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Tour Four Private Studios and a Lavender Farm*See behind the scenes in each studio and learn how each artist creates their unique body of work.
*See the work of Guest Artists and Growers. *Stroll through the gardens and outer spaces where they find peace and inspiration. Scroll down to see all Studios and guest artists! |
Stop #1: Teresa Wooden
Stone Forest Pottery
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Stone Forest Pottery 5955 141st Ave. Holland, MI 49423 262-716-9477 twooden@sfpots.com http://www.stoneforestpottery.com |
Teresa Wooden works in stoneware and porcelain, specializing in sgraffito (carved designs through colored clay layers), animal sculptures, garden art and bird houses.
Teresa's studio is attached to a unique earth-sheltered home. You are invited to tour the rooftop garden she planted in 2016, featuring lavender, perennials, and a unique straw bale vegetable garden. Visit the Fairy Garden along the woodsy path. Teresa will be demonstrating throwing on the wheel each day. Light snacks and a beverage will be offered.
Stone Forest Pottery Guest Artists and Growers:
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Kay and Lee Ver Schure , WestView Farms kay@westviewfarms.biz Growers of the finest perennials, herbs, edibles, ornamentals, and specialty shrubs in the area. Long-time participants in the Holland Farmers’ Market, Kay and Lee possess an incredible amount of information and expertise about all green and growing things which they are eager to share. |
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Estelle Serena, Serena's Heirloom Rugs estelle@serenaheirlooms.com Estelle is an accomplished weaver, with 25 years' experience creating beautiful, colorful, and durable 100% wool rugs. Every rug is one-of-a-kind, reversible and machine washable. She takes custom orders as well! |
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Chris Swinson, Mycophile's Garden chris@mycophile.org Chris at Mycophile's Garden has been growing, foraging, and arranging mushrooms and wild foods since 2014. In addition to fresh mushrooms, Chris looks to share his passion for fungi by selling mushroom grow kits, mushroom arrangements and edible centerpieces. He's happy to answer any mushrooms question you may have and is available for educational presentations and cultivation courses. |
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Judy Anthrop, Paintings in Watercolors and Oil Judy spends time each year painting on location in Apalachicola, Florida's Pan Handle, and Maine. She will be offering paintings of local and regional scenes, such as Oval Beach, Pier Cove, Kazoo River, the Dunes, Saugatuck and Douglas. |
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Mike Van Houzen, Songbirds of Wood mvanhouzen@gmail.com Mike's sculptures are primarily hand-carved songbirds, but may include birds of prey and shorebirds, using Basswood exclusively. Each feather is carved separately with hand chisels and textured with a pyrographic pen. The birds are painted with acrylics using a technique of washes and fine brush strokes to achieve softness and life-like characteristics. |
Stop #2: Pat Rempel
Pat's Yellow Barn Studio
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* Paintings in Oil, Watercolor, and Pastel
* Mature Gardens and Water Features * Two Guest Artists |
Pat's Yellow Barn Studio 6060 Bluebird Lane Hamilton, MI 49419 patrempel@gmail.com 616-218-4152 https://www.patsartstudio.com/ |
Pat Rempel works out of her home studio, named the "Yellow Barn" for the quaint outbuilding at the edge of her gardens. An avid gardener, Pat has created a number of different gardens and water features surrounding her home in the countryside near Saugatuck. Pat's watercolors have been published in the International Artist publication, "100 ways to paint Still Life & Florals" and "100 ways to Paint Flowers & Gardens", and have also been featured in "The Artist Magazine". Her work is exhibited in museums, hospitals, businesses and Universities throughout the country.
The Yellow Barn Studio Guest Artists:
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Sue Fleming, Textiles Sue Fleming designs and creates one of a kind garments using discarded 100% cashmere sweaters. The creative process includes the use of a sewing machine, serger, and embroidery to embellish wearable art. |
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Jill Lareaux, sculptures in ceramic and bronze An accomplished sculptor, Jill works primarily in stoneware out of her home studio near Hamilton, Michigan. Some of her works have been cast in bronze as well. Focusing on the human form, Jill creates intriguing, sometimes whimsical figurative sculpture both large and small in scale. Some of her work will be exhibited in situ among the gardens at Yellow Barn Studio. |
Stop #3: Cynthia McKean
cMc Design
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cMc Design Studio 1000 Mason St. Saugatuck, MI 49453 616-610-0053 cmcdesign@cynthiamckean.com http://www.cynthiamckean.com |
Cynthia McKean (cMc Design) works in painted, structural steel plate creating abstract and representational forms, the smallest of which is 6" high and the tallest of which is 32' high.
Nestled behind a grove of white poplars, near a bog, and surrounded by woods is Cynthia's studio, fondly referred to as "the Barn". This is the hub of her activity, where she dreams dreams, builds models, and displays her smaller work.
Featured in the barn is a collection of presentations she has made when responding to specific requests for proposal. Some were rewarded and some not. Giving visitors a bird’s eye view of the process enlightens their understanding of the complexity and magnitude of what is involved in creating large scale steel sculpture. Great barn doors swing open into the sculpture garden where one can stroll among brightly colored steel creations. Sculptures range in size from monumental in the meadow to more modest along hidden paths. A light bite to eat and a cool beverage will greet visitors.
Nestled behind a grove of white poplars, near a bog, and surrounded by woods is Cynthia's studio, fondly referred to as "the Barn". This is the hub of her activity, where she dreams dreams, builds models, and displays her smaller work.
