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Scroll through the lists of artists showing in Tiverton, 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!
#1 Michele L Bailey
#1 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 64 Pools Lane, Tiverton, RI 02878Michele L BaileyBOTH TOURSOIL/COLD WAX/PASTEL: Eclectic art inspired by nature and catshttp://www.MicheleLBailey.comWill provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Instagram!Michele works in pastel, and also in oils, and oil with cold wax. These mediums allow for layering with creates depth, richness of color, and luminosity to the art. Favorite subjects include landscapes of local forests, marshes, and seashores, as well as trees, egrets, cats, and some abstracts.Michele will have her pastel work station set up outside ("en plein air") for demonstrations throughout the Tour weekends. She will also guide you if you'd like to give it a try!Michele's studio is off Crandall Road; closest intersection is where East Road meets Crandall. Sorry, restroom not available. Also there are several steps up to the house, so unfortunately not wheelchair-accessible.
#2 Meredith Brower
#2 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Firefly Mandalas 630 Neck Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Meredith BrowerBOTH TOURSECO ART/PHOTOGRAPHY: The perfect connection of nature and artfireflymandalas@gmail.comhttps://www.fireflymandalas.com/401-474-1064Find us on Facebook! and Instagram!Forage | Focus | PhotographMeredith Brower, eco-artist and photographer is owner/operator of Firefly Mandalas and Meredith Brower Photography in Tiverton, RI.Each Mandala is foraged and photographed locally in Tiverton, RI. These mandalas are impermanent eco-art. A beautiful intersection of nature and art. Once captured at the moment of design, they are left to recycle back into nature and will never look the same as they did at the exact moment. Every Mandala is completely different in color, texture, movement and feel.Named after the inner fire that we all possess, these “Firefly Mandalas” were ignited in 2016. This new line includes note cards, tumbled marble coasters, mini notes, magnets, ornaments, aluminum wall panels & photographic prints.Meredith’s work is inspired by the farm coast, local beaches and ever-changing fauna at her farm in South Tiverton, RI, where she grew up and gratefully lives today with her mom and two new kittens Figgy & Pudding.Long quahog shell driveway, Porta potty available, wheelchair accessible ramp.
#3 Don Cadoret
#3 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 23 Reed St, Tiverton, RI 02878Don CadoretBOTH TOURSACRYLIC: Narrative story paintings on wood and canvascadorets@msn.comhttps://doncadoret.net/401-862-6115Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Don Cadoret is a story painter, a self-taught artist from Tiverton, who has been painting stories for over 45 years. His paintings have hung in many public and private collections across the United States, Canada and Europe, including the Clinton White House, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Attleboro Arts Museum, Newport Art Museum, and le Musee International d’Art in Montreal.Cadoret has worked with the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, the Visionary Museum in Baltimore, Shaker Museum in Pittsfield, MA, Battleship Museum in Fall River, and the Little Compton Historical Society.His work was represented by Frank Miele Gallery in New York City and Gallery Americana in Houston for many years. He has had works in many gallery exhibits including the Providence Art Club, Twist Gallery in Lexington, MA, and the Black Sheep Gallery in Toronto and Nova Scotia. Cadoret has exhibited alongside many important artists including Grandma Moses, Maud Lewis, Maxwell Mays, Justin McCarthy, Howard Finster, Janet Munro and Kathy Jakobsen.Ongoing demonstration of the process, from start to finish, on how to develop a story painting.
#4 Peter Dickison
#4 on the BrochureArtist showing at: 103 Fogland Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Peter DickisonBOTH TOURSOIL: Paintings of the mystery and beauty of natureart@peterdickison.comhttps://www.peterdickison.com401-787-7451Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Dickison makes a convincing case that painting is a powerful medium of symbol, sensualism and storytelling.His pieces evoke a feeling of being wrapped in something bigger than oneself, and the deliciousness slowly unveiling that in Nature which is not immediately visible or audible. Peter’s painting is a narrative that is about the artist being in a place of richness and inviting his audience to be there alongside him.
