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Check out the latest posts in the Peachbelt Studio Blog. Explore the annual art gallery and learn more about art. The Peachbelt Studio is an artist-owned studio featuring original oil paintings by Dawn Stafford. The Original oil paintings are exhibited in a rural historic red brick one-room schoolhouse ca 1867, formerly known as the Peachbelt Schoolhouse.
Peachbelt Studio Blog
6M ago
Registration is open for “Drawing for Painters” Summer Workshop 2024 in Peachbelt Studio’s private backyard & meadow garden facilitated by oil painter Dawn Stafford. Sign up for 12 hours of study / $240 / July 8th-112th/ 10am-1pm each day. Please register (below) to confirm availability, and submit payment to confirm registration. Limit 10 students.
This Drawing Workshop is for people who work with color. Matisse once said; you can tell a great colorist by their black and white drawings. We will ponder these questions: How is drawing important to painting? Where does one leave off, and the ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
This year the 34th Blue Coast Studio Tour & The 47th Art Coast of Michigan Gallery Tour, and Indigenous Peoples Weekend 2023- are All in One! Saturday and Sunday, October 7th & 8th, 10am-6pm. Click HERE for the Blue Coast Studios Map and Click HERE for the Art Coast Map
In my little rural Peachbelt Studio, a former one-room schoolhouse, you will find me among many of my original oils on wood, paper, linen, and canvas, and many cards and reproductions.
You may wish to venture out into the backyard gardens or out to my daughter's Playhouse wher ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
Maybe 1 more spot open . . . for “The Color Wheel” @ Oxbow School of Art - Oxbow Art on the Meadow Program / July 11-14, 10am-1pm Click here to register. This workshop is suitable for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of color through the lens of an oil painter. In other words: take a trip to the rainbow. Working with pure oil pigment, students will focus on the relationship between value and color, the seven different color contrasts, and a progression of palettes (color combinations). Be prepared to engage in intense hands-on color mixing, resulting in a broad series of small, pla ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
You are invited to visit the Oxbow House in Douglas, MI to see my recent oils of poppies until Sunday, Sept 3rd. Hours are Wed-Saturday 11-5pm and Sunday 11-3pm. If you like the feel of a rich saturated palette of Cadmium Red & Orange you might enjoy these as much as I enjoyed painting them!
A portion of all sales are in support of Oxbow’s creative initiatives in our community.
My show is up in tandem with the “She Started It” exhibition -She Started It: Women Artists at Ox-Bow
June 30 – September 24, 2023 This exhibition is presented in partnership with “Herstory: Women’s History in ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
Register now for this Summer’s Oil Painting Workshop in Peachbelt Studio’s backyard, meadow garden, and hill, facilitated by oil painter Dawn Stafford. Sign up for 12 hours of study / $240. / August 2nd-5th / 10am-1pm each day.. Please submit registration (below) to confirm availability, and submit payment to confirm registration.
Join me in this unusual opportunity to share in the painterly muse of the Peachbelt Studio, formerly the Peachbelt Schoolhouse ca. 1867, a historic little red brick schoolhouse which serves as my private year-round painting studio and seasonal gallery. This intimate ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
Register now for this Summer’s Color Workshop in Peachbelt Studio’s private backyard & meadow garden facilitated by oil painter Dawn Stafford. Sign up for 12 hours of study / $240. / July 24th-27th / 10am-1pm each day. Please register (below) to confirm availability, and submit payment to confirm registration. Limit 10 students.
This workshop is for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of color through the lens of an oil painter.
We will travel deep into the Color Wheel. Working with pure oil pigment our concentration will focus on the relationship between value and color and the ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
Join my daughter Lillian and I on Mother’s Day Weekend 2021 at the Summerhouse Lavender Farm with dear friends and artists - 11am-5pm May 8th & 9th. My daughter and I made block printed lavender sachets especially for this event. Artwork created from her drawings.
Here’s the scoop - a limited edition Lavender Cider will be served!! The Summerhouse Lavender Farm partnered with Virtue Cider to create a Lavender Cider in celebration of ‘those women of Michigan’ on International Women’s Day (March 8th 2021). Quantities limited! Join us in a toast celebrating their season’s Grand Opening and Mo ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
POETRY IS ART IS POETRY
A Conversation With Artist Dawn Stafford & Poet Jack Ridl
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Meet & Greet: 6:00pm–6:30pm; Program: 6:30pm–8:30pm Saugatuck Douglas District Library
Dawn and Jack can be described as “lyrical artists.” During this conversation they will explore and reveal the ways their sensibilities and visions more often that not result in works that evoke the other’s medium: Dawn’s paintings inviting a lyrically poetic response; Jack’s poems inviting a lyrically visualized interaction. They will welcome the audience to enter the conversation at any t ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
Regrettably, due to Covid-19 our Tour has been cancelled this year. Never the less, Spring is blooming with her heart wide open, and Mother’s Day will be celebrated! This weekend some of our studios and guest artists are posting studio and garden-walk videos on our FB page artz_and_gardenz_tour , with information on how to purchase their art and spring plants!
Please join me for my Peachbelt Spring Garden Stroll on my Face Book Page HERE! (Make sure to enable audio and HD setting.)
My studio is open by appointment only, but in case you need a little magic right about now, we do have a limited ..read more
Peachbelt Studio Blog
8M ago
OF POWER AND TIME by Mary Oliver (from her book Upstream)
It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone.
Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart-a pace, to chew p ..read more