Contributed by Annette Verna | It’s summer of 2026 already, can you believe it? In July the pace accelerates for the Over the Mountain Studio Tour artists. Our annual Summer Preview Show and Sale opens July 10. What looks to be effortless to our visitors really takes planning and preparation throughout the year. We arrange the venue and the dates. Each artist decides what work they will contribute, we complete our inventory sheets and deliver our work on the appointed day. Inventories...

Contributed by Rod Glover I’m taking a break this year from my usual schedule in the studio to spend some time traveling, visiting places I’ve never been or can’t wait to return to. As an artist, I often spend countless hours refining technique, reworking ideas, and looking for new discoveries as my work progresses. But creativity does not exist in isolation and I feel a need to wander. Creative energy can become depleted when we remain too long in the same environment, surrounded by the same...

Written by Diane Myers Time to Shear the sheep at Bridget Brown's Farm The theme of this post began as one of spring, that ephemeral season of surprises and better weather when thoughts turned to springtime, then just time. The word "time" filters itself into our everyday language almost excessively. There is "time to go", "dinnertime", "timeless treasures", not enough "time", "time" goes by, good "times", what "time" is it? I think that artists have a a unique relationship with time and...