Reading. Terry taught in a Des Moines consolidated school of inner-city Catholic parishes. She found that many of her inner-city kids grew up in situations that led them to believe that all adults lie… Terry felt she needed to show each student that she/he is unique, special, valued and respected. She decided to meet eighth graders after school and pencil sketch their portraits. This was her first time drawing so many portraits from live models, and all within a limited time. After Terry took a new job, the eighth grade students she left behind saw her come back. |
Every day, after their school day ended, they saw her keep her word to them. She sketched each child and displayed them for all to see, just as all her other eighth graders had. Terry says that Art + Love = Truth, and Love and Truth are more precious than science and math classes.
Terry’s students taught her life lessons (and teaching lessons) that are priceless to her. Terry also built crowns and bridges at a dental lab, Bookkeeping for GrayHound Bus Line, and managed a Teachers’ educational materials, Books and kids gifts store.
All of this ended with a multi-car collision that put her in the hospital for a month. The femur surgery became “complicated“. It led to years and more years of surgeries that became “complicated“. Terry turned to her Art, code name, “ Psychotherapy “. This turn of events was all the more reason for her to do more Art and play with more kinds of media and subjects. She did it the way she could, in her home hospital bed and on the floor.
SUBJECTS- using photos
Portraitures Are My Specialty -
All ages, Media, Costumes, Events…All Good!
Landscapes- Woodlands
Lakes - Reflection Pools
Mountains
Deserts-cacti, roadrunners, coyotes, doves
Fields of grains- Milo, Corn, Wheat, Corn, sunflowers
Windmills, Sky Scapes…
Animals- Award winning pets, live-stalk,
Pets of all kinds,
Exotic …
Fantasy
Commemorative-
Homes, Farms, Ma & Pop Stores…
Events…
Machines - Bikes, cars, tractors, trains, boats…
Recreate- Old damaged/faded/tiny photos renew
Combine desired aspects of photos
Alter photos with specific details removed or added
Change to a preferred color scheme -
Using the same subjects in an enlarged photo of an oil
painting containing a turn of the 19th century city scape in France, during
Spring with carts full of flowers for sale, horse drawn little
carriages, with cobblestone shiny wet, clothes lines
hanging high on balconies…
And also given - swatches of the materials - couch, chairs,
curtains, and carpet and paint color cards for the walls in
the room - desired size of my oil painting
I customize her desired painting to complement her living
room.
Statuary / relief plaque -
Given an unpainted plaster statue of the breed
Given clear photos of the same breed that has been chosen
for me to customize and
Given specific instructions if details that need to be
changed
Given a plaster relief plaque and
Given details of changes desire
Fairy Tales - Fantasy - Dragons
MEDIAS -may combine medias
Pencil, Color Pencil, Conti Crayon, Ink, Watercolor, Pastel Chalk, Oil Paint,
Acrylic Paint, Window Tempera Paint, Mixed Medias, Clays, Bees’ Wax
From 1988 and onward Terri’s life was filled with marriage, babies, homeschooling, many fractures, torn tendons, surgeries, and complications.
Crutches, walkers, canes, and wheelchairs became her means of mobility as she raised her daughter and five boys! Homeschooling was amazing. That too is another story!
Eventually the bone complications required her to undergo bone surgery. Still the broken bones wouldn’t heal. Then more surgeries for a couple years. St. Joseph’s Homeschool closed. Her oldest chose to attend Mount Michael High School. The youngest went with Terry’s trusted and well loved friend to preschool and more. The four in the middle spread out at St. Thomas More in regular classrooms.
Terry could not volunteer and donate money. She could attend very few events of any kind. She says that all of her life God has insisted, “DO WHAT YOU CAN DO.“… So she did.
In short, Terry sketched, then chalked, individual portraits of each eighth grader at STM (for fifteen years) and seniors (for four years at MM). As a mother, Terry gave these portraits to her fellow moms and dads. She wanted to, in a real way, reach out and personally touch and support and celebrate the parents who worked, sacrificed and persevered to give their children the best Catholic education they could. Terry told that to the Catholic Wanderer newspaper reporter who visited STM highlighting some ways parishioners at STM shared their time, talent and treasures. The principal, Dr. Willoughby, presented Terry with a presidential award for excellence for her “volunteering”.
Terry will tell you that she can draw anything that she can see and use any media she can pickup and just play with it. She just loves to do artwork! Terry, being a people person, naturally wants to give everything she can and to give the very best she can. She sees each person she serves as family who are unique individuals, valued and respected and beautiful with stories to tell through the Art they want her to do. By collaborating together, Terry can create a customized work of art that is personalized for the individual. Sometimes what we see in the end are hopes, memories, and mystery.
Terry knows she hasn’t come to her Art Work through conventional means. She believes she has so much more that she could learn from well-trained artists and artists who can make a thriving business from their art. Today, Terry is trying to support herself. She is starting here with a prayer that learning from everyone in this Fellowship of Catholic Artists and whoever comes into this artist’s story can train her in more than the Art Work. Terry says that she will do what she can and is keeping her eyes peeled for the outgoing (maybe shy), patient, generous wonderfully skilled, business person that she needs and that Our Lord is sending, to take Terry’s Art Work Story to the next level!
