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Scroll through the lists of artists showing in Little Compton, RI. When you find a studio that you want to visit, you can tap the ‘GO THERE’ button or click on the link for the address within the artist description - that will take you directly into Google Maps with the studio address. The ALL ARTISTS tour lists all of the artists on the tour. Scrolling down, you can view the artists by town or by date. Continue scrolling and you will find a tour with our supporting Gallery & Studio Space Sponsors, Food & Drink Sponsors and all of our Sponsors.Within the artist profiles, you can swipe to see more images of the artists’ work, detailed descriptions and links to their websites & social media (where applicable). You can tap the heart icon in the upper right-hand corner of the images to easily save & find an artist again. To navigate back to the tour, tap the arrow in the upper left-hand corner.-----SCA features two open studio tour weekends, July 20-21 and August 17-18, 2024 and includes 75 exhibiting artists. Our 2024 Tours mark the 21st Annual South Coast Artists Studio Tours. Click here to download a .pdf of the 2024 Brochure.This is your chance to visit the studios of some of the best artists living, working and exhibiting in the four beautiful coastal towns of Tiverton & Little Compton, RI. and Westport & Dartmouth, MA.The self-guided tour will take you across small highways and rural byways of stunning natural beauty. Along the way, you’ll discover the work of welcoming artists working in such diverse mediums as oils, acrylics, watercolors, photography, sculpture, basketry, fiber arts, ceramics, glass, wood, metal, jewelry, paper and mixed media.If you can’t make it to every studio on the tour, remember that each artist can be reached through SCA’s Artist Member Directory on the website and plans can be made with individual artists for a visit some other time.Both Open Studio Tour weekends are free, open to the public, and require absolutely no registration. Click here for the 2024 brochure. We hope you can join us. Thank you!
#12 Peter Aldrich and Karen Melanson
#12 on the BrochureArtists showing at: 64-A Swamp Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Peter AldrichAUGUST 17 & 18 OnlyOIL/CHARCOAL/ACRYLIC: Landscapes, portraits, still life and baseball scenespcaldrich@me.comhttps://www.peter-aldrich.com401-635-8816Perhaps more accurately, I paint what I think I see, or saw. I paint what I see.After an absence of over forty years, I came back to painting. My first lessons in drawing and oil painting really became lessons in seeing. I slowly realized that my businessman’s eyes had to become the eyes of a painter. Looking at the world through my new eyes is refreshing, and to me, surprising. Color, for instance, now presents to me a richer array of nuance and meaning. Shapes, planes, shadows, all have euclidean vibrancy to which I had previously been blind.I attempt in my painting to capture a moment in time, of my own vision, of the world as I see and feel it. If I am fortunate in a painting, I also manage to evoke for the viewer some feelings in turn. I strive for visual clarity that hopefully incorporates some subtle ambiguity of tone and mood. (I rarely achieve this.)I paint for myself. I have no message, nor mission. I love the endeavor, and the activity of painting. For me, it is a selfish endeavor. Time either stops, or whizzes by when I paint; I have yet to figure which. Suffice it to say that I loose the perception of time. The pleasure captures me completely. Only fatigue, frustration, or an obligation can bring me back to “real time”. I am pleased if others find pleasure in something I have rendered, but that is just a frosting pleasure.I paint quickly.A very long tree-lined driveway (quarter mile) brings you to the Aldrich "Barn" (big doors). PLEASE park in the field just behind the barn/studio. Thank you_____________Karen MelansonAUGUST 17 & 18 OnlyPASTEL: Colorful paintings of waves, seashore, marshes, flowers and sunsetskarenm133@gmail.comhttps://www.karenmelanson.comKaren loves to paint bright, vibrant, colorful pastels of the Southcoast. Living in Westport, she loves to capture the beauty and magic of the coastline, beaches, waves, marshes, sunsets and flowers in her paintings. She loves to paint Plein air and considers the outdoors her studio.
#13 Heidi Baxter
#13 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Sakonnet Point Studio 106 Sakonnet Point Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Heidi BaxterBOTH TOURSOIL/ACRYLIC/INK: Contemporary paintings emphasizing color, space, and harmonystudio@heidibaxter.comhttps://www.heidibaxter.com617-417-0701
#14 Dot Bergen
#14 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Dot Bergen Art 8 Sakonnet Trl, Little Compton, RI 02837Dot BergenBOTH TOURSENCAUSTIC: Abstractions from nature - encaustic, mixed media, cold wax and oilinfo@dotbergenart.comhttps://www.dotbergenart.com508-878-5898Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Dot is an abstract encaustic artist. She is intrigued by processes that reference the passage of time including fossilization, mineralization, weathering and erosion. Dot captures temporal landscapes through texture and color, in order to build surface topographies that reflect change over time. Encaustics is the art of painting with molten beeswax. Dot often incorporates fibers such as silk, cotton and wool into the wax to create and build texture. This gives her pieces a sculptural look.Drive past the house--the studio and parking are in the back.
