Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The ‘Creative Spaces Garden & Studio Tour’ returns on Saturday, July 8.
“This is a self-guided tour, and once you get your ticket, you can choose what gardens or artist studios you want to visit, in what order, and you can stay as long as you want at each place,” explained Nancy Kendel, a museum board member whose garden will be among those exhibited.
“We have 17 venues this year, 21 participating artists and gardeners,” added Managing Director/Curator Melanie Boyle.
Nancy: “When you drive around Cortes Island, what you see is driveways that go up into the forest. You don't really get an opportunity to see what other people are doing. Going on the garden tour allowed me to see what other people were doing and the beauty of other people's spaces because each garden is different and each garden is grown for different reasons, food production or maybe someone's just into roses.”
a list of the participants this year:
Curious Art Studio (Fillipe Figuera)
Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery (Monica Nawrocki, Ester Strijbos, Janny Thompson)
Brian Hayden; Gabriel Dinim
Heritage Garden, the Cortes Island Museum
Sarah's Organic 'Rainbow' Garden
Gerri Davis and George Lerchs; Kristen Schofield-Sweet
Fairhaven Gardens (Laura Ellingsen)
Nancy and Ray Kendel's garden
Juniper Bluffs, (Elizabeth Anderson's garden)
Tennant Farm, (Loretta and Don Tennant),
Sea Field Gardens (Martha Abelson),
Marion Cragg, weaving studio
Twilight Studio/Thistle Ranch (Jane Newman and Brian Scott).
Brilliant by the Bay (Connie Brill),
Bruce Ellington's Garden,
Nora Johnson and Jerry Preston's Garden
Hollyhock
