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Art and Garden Tour/CT Open House Day
at Willow Tree Pottery
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Join me this summer for our Art and Garden Tour/ CT Open House Day the second weekend of June. I will have outdoor lanterns, birdbaths, tankards, and flower jars as well as soup bowls, platters, baking dishes, mixing bowls and more. You can wander about my informal cottage gardens, visit the studio and see the kiln. Barbara Katz will have her wonderful garden sculptures set up throughout the gardens (you will want to bring one home for your garden!). On Saturday, Dorothy and Mark Drobney will set up a tent and offer Dorothy's photos and Mark's jewelry and ornaments. I will also have some of my daughter Gretchen Geromin's whimsical kitchen witch spoons.
In addition, there will be eight other gardens open and a total of twelve artists. The complete list is below.
Suzy
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My Blog About Books & Pots
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BibliPotter, my blog about books and pots, moved to my new website this winter. If you subscribe on
Networked Blogs, everything is the same. It will still come to you via NetWorked Blogs in your email. However though the website URL is the same, the blog url is slightly different, so if you subscribed via RSS you will need to update. Not a reader yet? Take a look.
BiblioPotter
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Please follow
Willow Tree Pottery on Facebook. See what's going on in the studio. Occasional tidbits about the ceramic world at large. Please take a look and, well, like if you like.
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Views of Willow Tree Pottery
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Not for wearing - a garden hat made of pottery. Just for fun.
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Stoneware pitcher, iron red glaze. Why put a plastic bottle on the table when you can serve in pottery? Photo by Joseph Szalay.
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Hanging birdbaths in the hawthorn tree.
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Stoneware platter. Iron red glaze. One of my most popular forms - for cookies, asparagus, whatever you like. Joseph Szalay photo.
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Art and Garden Tour Participants
Lance Arnold Lance Arnold of Lance Glass Studio makes the weather resistant fairy houses found in his garden and maintains a nearby children’s fairy house path. His nicely cluttered studio has paintings and sculpture in among more fairy houses. Garden: FLOWERS AND FAIRIES AND AVALANCHE BEETS. Fairy houses in the studio and on garden trails. 162 Amidon Road, Ashford 860-487-0848, [email protected] lanceglassstudio.com
Nancy Bunnell Nancy Bunnell paints abstracts, landscapes, flowers, and animals in pastels and multimedia. Garden: BE STILL. A meditative path meanders through the gardens and near a stream and frog pond. 12 Red Oak Hill, Willington 860-377-7817, [email protected]
Jane Collins Jane Collins paints flowers and farms in oil and watercolor. She has been growing organic herbs, vegetables, and flowers for over 30 years. Garden: HOMESTEAD GARDENS. Large organic herb, vegetable & flower gardens. 109 Bujak Road, Chaplin [email protected] http://www.janecollinsart.com
Dorothy Drobney Dorothy Drobney is a natural light photographer. She shoots landscapes, travel, and nature, as well as family and pet portraits, and business/product sessions at her studio or on location. With Suzy Staubach at Willow Tree Pottery, 24 Bebbington Road, Ashford, Saturday only [email protected] ddrobneyphotography.com
Mark Drobney Mark Drobney laser engraves artwork from the computer designs he creates. His work includes intricate wood/stained glass suncatchers and ornaments, jewelry, and custom designs. With Suzy Staubach at Willow Tree Pottery, 24 Bebbington Road, Ashford, Saturday only [email protected]
Barbara Katz Barbara Katz is a sculptor and potter working with clay creating vessels, cat mummies, spirit houses and out-door sculpture for your garden. With Suzy Staubach at Willow Tree Pottery, 24 Bebbington Road, Ashford 860-429-9580, [email protected] http://www.barbarakatz.net
Marylyn Makuch 32 Old Farms Road, Willington Marilyn Makuch uses stones, crystals, glass and wood for beadings and creating accessories. Garden: HAPPINESS IS A GARDEN AND CREATING. Fun garden sculpture 860-933-2291, [email protected]
Mary Noonan Mary Noonan paints in oil, watercolor and encaustic. Her little farm overflows with fauna and flora in a magical setting. Garden: MAGIC. Aquaponic garden with farm animals. 533 Chaffeeville Road, Mansfield [email protected]
Leanne Peters Leanne Peters loves to illustrate the hidden and seen life of the garden with oil and digital pen. The idea of “inner growth and light” continues to inspire the artist. With Mary Noonan, 533 Chaffeeville Road, Mansfield 860-429-7375, [email protected] https://www.artandalittlemagic.com
Shauna Shane Shauna Shane paints landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil, watercolors and pastels and creates garden sculptures in cements and other materials. Garden: FARM AND FIGURATIVE: Fishpond, columns, leaf sculptures. 287 Gurleyville Road, Mansfield 860-429-3646, [email protected] http://shaunashane.com
Patricia Shorey Pat Shorey has been working in stained glass for over 25 years and has been doing quilling (primarily of flowers) for 5 years. Garden: SMALL FAIRY GARDEN 1057 Tolland Stage Road, Tolland 860-558-1712, [email protected]
Suzy Staubach Suzy Staubach makes platters, baking dishes, bowls, birdbaths, outdoor lanterns, tankards and other pottery vessels inspired by English Country pottery. Garden: INFORMAL COTTAGE GARDENS. Old fashioned country or “grandmother’s” gardens. Willow Tree Pottery, 24 Bebbington Road, Ashford 860-287-8056, [email protected] http://www.willowtreepottery.us
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One Can Never Have Too Many Bowls!
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Please Save the Dates.
Potters' Market at the Coventry Farmers' Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead
October 8
First Congregational Church Art Show, Route 169, Woodstock
Octoboer 14 & 15
Artists' Open Studios of Northeastern Connecticut
November 24, 25, 26 & December 2 & 3
I will post more events as I book them. Hope to see you!
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In case you haven't read them already, here are my pottery books...
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Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind's Relationship with Earth's Most Primal Element. Published by the University Press of New England. Available at
independent bookstores.
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Guy Wolff: Master Potter in the Garden.
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Willow Tree Pottery, 24 Bebbington Road, Ashford, CT.
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