The 2024 Boundary County Artist Studio Tour, fostering connection, inspiring creativity and building community, is a free, self-guided tour of Boundary County’s tucked away art studios featuring a dozen talented local artists representing 10 studios. Brought to you by Hannah Sucsy, Teascarlet Fine Art, and Tamara Wagner, Woodthief Art, the tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15
Tour brochures are available at Teascarlet Fine Art, 6389 Kootenai Street, Bonners Ferry, at any studio during the tour or by clicking here.
Immerse yourself in the creative process by exploring the art where it’s made, asking questions, and letting the artwork speak to you. Each of the artists has something truly unique to share with you, and we can’t wait to see what you find to add to your collection!
Here are the stops and the artists you’ll meet along the way:
- Diana Stover, Shiloh Rising Studios, 168 Eagle Crest Road, Bonners Ferry — Diana’s art is as eclectic as you can get. She works in pastels, oils, watercolor batik on rice paper, textile art, painting on fabric, traditional quilting, and whatever technique happens to strike her fancy at the moment. Visit her studio and she will show you the “Tifaifai” technique!
- Theresa Stahl, Owl’s Flight Artwork, and Zackery Richards, Inked Alibi,
2102 Roosevelt Road, Moyie Springs –Theresa’s studio is the birthplace of her fantasy paintings and the stories that often accompany them. She creates dreamscapes – her twist on the tangible – with watercolor and ink, acrylics on canvas, (or furniture, rocks, and walls), as well as “painting with yarn” in colorful freeform crochet. Zackery is a self taught multi-dimensional artist currently specializing in custom tattoos, airbrushing, and canvas art. Custom, unseen, and obscure art is his specialty. Purchase the ink and receive the alibi on the house. - A. Lee Harris, A. Lee Harris Sculpture & Art, 1407 Oxford Road, Bonners Ferry — Art is Lee’s driving force. Accomplishments include her “Flames of Knowledge” sculpture at Boundary County Library and her Bonners Ferry International Snow- Sculpting team (20 years), who represented the USA in Winnipeg (2015), having given her great adventure and joy.
- William H. Cox, Rusty Iron Ranch, 17 Shire Lane, Bonners Ferry — William, a native Idahoan, has spent a majority of his life working in the woods in fisheries and wildlife, fighting fire, ranching, and construction. His pen & ink and watercolor illustrations reflect the backcountry rural lifestyle. He also dabbles a bit in photography and woodworking.
- Hannah Sucsy, Teascarlet Fine Art, and Heather Todd, Old Stateline Gardens, 6389 Kootenai Street, Bonners Ferry – – Teascarlet is a self-taught acrylic painter wildly pursuing her passion in a way that ignites and empowers others to pursue theirs. She creates with a glorious chaos that invites collectors and fellow creatives to connect with art in a transformative way. Heather creates in a variety of mediums, most often wood and fabric. She grew up tinkering in her dad’s woodshop, using his wood scraps to make things. Her art is garden and nature inspired, with a sustainability focus, endeavoring to make art supplies from scratch, like growing indigo and other plants to make natural pigments and dyes for her artwork.
- Tamara Wagner, Wood Thief Art, 7054 Helena Street, Bonners Ferry —
Tamara uses reclaimed wood and a scroll saw to make 3D wood art. Her business name derives from when she started her adventure with “borrowed” wood from her husband. - Darrelyn Rose, R & D Creations, 391 Blue Sky Road, Bonners Ferry –Darrelyn has been drawing and painting since the early ’60s. She works primarily in acrylics, but also creates with watercolor pencils. Her subjects range from portraits, florals, and still life, to landscapes.
- Denys Knight, Accidental Hammer, 385 Moose Ridge Lane, Bonners Ferry — Denys is an artist who works with Copper, colors are achieved by flame painting with a torch, and wall art is achieved by design, cutting, pounding, firing, and patinas. Having been a lettering and watercolor artist teaching internationally for 40 years, Denys switched from paper, brush, and pigments to the malleable metal of copper for her canvas, cutting shears and a paper hammer rather than a brush for creation of wall art , and a torch for painting colors with fire. Her work can be seen at Artworks Gallery in Sandpoint.
Jenni Barry, Jenni Barry Art, 1812 White Mountain Road, Naples — Jenni uses a technique derived from a Japanese art called Kimekomi, a technique where pieces of fabric are tucked into foam-core, giving the appearance of being sewn. Her work combines the painterly quality of Impressionism with the warmth of complex quilting. Jenni’s mission is to bring the art of kimekomi into modern art consciousness. - Curtis Baruth, District 16, 490184 US-95, Sandpoint (Elmira) — Bonners Ferry art teacher Mr. Allurd saved Curtis from high-school jock bullies and helped him to discover joy in creative process. District 16 Artist Collective is a safe space for ideas and creative pursuit. They began as an idea that found a home in the District 16 schoolhouse in Elmira– putting art out there for everyone who is art curious.