#5 Holly Dirks
#5 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Salubrious Endeavors 4240 Main Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Holly DirksBOTH TOURSPOTTERY: Functional earthy pottery and ocean life castingssalubriousendeavors@gmail.comhttps://www.salubriousendeavors.com/401-266-1684Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Holly Dirks' work and process is the perfect example of when an interest becomes a passion. She started playing with clay 8 years ago and now it is her full time project. Originally hailing from The Pacific Northwest and now residing in Tiverton, RI, Holly tends to incorporate elements of the ocean and mountains into her pottery. What makes her work unique and special is that she has developed many of her own glazes.These glazes reflect the colors and feelings that are evoked in her while being surrounded by the natural splendor of water and land. She knows them both well. Holly circumnavigated the North Atlantic Ocean, with her husband, on their sailboat. She has experienced many sea states from becalmed seas, gales, sunrises and sunsets in the middle of the ocean. She has also hiked into many of the alpine lakes in the Cascade Mountains in her home state of Washington.Holly's pottery pieces are meant to be used and loved freely. They are all oven proof, food, microwave and dishwasher safe. Her goal is for the owner of her pieces to also feel the connection to the ocean and mountains as they are being used.Studio is located at the top of the long driveway. Feel free to park at the top of the driveway. Our friendly dog Tilly will probably greet you.
#6 Lindsey Epstein
#6 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Lindsey Epstein Pottery 324 East Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Lindsey EpsteinBOTH TOURSPOTTERY: Crystalline glazed porcelain, handmade pottery and raku sculptureLindsey@lepottery.comhttps://lepottery.com508-317-9292Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Lindsey Epstein resides in Tiverton, RI where she now creates work from her studio. She has always enjoyed the outdoors, gardening and nature. Over the past 21 years, she has enjoyed exploring the limits of clay only to find that there are few. She is constantly excited by new possibilities and glaze techniques. Nature and animals are a recurring influence in how the piece moves or is decorated. Lindsey also specializes in growing tulips & dahlias on the pottery farm, and trains horses.Lindsey will demonstrate pottery making techniques, including wheel throwing.Plenty of parking. The studio has 5 steps to the entrance. You are welcome to enjoy viewing the dahlia gardens during your visit.
#7 Kelly l Milukas
#7 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Milukas Studio/Imagination Collaboration 503 Southlake Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Kelly l Milukas BOTH TOURSENCAUSTIC/PASTEL/MIXED MEDIA/SCULPTURE: Colorful abstracts - sculptor and visual storyteller and collaboratorkellymilukas@gmail.comhttps://kellymilukas.com/401-480-3536Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Kelly Milukas works and teaches in a variety of mediums, among them, encaustic, pastel, water and ink-based paints, and mixed-media-sculpture. In addition to teaching in her RI Studio/Lab, Kelly serves as Artist Instructor for R&F Encaustics, a regular master training instructor for the International Encaustic Conference at Truro Center for the Arts, MA, and a Master’s Circle Pastelist with the International Association Pastel Societies (IAPS), museum programs, private weeklong retreats, national corporate team building and creativity sessions, national residencies with bio-tech science teams, and currently a novel new residency concept with an interiors firm, Taste Design, RI. Channeling Kelly's Art Energy in Multi-Media her work leans abstract, and process driven. She has an unending curiosity for new experiences, knowledge, materials, new ways to wander, to love people, embrace science, and to keep learning how to laugh. “How to paint” is universal, “it’s the response to the experience I share that picks the medium and expression. That’s why I work in multimedia, and my work has many muses and voices." Her abstractions are often the language of celebrating scientific advancements for cures in medicine, or greatly inspired by music, imagination, and the simplest distillation of life’s expanding road trip. The works of whimsy are frequently cows from working farms, and all forms of nature. Kelly enjoys any chance to connect with her love of gleaming barns, funny farm animals, blooms, and the water. These moments become visual records of all that enthralls her.Encaustic Hot Wax Painting is the oldest painting medium in the world. It must be molten hot to use and fused with blow torches.Studio is a large industrial building, down the 2nd gravel driveway, with a large parking lot, and meditation gardens.