#15 Cheri Burchard
#15 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 8 Meetinghouse Ln, Little Compton, RI 02837Cheri Burchard BOTH TOURSACRYLIC/OIL/WATERCOLOR: Abstractions from nature in an impressionist stylerbcb40@gmail.comhttp://www.blackberrycreekartists.com/cheri_burchard.htmlWill provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Cheri Burchard began art lessons at age 9 from a professor at Elmira College and has continued studying in the U.S. and abroad. In her golden years Cheri still enjoys learning and producing thought provoking and, hopefully, beautiful art. She uses techniques, textures, and colors to call out the essence of the subject. Because of her years of study and practice of the foundational principles of art, she is able to break the rules with confidence and joy. Cheri’s paints brilliant or moody landscapes, joyful flowers horses and birds. To see her art in person is to feel it. Cheri’s subjects are varied, but her style is recognizable and uniquely hers.Studio is in the side entrance of the barn.
#16 Kris Donovan
#16 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Donovan Studio 9 Donovan Way, Little Compton, RI 02837Kris DonovanBOTH TOURSOIL/WATERCOLOR/PASTEL: Traditional paintings of the South Coast, the sea, and lifeinfo@krisdonovan.comhttps://krisdonovan.com401-683-8308Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Whether working on location or in her studio in Little Compton, RI, Kris Donovan continually strives to capture her impression of the Sakonnet landscape and other magical coastal venues. Her still life's reflect her passion for expressing the light and feeling of the simple joys life has to offer. Working in pastel, watercolor, and oil allows her to capture the unique landscape in a special way depending on the mood, season, and subject. She paints what she knows best and the appeal of her work stems from a keen eye for accuracy and detail blended with a balance of light and color. Visit Donovan Studio to see works in watercolors, oils, pastels, and acrylic. Commissions gladly considered. Private instruction offered.You will find Donovan Studio at the bottom of Donovan Way in Little Compton just feet away from Almy Marsh in it's new permanent location! Ample parking but please follow the signs.
#17 Shane Dorey
#17 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Dorey Glass Design 18 South of Commons Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Shane DoreyBOTH TOURSGLASS: Hand blown glass artshanedorey2000@gmail.comhttps://www.goldenboyglass.com401-662-9738Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Instagram!Shane uses a 2000 degree furnace holding molten glass to create unique and beautiful sculptures. Using hollow steel rods along with a variety of hand tool Shane is able to move and shape the molten glass into nearly anything he imagines.Shane will be demonstrating his glass blowing techniques for the duration of the tour.The studio is in the garage at the bottom of the driveway. Studio is mostly handicap accessible. There is a bathroom in the studio although it is not that accessible and definitely not handicap accessible. We will have tables with umbrellas set up outside along with refreshments.
#18 Mary Ellen Flinn
#18 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Early Time Carving 273 Long Hwy, Little Compton, RI 02837Mary Ellen FlinnAUGUST 17 & 18 OnlyWOOD/ACRYLICS/ANTIQUE FRAGMENTS: Sculptures with hand carved wood, antique fragments and acrylicsetcarving@cox.netFlinn is a self-taught wood carver and painter. She creates unique folk art style sculptures incorporating hand carved wood, antique fragments and acrylic paints. Subject matter can include people, animals and marine life. Some pieces are interactive and include mechanical features.
#19 William Gajda
#19 on the BrochureArtist showing at: William Marshall Studio 124 Long Hwy, Little Compton, RI 02837William GajdaBOTH TOURSWOOD/METAL: Functional products utilizing wood and/or metalWill provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook!William Gajda started his career as a Tool & Die maker by trade and woodworking as a hobby. William enjoys refurbishing old antique furniture bringing the furniture back to life rather than at a landfill. William now makes furniture along with other items using the skills he learned. The work he creates includes dining and console tables with metal legs (industrial look), clocks, specialty cutting and charcuterie boards, desks, cabinets, specialty made metal hinges for heavy barn doors, etc. The wood he utilizes is usually local to New England. There are cases he does use exotic woods for his cutting boards which may include Zebra along with purple heart wood. William has his own studio which includes a tool room and woodshop where he spends his time making and creating custom items.
