Jeremiah Backhaus #4 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Jeremiah Backhaus is a blacksmith. He utilizes old tools, hot fires and split second decisions to make pieces for the home, the shop, and even the campsite! The process is the same as the ancient masters, but the application is as modern as imagination.

For more information, Please contact at UmbrellaForge@gmail.com  

 

The tour artists met last night in the rain to pick up their tour flags, road signs and arrows.  In spite of the rain, we were all smiling behind our masks and sharing tips on how to make this year's tour safe, fun and as friendly as it always has been.   We were all hoping that the weather for tour week-end is NOT what is was last night!!  We invite you all to visit our website and view the short artists' videos to get a snapshot of what is store for you during the tour.  We hope it will help you plan your tour.  Click on this link and then scroll to the Art Studio Tour and click again.     http://www.cedarburgartistsguild.com

Laurie Shovers #7 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at lshovers@yahoo.com

Ilze Heider #7 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at www.ilze.com

The artists on the Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour this year will be making every effort to stay socially distanced and safe.  With that in mind, depending on mother nature, some are planning on doing outside demos, those in barns and garages will have their doors open.  In Mequon, watercolor artist, Alice Struck ( #20) is planning on moving her easel outside on Saturday at 2:00 ( Sunday same time rain date),  plein air oil painters, Lynn Rix( #18 ) and Pam Ruschman ( # 19) both will have an on-going demos set up outside of their studios for the entire tour. In Cedarburg, artists Susan Hale ( #9) and Joan Hollnagel ( # 11) will have art displayed outside and at the Fermentorium location, plein air artist, Michelle Savas ( #14) plans on setting up outside on Saturday from 12 - 2 pm.   In Grafton, Al Buss ( #4 ) will have a tent set up to display his sculpture and in his yard, blacksmith Jeremiah Backhaus ( #4) will be working over a fire the entire tour.  Also in Grafton, Kandy Gibson (# 6) will be creating raku pottery over a fire in her back yard all three days. 

Paula De Stefanis #7 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at www.paulaspalette.me

Michelle Savas Thompson #14 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

People need to have faith and believe in truth and perseverance in order to set themselves free while knowing they matter. I am telling a story, your story, a story that matters most to you. Thank you for being apart of that journey

For more information, Please contact me at savas@msavas.com

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Alice Struck #20 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Alice Struck has been an exhibiting watercolor artist for 30 years, teaching, showing in fairs and exhibiting in art shows around the Midwest.  Her large, expressive paintings are in corporate and private collections, also represented in the permanent collections of the Racine Art Museum, Northwestern Mutual and Ozaukee County.

For more information, Please contact me at aastruck@att.net

Renee Schreiner #2 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at artist54@live.com

Pamela Ruschman #19 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Pamela is best known for her bold and vibrant oil portraits of barnyard animals including cows, roosters and sheep.  Collectors say her paintings capture the personality of these furry and feathered friends.

She grew up on a dairy farm outside of Blanchardville, Wi.  As a young child, she fed the pigs and chickens as part of her daily chores and even helped raise orphan piglets under a warm heating lamp.  As she grew older, milking the cows and helping with crop harvest became part of her everyday life.  Needless to say, agriculture and the love of animals is in her heart.  She never imagined as a young child that these experiences on the farm would play such an important role in her painting career.

After more than a decade in the agricultural advertising industry, painting Wisconsin’s landscape and livestock has become her passion.  She uses both the alla prima (painting all at once) and plein air (in the open air) to influence her larger studio work.  Pamela adds, “Painting from life is such an important part of my process to provide information for my art.  Supplementing this with photography is necessary because it’s very difficult to tell a rambunctious rooster to hold a pose.”  

Drawing on her love of Wisconsin’s seasons, Pamela especially enjoys painting outdoors during the winter months.  It’s a quiet season, which suits her personality.

Often you will find Pamela driving down country roads searching for that next inspiration or setting up her easel with some friendly Wisconsin cows or snow filled landscape.

For more information, Please contact me at ruschman2013@gmail.com

Deb Rolfs #8 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

I am inspired by color, and incorporate bold colors in my paintings. I try to convey warmth, optimism and fun in my paintings. While I love the process of painting - creating and watching the painting unfold - my greatest joy in painting is when someone else enjoys the piece. 

For more information, Please contact me at debrolfs@gmail.com

Lynn Rix #18 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

  Lynn Rix began painting in 1995 while living in the south of France. She was physically and emotionally compelled to try to put down on canvas the beauty of the area. An inspiration that has sustained her in the pursuit of creating the fresh canvas.

Rix paints because she loves the challenge of looking at a familiar scene and simplifying it into shapes, colors and her own vision. Primarily painting  “en plein air”, with quick brush work and a limited palette, She is forced to work spontaneously.  Painting the Wisconsin rural landscape and small towns in all four of its unique seasons, gives Rix endless inspiration. 

For more information, Please contact me at lynn@lynnrix.com

Robert Powell #17 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Inspired by a love of nature, the cosmos, and the human form, Robert Powell’s soul is fed when he experiences the process of image conceptualization and creation. Robert seeks the natural beauty in everyday people, and uses his camera to tease out the magic found in daily life. His pictures evoke his subject’s stories.  https://robertpowellphotography.com

For more information, Please contact me at archerychampion@gmail.com

Bonita McComb #14 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Bonita works in acrylic, oils, watercolor and collage. Her works can be traditional to abstract depending on what ideas have peaked her interest.  An eclectic collection of work can be found in her studio.