#8 Lauren Renée Quinn
#8 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Custom Mosaic Design 1129 Stafford Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Lauren Renée QuinnBOTH TOURSMOSAICS: Custom mosaics, handmade tiles and fused glass jewelrysales@custommosaicdesign.comhttp://custommosaicdesign.com609-892-1002Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook!Specializing in mosaics made from handmade clay tiles, marble, granite, fused glass, stained glass, and smalti. The work includes wall art, lamps, tables and more. Installations include backsplashes. floors, fireplaces and pools. Materials and techniques may be combined to create a mosaic based on your vision or one of our designs. I also create fused glass jewelry such as earrings, necklaces and other items.Tile making: I will demo the process of tile making from sketching a concept to making a mold, pressing the tile and bisque and glaze techniques
#9 Jennifer Jones Rashleigh
#9 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Cédian Painting: Studio-Gallery 3848 Main Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Jennifer Jones RashleighBOTHACRYLIC/FABRIC/MIXED MEDIA: Beach, botanicals, birds and fish on pillows, paintings and tilesjennifer@cedianpainting.comhttps://www.cedianpainting.com508-951-0696Find us on Facebook and Instagram!Wildlife and wild places inspire me. Every painting of birds, fish, botanicals, sea or landscape is a lively meditation that focusses my technique. I love to exploit the dexterity of the medium: simultaneously bold and subtle, powerfully kinetic yet sublimely sensitive to color and form. I work acrylic in every capacity: diluted washes, translucent gel coats, brushed, spilled, poured, knifed, dragged opacities, and thickly pulled impasto textures lifting off my canvases. Together detailed draftsmanship and impressionistic abstractions synthesize an organic process and a nature inspired visual poetry.Cédian Painting: Studio-Gallery is located in the heart of Historic Tiverton Four Corners.
#10 Ron Wenzel
#10 on the BrochureArtist showing at: Ron Wenzel Fine Art 92 Middle Ave, Tiverton, RI 02878Ron WenzelBOTH TOURSOIL: Landscapes, seascapes, and figuresronwenzel@me.comhttps://www.rawenzelfineart.com401-714-1904Find us on Instagram!Ron Wenzel's paintings hover between abstraction and realism. The work is colorful and impressionistic. They are all painted with a palette knife on MDF-board, capturing the texture and beauty of the subject.Long driveway and parking on Middle avenue.
#11 Brenda Wrigley Scott and Pat Warwick
#11 on the BrochureArtists showing at: Wrigley Studio 3852 Main Rd, Tiverton, RI 02878Brenda Wrigley ScottBOTH TOURSPAINTING: Paintings of flora and fauna and companion animal portraitswscott22@cox.nethttps://wrigleydesign.com401-339-9676Will provide ongoing demonstrations throughout the Tour weekend.Find us on Facebook and Instagram!I have been working in the field of Decorative Arts for over 30 years- pottery, custom interior tile, painting, constructed hand -painted screens and murals.In addition to these services, I have been painting on canvas, board and paper. My primary subject matter is Animals- companion and farm and most recently beach and marsh birds. Paintings are on paper as pages of a sketchbook, as quick drawings done in the field and embellished in the studio. I can also be contacted for a personalized portrait of your favorite companion animal.I am a member of the Tiverton R.I. Arts Council, the South Coast Artists, and The Foundry Artists.Studio is located at the lower level, garden entrance facing Arch Ceramics in the Sole Seabury House in Tiverton Four Corners. Restroom is available.________________Pat WarwickBOTH TOURSOIL/MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE: Energetic abstract paintings and collages in oils and mixed mediapatwarwickart@gmail.comhttps://www.patwarwick.com401-481-0721Find us on Instagram! Pat's abstract landscapes and collages endeavor to share her perspective on the Rhode Island coastal environment that has become her inspiration. Often times it is the broader picture of the beaches, sea, and marshes, but just as often it is the small things that catch her eye as in the flotsam and jetsam that washes ashore or collects in the seagrass.