#20 Joanne E Gregory
#20 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Seascape Studio LC 37 Grange Ave, Little Compton, RI 02837Joanne E Gregory BOTH TOURSSHELLS/SEA LIFE/GLASS BEADS: Sailor's Valentines, sea-inspired wall hangings and jewelryseascapestudiolc@gmail.comhttps://www.joannegregoryshellart.com401-662-3925Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Joanne has loved everything about the sea and its shore since she was a young girl collecting shells, rocks, and glass on trips to the beach every summer, something she still enjoys doing today. She came across her first Sailor's Valentine while browsing at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Intrigued by their raw beauty and history, she began researching and discovered modern-day artists filling beautiful octagon shaped boxes with unique shell designs meticulously arranged from thousands of seashells, urchins, and corals that she collects and purchases from around the world. When creating her Sailor's Valentines, Joanne carefully sorts her chosen seashells according to size, shape and color and carefully places them one at a time in a specially made wooden box. Boxes are made from a variety of wood with her favorite being tiger maple. Each unique Sailor's Valentine takes up to six months to complete. Finished works range from six to fifteen inches in diameter.Joanne's other works include bead and shell embroidered wall hangings and custom bead embroidered jewelry.Joanne will be demonstrating her process of the intricate art of creating Sailor's Valentines and bead embroidered shell art.Parking is located in front of the garden shed.
#21 Janie Kinnane
#21 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Charlie Lou 26 Main St, Little Compton, RI 02837Janie KinnaneBOTH TOURSPRINTMAKING/WATERCOLORS: Coastal inspired block prints and watercolors of animals and botanicalsShopcharlielou@gmail.comhttps://shopcharlielou.myshopify.comFind us on Instagram!
#22 Carolyn Lock
#22 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Carolyn Lock Fine Art 158 Quicksand Pond Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Carolyn LockBOTH TOURSOIL: Paintings in dynamic perspective and expressive colorcarolyn.lock@comcast.nethttp://www.carolynlock.com617-823-6982Find us on Instagram!Carolyn photographs her subject-matter on site, then composes and paints in her studio. She is attracted by large scale structures such as bridges, as marvels of engineering that are built to integrate people with the landscape. She uses a bold color palette, far removed from the grays of concrete and steel, to enliven her art and bring the viewer into places seldom noticed.The gravel road to my studio passes fields and through woods before emerging at your destination. Keep coming! Free cucumbers, in season. Plenty of parking.
#23 Johanna W. McKenzie
#23 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Mollynook Studio 15 South of Commons Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Johanna W. McKenzieBOTHOIL: Landscapes and seascapes in the American Luminist traditionjohanna@mollynook.comhttp://mollynook.com401-635-8958Willing to provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Johanna is a committed realist painter who works in many media. She paints primarily in oil on panel. She has created "paintings in wool" -- hangings and pillows -- applying traditional American rug hooking techniques to her painting practice. She has also created encaustic paintings that she has most recently experimented with transfer to metal as "outdoor paintings". Her passion for landscape painting reflects her obligation to document the glorious New England landscape before development and the ravages of climate change transform the environment.Johanna begins a painting at the opening of the Studio Tour that she works on throughout the openings. When visitors arrive, she pauses and explains her process and highlights the point she has reached in creating the final work.
#24 Monica J Pereira
#24 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Thou Art 16 Long Hwy, Little Compton, RI 02837Monica J PereiraBOTH TOURSACRYLIC: Colorful landscapes and seascapes inspired by Godmmp529@live.com401-314-5863
#25 Josie Richmond
#25 on the BrochureArtist showing at: The Art Cafe 7 South of Commons Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Josie Richmond BOTH TOURSPRINTMAKING/ENCAUSTIC: Overlapping landscape perspectives, printmaking and encausticJosiearkins@gmail.comWill provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.I will have my hot plate on all day explaining the hot wax process.
#26 Michelle Smith and Taylor Smith
#26 on the BrochureArtists showing at: Heartsrock Healing Arts 31 South of Commons, Little Compton, RI 02837Michelle SmithBOTH TOURSOIL/PHOTOGRAPHY: Fine art photography and landscape paintingsmwaltersmith@gmail.com781-812-3950Michelle Smith is in her element when expressing her love of light, color and relationships. Her photos and paintings uniquely interpret a place or person that inspire something beautiful to her. She believes all of life is in constant movement; no moment is the same. In her paintings she uses layering of the paint and color to create a sense of movement, and her photos create movement by using in camera techniques with minimal post processing.Pump House Studio is located at 31 South of the Commons. The studio is on the left of the driveway across from the big house. Please do not park near the orange cones. Thank you___________Taylor SmithBOTH TOURSOIL: Landscape and nature oil paintinginfo@ionextechnologies.com781-934-2108Taylor Smith has been painting since 2016 when he joined a painting group at the Plymouth Center for the Arts under the guidance of Dorothy Simone. He is constantly on the lookout for places in nature with unique characteristics. He works to translate the scenes visually to emphasize the special aspects of the area in order to engage the imagination of the viewer. His exhibits include member shows at the Plymouth Russell Gallery and the Provincetown Art Association Museum (PAAM), a two person show with his wife Michelle at the Plympton Public Library in the fall of 2023, and a solo artist exhibit at the Café Gallery in the Narrows Center for the Arts in the winter of 2024.