Featured in the barn is a collection of presentations she has made when responding to specific requests for proposal. Some were rewarded and some not. Giving visitors a bird’s eye view of the process enlightens their understanding of the complexity and magnitude of what is involved in creating large scale steel sculpture. Great barn doors swing open into the sculpture garden where one can stroll among brightly colored steel creations. Sculptures range in size from monumental in the meadow to more modest along hidden paths. A light bite to eat and a cool beverage will greet visitors.
cMc Design Studio Guest Artists:
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Lloyd Mandelbaum, Metal Sculpture Chicago Crucible chicagocrucible@gmail.com Lloyd owns and operates Chicago Crucible, a foundry specializing in fine art casting near Hamilton, MI. Lloyd also creates his own sculptural work in iron, aluminum and bronze. He will be offering demonstrations in metal pouring at scheduled times each day of the tour; check back for specific times. |
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Mary Alice Townsend, Textiles
townsend03@comcast.net Mary Alice is a textile artist and will be demonstrating this fascinating art form in the making. |
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Corwinne Stoppel, Author Crorwinne is a local author, writing a series of mystery novels which use local settings such as Saugatuck, MI. |
Stop #4: Dan McGavin and Carol Brown
Summerhouse Lavender Farm
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Summerhouse Lavender Farm 2975 65th St. Fennville, MI 49408 616-318-5793 Carolbrown02@gmail.com http://www.summerhouselavenderfarm.com |
Selling lavender plants and lavender based skin care products, both Pure Lavender and Serene Garden. We will also offer tours of the farm and garden and explain how best to grow lavender and explain our commitment to the environment. See the lavender distillery. We have a trail around the property that leads people through lavender processing stations, a birch grove, lavender beds, and interesting landscaping that include a water feature and a Japanese garden.
Summerhouse Lavender Farm Guest Artist:
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Mike Vermerris , raku ceramics
mnvermerris@gmail.com Mike’s focus is hand built, raku fired pottery. Raku pottery is beautifully unpredictable, and Mike finds the spontaneity and surprise exciting; while using the flame and carbon to enhance his work. His pieces are fired to 1850 degrees and quickly removed from the kiln and transferred to a container filled with combustibles. The hot pottery immediately ignites these materials and starts the chemical reaction that results in these one-of-a-kind pieces; not possible with other firing methods. During the Artz and Gardenz Tour, Mike will explain techniques used for forming his pots, while sharing his excitement for the raku process. |
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Ian Cross, Landscape Paintings Ian's body of work traditionally comes in the form of relief prints, etchings and lithographs, however his recent landscape paintings have all been created on different sizes of brown Kraft paper grocery bags. Ian utilizes the visual irony created by painting landscapes onto recycled everyday objects. "By revealing the landscapes in this way, it helps to reframe my concerns about environmental issues and serves as an object that directly overlaps nature and commerce." |
Stop #5: Dawn Stafford
Peachbelt Studio
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Peachbelt Studio 6292 124th Ave. Fennville, MI 49408 269-561-5561 dawn@peachbeltstudio.com http://www.peachbeltstudio.com |
The Peachbelt Studio is a little red brick one-room school, formerly the Peachbelt Schoolhouse ca.1867, which serves as Dawn Stafford’s year-round painting studio where she seasonally exhibits original oil paintings on linen, canvas, paper and miniatures on wood. Enjoy a pre-season stroll through the schoolhouse backyard garden, playhouse, and orchard hill. A selection of Dawn’s original charcoal drawings on paper, encaustic paintings on wood, Lithograph and Giclee prints, and many gift cards are also available.
Peachbelt Studio Guest Artists:
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Christine Bruno, jewelry
townhallstudio@gmail.com www.townhallstudio.com Christine Bruno is a jewelry designer who creates one-of-a-kind jewelry, using fabrication and metalsmithing techniques. She and her husband live in what once was the 1892 Casco Town Hall, in South Haven, MI. An additional building on the property houses their studios and gallery. She is open by appointment year-round and most weekends from May through October (11am - 5pm, please call to be certain she's open), |
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Judy Hallisy, Murano glass
judybooks@msn.com Judy incorporates a 700 year old Italian technique from the Island of Murano which is characterized by the use of multicolored glass or millefiori, meaning "one thousand flowers" in Italian. The result; complex organic garden-like designs that dance across the surface of tall cylinders and "flats". Her collection is available to view at her bookstore/gallery Singapore Books in Saugatuck. |
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Carolyn Fink, Metal Design carolynfink@sbcglobal.net http://www.carolynfink.com An expert welder, Carolyn designs metal garden art and other items. She says, "Firing up the forge, hammering red hot steel, grinding the rust off a piece othat was once discarded in a tangled heap and creating art from unusual found objects makes every day a surprise." Currently she is inspired by a natural leaf theme, using metal "drops" (purchased trims leftover from steel construction orders) and found pieces of scrap metal. |
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Hinterland Farm and Kitchen, Food Items and Arts
www.hinterlandfarmkitchen.com hinterlandfarmkitchen@gmail.com Hinterland Farm and Kitchen is located on a small farm in Pullman, MI, owned and operated by two working artists/farmers, Shanna Shearer and Mikey Henderberg. We grow garlic, cherry tomatoes, greens, popping corn, oyster mushrooms, horseradish, and many other vegetables and herbs all grown without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizers. We make and sell packaged food items: pasta, chocolate bars, hot sauce, medicinal mushroom teas, and black garlic. As working artists we also sell paintings, collages, and traditional Japanese-bound sketchbooks. |