Willington
Nancy Bunnell
Group Show
I have a fishpond surrounded by a butterfly bush and butterflies. I am married to a retired landscaper. Together we create and build upon existing flower beds and create vegetable gardens starting in April, The uniqueness of this garden lies in the wide variety of colorful flowering shrubs from azalea, to lilac garden, a hydrangea garden, to a flowering 30 ft, Rhododendron a mature tree coated with white dogwood blossoms. and fruit trees all in a variety of colors blooming throughout the seasons. I call it a bit of heaven painted on earth.
Nancy Cooke Bunnell, an award-winning pastel and acrylic painter. Her work ranges from realism to energetic abstractions. Her time is split between creating paintings and teaching others. She is an experienced artist and certified art teacher for over 18 years teaching to all ages with art trained at SCSU, UConn, and ECSU. She is presently teaching abstraction at the Glastonbury Art Guild and a skill and creative based program for homeschool children at Willington Library. She has also taught art at the Community School of Arts, the Art Center East, West Hartford Art League, and MCC. Her pastels have won first in the state at the CT Pastel Society and has won numerous high -ranking awards at Art Center East, the Munson Art Center. d throughout the state. Nancy has also shown work on Canyon Rd. in New Mexico.ShortPainting Realism to Abstraction: Ireland, landscapes, floral, cows, lambs to Octopuses (Acrylic to Pastel) -My studio and gallery are a spacious and well-lit 24x24 space filled with my paintings which spans from realism to abstraction. I have invited Julie Millus Beckman in 2025 to share her gorgeous fluid abstractions.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Nancy is hosting a group show this year:
Dive into the realm of fluid art and discover unique and sublime structures and reactions that manifest when acrylic paint flows freely. Enjoy the vibrant, dynamic compositions that visually capture both abstract and realistic interpretations of our colorful and ever-stirring natural world.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Julie is a guest at a group show this year:
My garden features a woodland walk, Mountain Laurel, half an acre pond and numerous casual garden spots.
I use natural holes and tree sections from downed trees combined with metals, crystals, deer antler, bone, shells, seed pods, various woods, LED lights and most importantly, mirrors to create my sculptures. My garden features a woodland walk, mountain laurel and half acre pond.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit John's studio this year!
Mansfield
My wife, Ellie, and I have created a backyard that we enjoy working and relaxing in. Ellie's gardening and my studio work are enhanced with landscaping ideas that we work on together.
I am an artist who works in the style of traditional realism using acrylic paint. My subject matter includes nature and the wilderness, New England landscapes and more. Commissions accepted.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit Scott's studio this year!
Landscapes as the canvas; plantings as the composition: native stone work, perennial garden, shade gardens, cairn meadow, water feature, vistas, views and outdoor galleries.
A series of exterior landscapes featuring welded metal sculpture, dry stacked stone cairns, installations of reclaimed metal objects and a variety of gardens and plantings.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit Michelle's studio this year!
Flying Dragon Farm Studio
Group Show
My garden is a tangled one with wooden and concrete sculptures sharing the space with the flora and fauna.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Mary is hosting a group show this year:
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Leanne is a guest at a group show this year:
Elizabeth Clark at Flying Dragon Farm Studio
metals, wood, stone, beads, paper, resin, silver, bronze, glass, fabric
I create jewelry, ornaments, wands, dragon eyes, fairy doors with many different materials. Natural elements are used or symbolized. I create seriously with a touch of whimsy.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Elizabeth is a guest at a group show this year:
My garden features colorful blooms–-dozens of peonies, deep red climbing roses; two ladies, a peacock and a tortoise bursting with annuals, and 25” Koi in living, swimming color.
A creative whimsical environment–– a window into my artistic vision. Featuring colorful blooms, cast leaves, sculptures, a koi pond, and award winning impressionist paintings.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit Shauna-Shane.com's studio this year!
Coventry
Maple Brook Studio
Group Show
Experience peacefulness in my Sanctuary Garden. Walk my Labyrinth with a quiet mind. Striking Japanese maple. Gardens in front of my home. Calming.
Aline Hoffman at Maple Brook Studio
Watercolors on textured papers, Gourd sculptures, Natural mixed-media
Enjoy outdoor stone & metal sculptures, front yard Labyrinth, backyard Sanctuary Garden. Inside: unique Birch paintings, mixed-media Forest Delight series & Gourd art.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Aline is hosting a group show this year:
I am an artist blacksmith with 23 years of experience, specializing in functional art such as fireplace tools, botanical themed home and garden accents and sculpture featuring plants and little creatures such as frogs, snails, birds, and butterflies
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Jason is a guest at a group show this year:
My Cottage Garden contains a mix of intensively planted green vegetables, harvested at the peak of readiness, and immediately replaced by the next crop. Strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries and blackberries come each in their season to provide our household with desserts and jams. Visitors in June will delight in the abundance of lettuces planted in red-and-green patterns; garden peas and snap peas coming into harvest; chard, broccoli, beans and other, later veggies all are laid out in pleasing blocks of greenery with the startling explosion of color from the central poppy walk. The herb garden supplies us with all the culinary flavors needed in the kitchen and surrounding the entire edible gardens are the delightful flowers of late spring: foxgloves and roses, Canterbury bells and columbines. A quiet sanctuary—my Cottage Garden is a mix of vegetables, herbs, perennial and annual flowers enticing the visitor to wander, to rest, to draw and to engage the senses. Visitors are welcome to come for an afternoon of chat, share a cup of tea or indulge in quiet enjoyment. Feel free to bring sketchbook or camera.
I am delighted to invite my visitors to enjoy my detailed and colorful paintings in the garden setting where they were conceived, an informal, lush, and romantic garden. Densely planted in a mixture of flowers, herbs, and vegetables, my gardens emphasize a perfectly imperfect aesthetic with wood chip paths, a rustic greenhouse, and self-seeding plants, blending ornamental beauty with practical utility.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit Barbara's studio this year!
Ashford
Willow Tree Pottery
Group Show
An old fashioned, rustic country garden surrounded by hay fields. Places to sit. Places to wander. Come relax and smell the flowers. See the kiln. Meet Josephine the scarecrow. Laugh. Relax.
I make garden bells, lanterns, and planters for the garden; baking dishes, serving platters, bowls and more for the kitchen. My gardens are for wandering and sitting. Come enjoy!
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Suzy is hosting a group show this year:
I am an artist working with clay. I create unique ceramic sculpture and pottery both functional and decorative.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Barbara is a guest at a group show this year:
We work as a team collaborating on handmade cutting boards and signs made from local trees. Each piece is enhanced with Gretchen's wood burned art.
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Gretchen is a guest at a group show this year:
There is a long carpet of day lilies and a red carpeted garden with vegetables, hollyhocks, dahlias, and gladioli.
Glass art, sculpture, mixed media, glass panels… “Whee!” Found object sculpture… “Wow!” Fairy houses, and more…!
The 2026 Art and Garden Tour will be held June 13 & 14th from 10am - 5pm.
Come visit Lance's studio this year!