#27 Galen V Snow
#27 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Galen V Snow, Fine Art 220 W. Main Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Galen V SnowBOTH TOURSPAPER MONTAGE: Nature inspired paper paintings of flora, fauna and 'scapesgalenartist1@gmail.comhttps://www.gvsart.com401-499-3586Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Paper Montage (updated terminology for collage) has been Galen's medium for the past 11 years. It is an extremely time consuming process of which an 8 x 10 can take upwards of 60 hours to complete. She cuts and tears handmade papers, rice paper and imported fine papers to first layer the backgrounds of each piece with color. If she doesn't have the exact color paper she wants, she makes the color by gluing one color of paper over the other, creating the perfect hue in her minds eye, with a depth of transparency she's not seen with other mediums. She then use high quality, opaque and textural magazine pieces, each individually cut, to layer the subject (a bird or flower for example) on top of the background. She has found this gives a good sense of depth within the painting. The larger pieces, such as commissions and land/seascapes, can take months to complete; however, she does enjoy the larger format to achieve the perspectives needed to make the work feel as if one is standing right there. Many people think she uses paint to enhance her pieces, but, it is only paper and glue, or Paper Montage: 'Painting with Paper".Galen has given many demonstrations over the years. She loves to interact with the people who ask questions and watch her process in person. The layering of the papers is always the high point, as people see just how intense this process is! Over the past 13 years of the SCA Open Studio, she has always had ongoing 'demos' to both explain the layering process and why it takes so many hours to complete. The question usually gets asked: "Do you make your own paper", the answer is always a resounding "No! The process is lengthy enough!"The studio of gvsart is in the back of the main house, set back off the road. There will be signs directing you where to park. Please follow them!
#28 Raquel Valcourt-deCosta and Stephanie Stroud
#28 on the BrochureArtists showing at: 15 Colebrook Rd, Little Compton, RI 02837Raquel Valcourt-deCosta BOTH TOURSMIXED: Metallic and plaster works and hand painted glasswareinsidesign70@gmail.com401-625-1995Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook!As a Decorative painter by trade, Raquel incorporates custom plaster applications with metallic and acrylic paints as well as gold and bronzing leaf to her artwork. Layering of these materials brings depth and unique reflective qualities. She also hand paints glassware, fires them to adhere the paint to each pieceDemonstrations will be August Only.....Raquel will be painting glassware as well as demonstrating plaster and metallic paint applicationsWe have parking on the premises, along the driveway. we have handicap parking aside of the gallery. We have a restroom available._______________Stephanie StroudBOTH TOURSDECORATIVE FIBER: Impressionistic, nature inspired, wool paintings created by felting dyed woolstephanie.stroud@hotmail.comhttps://www.stephaniestroud.net/carousel.php?galleryID=225268508-493-0789Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Stephanie Stroud received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design where she majored in illustration. A fiber artist who “paints with wool,” she creates impressionistic felted paintings inspired by nature. Primarily a landscape artist, she is inspired by the variation in landscape that the world around us offers. “I work in fiber because I am a maker; I enjoy the process and tactile experience involved with assembling to create while appreciating the forgiveness and immediacy that wool allows. Texture and tactile experience are important in my process.” Painting with fluffy bits of unspun colored wool involves a delicate and deliberate layering of color to capture light, texture, and depth in soft impressionistic scenes, incorporating an element of the unexpected. The results are traditional landscapes created in an unconventional way that invite a second look. Stephanie shows her work at regional art shows including the South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour. Recently, she was awarded Best in Show for her interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Wheat Field and Cypresses” at the annual Fakes and Forgeries exhibit at Spring Bull Gallery. Stephanie is a Custom Framing Designer at Riverside Art in Somerset Massachusetts and is currently the Membership Chair for South Coast Artists.Discover how fluffy bits of colored wool can be transformed into impressionistic landscapes. Stephanie will demonstrate how she paints with unspun wool by needle felting, mixing colors by carefully layering and creating texture and depth with color.