Terry’s students taught her life lessons (and teaching lessons) that are priceless to her. Terry also built crowns and bridges at a dental lab, Bookkeeping for GrayHound Bus Line, and managed a Teachers’ educational materials, Books and kids gifts store.
All of this ended with a multi-car collision that put her in the hospital for a month. The femur surgery became “complicated“. It led to years and more years of surgeries that became “complicated“. Terry turned to her Art, code name, “ Psychotherapy “. This turn of events was all the more reason for her to do more Art and play with more kinds of media and subjects. She did it the way she could, in her home hospital bed and on the floor.
SUBJECTS- using photos
Portraitures Are My Specialty -
All ages, Media, Costumes, Events…All Good!
Landscapes- Woodlands
Lakes - Reflection Pools
Mountains
Deserts-cacti, roadrunners, coyotes, doves
Fields of grains- Milo, Corn, Wheat, Corn, sunflowers
Windmills, Sky Scapes…
Animals- Award winning pets, live-stalk,
Pets of all kinds,
Exotic …
Fantasy
Commemorative-
Homes, Farms, Ma & Pop Stores…
Events…
Machines - Bikes, cars, tractors, trains, boats…
Recreate- Old damaged/faded/tiny photos renew
Combine desired aspects of photos
Alter photos with specific details removed or added
Change to a preferred color scheme -
Using the same subjects in an enlarged photo of an oil
painting containing a turn of the 19th century city scape in France, during
Spring with carts full of flowers for sale, horse drawn little
carriages, with cobblestone shiny wet, clothes lines
hanging high on balconies…
And also given - swatches of the materials - couch, chairs,
curtains, and carpet and paint color cards for the walls in
the room - desired size of my oil painting
I customize her desired painting to complement her living
room.
Statuary / relief plaque -
Given an unpainted plaster statue of the breed
Given clear photos of the same breed that has been chosen
for me to customize and
Given specific instructions if details that need to be
changed
Given a plaster relief plaque and
Given details of changes desire
Fairy Tales - Fantasy - Dragons
MEDIAS -may combine medias
Pencil, Color Pencil, Conti Crayon, Ink, Watercolor, Pastel Chalk, Oil Paint,
Acrylic Paint, Window Tempera Paint, Mixed Medias, Clays, Bees’ Wax
From 1988 and onward Terri’s life was filled with marriage, babies, homeschooling, many fractures, torn tendons, surgeries, and complications.
Crutches, walkers, canes, and wheelchairs became her means of mobility as she raised her daughter and five boys! Homeschooling was amazing. That too is another story!
Eventually the bone complications required her to undergo bone surgery. Still the broken bones wouldn’t heal. Then more surgeries for a couple years. St. Joseph’s Homeschool closed. Her oldest chose to attend Mount Michael High School. The youngest went with Terry’s trusted and well loved friend to preschool and more. The four in the middle spread out at St. Thomas More in regular classrooms.
Terry could not volunteer and donate money. She could attend very few events of any kind. She says that all of her life God has insisted, “DO WHAT YOU CAN DO.“… So she did.
In short, Terry sketched, then chalked, individual portraits of each eighth grader at STM (for fifteen years) and seniors (for four years at MM). As a mother, Terry gave these portraits to her fellow moms and dads. She wanted to, in a real way, reach out and personally touch and support and celebrate the parents who worked, sacrificed and persevered to give their children the best Catholic education they could. Terry told that to the Catholic Wanderer newspaper reporter who visited STM highlighting some ways parishioners at STM shared their time, talent and treasures. The principal, Dr. Willoughby, presented Terry with a presidential award for excellence for her “volunteering”.
Terry will tell you that she can draw anything that she can see and use any media she can pickup and just play with it. She just loves to do artwork! Terry, being a people person, naturally wants to give everything she can and to give the very best she can. She sees each person she serves as family who are unique individuals, valued and respected and beautiful with stories to tell through the Art they want her to do. By collaborating together, Terry can create a customized work of art that is personalized for the individual. Sometimes what we see in the end are hopes, memories, and mystery.
Terry knows she hasn’t come to her Art Work through conventional means. She believes she has so much more that she could learn from well-trained artists and artists who can make a thriving business from their art. Today, Terry is trying to support herself. She is starting here with a prayer that learning from everyone in this Fellowship of Catholic Artists and whoever comes into this artist’s story can train her in more than the Art Work. Terry says that she will do what she can and is keeping her eyes peeled for the outgoing (maybe shy), patient, generous wonderfully skilled, business person that she needs and that Our Lord is sending, to take Terry’s Art Work Story to the next level!
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Favorite/Patron Saint
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus Awards and Recognitions 1978 - County award. 1st place for sculpting and honorable mention for portraits and landscapes. Professional Groups/Affiliations Fellowship of Catholic Artists Where to Purchase Work Contact Terry directly. Upcoming Shows/Events Life is Beautiful: Visual and Performing Art Show, Holy Family Shrine, October 2022 |
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Contact Information
Preferred method of contact: Call
Terry meets with clients at her home or at public meeting spaces.
terrywiesepainting@gmail.com
(531) 225-4885 (call or text)
Hours
By appointment
Preferred method of contact: Call
Terry meets with clients at her home or at public meeting spaces.
terrywiesepainting@gmail.com
(531) 225-4885 (call or text)
Hours
By appointment
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