Saturday mornings 10-11am, monthly. Free. RSVP required, up to 7 people.
A free, low-key way to get to know tidewings Studio, ask questions, and hear what's coming this season. Open studio, coffee, and a little time on the deck under the oaks.
Space is limited to keep it personal. RSVP to hold a spot.
Sat. July 25 from 1-4pm
A workshop for making a small, handmade record of this exact summer, structured in two parts: painting and binding.
The afternoon opens with a short story on books made this way, small and personal, holding fragments of a single season rather than a continuous narrative, attention to what's ordinary, held with care rather than urgency.
From there, small individual pages are painted and inked, each one a fragment of the summer, a memory, a color, a place. Quality watercolor paper, ink, and brushes are provided, along with a few objects and prompts to work from if a blank page needs a starting point.
Once the pages are ready, a simple Japanese stab-binding technique is taught and demonstrated, and each person binds their own pages into a small, keepsake book to take home.
Materials included. Light refreshments provided. Held indoors and on the deck, weather depending. No experience necessary.
Sunday, July 26 from 9am-12pm
A morning of making paint from scratch, grounded in one of the oldest human practices: turning earth and plant into color.
The session opens with a short conversation on the history of natural pigment and paint-making. From there, natural pigment is mixed by hand into paint using two traditional binders: gum arabic, the base of centuries of watercolor and manuscript work, and egg tempera, used for panel painting long before oil paint existed. Participants are welcome to try one or both.
Once the paint is ready, a table of options is laid out: paint freely on quality watercolor paper, print a small fabric piece using pre-made resist blocks, or paint a set of pre-cut bookmarks to keep. No single path is required, guests are free to move between materials and techniques at their own pace.
Held at the farmhouse table on the deck, under the oaks, with refreshments inside. Materials included. No experience necessary.
Sunday, July 26 from 3-5pm
The gathering opens with tea and a small spread, time to arrive and settle in. From there, a short reading aloud of historical letters, some well known, some not, drawn from real correspondence across centuries, sets the tone before the writing begins. Quiet writing time follows, indoors or out on the deck, with good paper, pens, and wax seals provided. Guests are free to write to a stranger, to a past or future self, or to someone real they intend to send it to.
The afternoon closes with a return to the group, conversation and refreshments continuing, and an open invitation, never a requirement, to read a line aloud.
A once-a-month gathering, meant to be returned to, each session distinct.
Saturday, August 1 from 9am-12pm
A still life workshop marking the first harvest of the season, and the first of a series of seasonal still life gatherings held throughout the year at each turning point.
The afternoon opens with a short look at harvest imagery across art history, the long tradition of painting abundance and the work of a season's end, from early still life painters through to Van Gogh's wheat fields. From there, each person builds their own still life vignette from what the season has given so far, stone fruit, early grain, whatever feels true to this exact moment, and spends the rest of the session painting or drawing from it.
The afternoon closes with a small, quiet moment: naming, aloud or simply in writing, what's been gathered this year so far, in work and in life.
Materials included, light refreshments provided. Held at the farmhouse table on the deck. No experience necessary.
Sunday, August 2 from 9am-12pm
A half-day creative writing retreat, structured in three parts: arrival, a quiet walk, and a return to write again.
The morning opens with coffee and the building of a still life vignette from small, ordinary objects. Before the first writing session begins, a short reading and conversation bring the practice alongside its long lineage: the Dutch and Flemish still life tradition, the quiet attention of painters like Chardin, Clara Peeters, and Morandi, and the texts of writers like Gilbert White, Virginia Woolf, Mary Oliver, and Wendell Berry, each of whom found a whole world inside a single ordinary moment. This is a workshop rooted in that tradition, translated from paint and page into a morning spent looking closely at what's already here.
From there, a walk outdoors carries a single prompt to hold onto and consider. The morning closes with a second writing session and a read-aloud circle, where each person's still life, and the words it drew out, are witnessed by the group.
A kraft journal and coffee and tea are included throughout. No writing experience necessary, only a willingness to look closely at what's already in front of you.
Saturday, August 22 from 10-11am
A free, low-key way to get to know tidewings Studio, ask questions, and hear what's coming this season. Open studio, coffee, and a little time on the deck under the oaks.
Space is limited to keep it personal. RSVP to hold a spot.
Sunday, August 30 from 3-5pm
The gathering opens with tea and a small spread, time to arrive and settle in. From there, a short reading aloud of historical letters, some well known, some not, drawn from real correspondence across centuries, sets the tone before the writing begins. Quiet writing time follows, indoors or out on the deck, with good paper, pens, and wax seals provided. Guests are free to write to a stranger, to a past or future self, or to someone real they intend to send it to.
The afternoon closes with a return to the group, conversation and refreshments continuing, and an open invitation, never a requirement, to read a line aloud.
A once-a-month gathering, meant to be returned to, each session distinct.
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