For more information, Please Contact me at bonitamccomb5084@gmail.com

Terri Lockwood #13 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Terri is a mixed media painter and photographer with more recent emphasis on incorporating encaustic method and tools to her work. As a Wisconsin beekeeper and passionate nature lover, a harmonious process has developed using these combinations to achieve images that depict the beauty of the world around us. 

For more information, Please contact me at terrilockwoodart@gmail.com

Kelly Lemens #15 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please Contact at kellylemens@gmail.com

Claudette Lee-Roseland #8 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Claudette Is a painter of acrylic and oil/cold wax abstracts.  They range in size from 5’x5’ to 5”x5”.  She accepts commissions, working with the client on size, color and form.  She also works in landscape format, adapting client’s photos to a painting.

For more information, Please contact me at cldr@sbcglobal.net

Tom Kulich #12 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at tomdkulich@gmail.com

James Kiesow #1 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

James Kiesow is an artist living and painting on the shore of Lake Michigan. His love of all things wild, and where they live gives him inspiration. James’s paintings have been juried into many international shows including Birds in Art,  Art and the Animal, and Artists for Conservation.

For more information, Please contact me at jkiesow@wi.rr.com

Judith Kervin #11 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Influenced by ever changing patterns found in natural forms, Judith’s expressive work reflects the spirit of nature. Her work can be intuitive as well as realistic, as it captures an expressive response to geological imagery.

For more information, Please contact me at jkerv66@tutanota.com

Joan Hollnagel #10 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Humor defines much of my work; I want to remind people of the funny side of life. A work in mixed media primarily acrylics painting and clay sculpture have been labeled as sophisticated fantasy. 

For more information, Please contact me at artistjoan@sbcglobal.net

Susan Hale #9 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Susan Hale is a ”Contemporary Colorist” oil painter. Her work is known for its sense of joy and optimism. “Color is magic to me”, she says. She loves to paint plein air and in her studio overlooking  Cedar Creek.

For more information, Please contact me at s_hale@hotmail.com

Kandy Gibson #6 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Kandy Gibson is a utilitarian potter who creates pots that are visually pleasing and unique in character, but also useful in everyday life.  Each piece of stoneware pottery created reflects her enjoyment for throwing, carving, sketching, embellishing, creating and using. Most of her pieces are wheel thrown, but some are hand built.  The forms are usually organic in nature, which stems from her love of the balance observed in nature. 

For more information, Please Contact me at gardenviewpottery@gmail.com

Sue Frenzel #16 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Sue finds inspiration in Mother Nature’s endless forms, shapes and colors.

She expresses this in her jewelry pieces using varied metals, incorporating castings, etchings, shaping and enamels.

For more information, Please Contact me at ellnandersonarts@gmail.com

Barbara Dickmann #15 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Barbara's objective is the creation of functional stoneware on the potter’s wheel out of love for the circular form. In addition, she does hand-building of clay to round out her stoneware offerings. Her creations allow her to strive for inspired craftsmanship using the natural colors and textures of the earth. 

For more information, Please contact me at badickmann@yahoo.com

Al Buss #4 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at abstudio@aol.com

Bridget DeLoge #15 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

B’s Creative Glass

 Bridget DeLoge is an artist born and raised in Michigan. She holds Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University, with a concentration in watercolor. Although painting was the main focus in college, she now creates art in stained glass. She likes to create anything that comes to mind, letting the glass speak to her, as she works with the many colors and types of glass. She likes to incorporate wood and found objects into her designs. 

For more information, Please contact me at bridgetdeloge@gmail.com

Katherine de Shazer #14 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

The physical painting processes of grinding stones, breathing on clay, etc. connects Katherine to the physical world while the iconic artistic style and spiritual contemplation helps her to reveal images and translate the language of the mystical cosmos and human nature into the visible world of color, shape and symbols.

For more information, Please email me at katherine.deshazer@gmail.com

Karla Byl #5 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

For more information, Please contact me at rkbyl@msn.com

Carrie Bury #8 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Carrie Bury is a mixed media artist who lives and creates in Cedarburg, WI.  Carrie’s practice has centered on taking colors at their peak saturation and playing with different ways to apply them to the canvases in acrylic and bleeding tissue art paper to create loud and stimulating compositions. In 2018 Carrie joined the Cedarburg Artist Guild and since then has been exploring Plein Air, Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour and observational painting to diversify her practice.  Carrie enjoys Cedarburg’s creative culture and welcomes the opportunity to learn from her peers. 

For more information, Please contact me at cbury92@gmail.com

Jeff Austin #3 on the 2020 Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour stop Oct. 9-11th

Own some art for everyday use.  Buying handcrafted items offers a chance to own something unique in a world filled with the boring, mass produced clutter we are often surrounded by.  When you take your idea to Jeff he works with you to be sure you will have a piece that you can appreciate for years.  From chairs to cabinets, or cutting boards to bowls, his productions will stand out and enhance your space.

For more information, Please email me at jaustinwoodstudio@gmail.com