The 2025 Studio Tour is here to take you on a magical journey throughout the beautiful scenery of the Peak to Peak Highway while visiting our talented local artists and their impressive galleries. From woodwork to oil paintings, sculpture, and pottery, these local artists will fill your mind with wonder.
While traveling from town to town, you will see the uniqueness of each community in the Peak to Peak. As you travel between locations you will be met with views of the Continental Divide, local flora, and if you’re lucky—our spirited wildlife!
See the Peak to Peak from a local point of view and experience art expressing every season! We hope you will take this tour with adventure in your heart and creativity in your mind.
The galleries and artists listed below have been featured in The Mountain-Ear in our Studio Tour profiles throughout the months of August and September.
The event will take place September 20 and 21 and a map of all locations will be circulated mid-August. (Some spaces are only open Saturday.)
Eagle Plume's
9853 Highway 7
303-747-2906
Established 1917, Eagle Plume’s is a native owned and operated gallery that represents Indigenous artists, jewelry, art, designs and crafts. The shop houses a collection of prehistoric and historic Native American art ranging from Florida to the Aleutian Islands, but mainly focused on the Plains and Southwest.
The Old Gallery
14863 Highway 7
303-747-2906
theoldgallery.org
The Old Gallery is an art gallery and a community center. There are a variety of events, class offerings, and community services provided. It is a log structure with a charming ambience. It is also a stop over for tourists to get information, use the restrooms, and purchase snacks. Featuring around 30 artists, including Holly Daley, Dawn Foster Jeffries, Diane Kremer, Steve Goddard, Eli Eleanor Roehl, Lois Rentz, George Epp, Robin Jasper, Debra Stanger, Sally Van Der Kamp, and Cheryl Pennington, and many more!
Hilltop Guild
18720 Highway 7
hilltopguild.com
The Hilltop Guild is an engaging group of artists, crafters, weavers, quilters and many others (no artistic talents are required) that love involvement in the community and developing long-lasting friendships in the Allenspark area.
The Ward Mountain Exchange
62 Utica Street
https://wardmountainexchange.com/
The Ward Mountain Exchange is a coffee shop, specialty store and restaurant. They feature paintings, jewelry and hand crafted items offered by 5 local artists.
The Glass Tipi
55 Utica Street
303-459-0376
theglasstipigallery.com
Opened in December of 2014 the gallery provides a beautiful space to enjoy fine art and local crafts. Featuring over 60 artists, the Glass Tipi displays work from painters, sculptors, jewelers, photographers, potters, fiber artists, and others.
David Jessup - Home Studio
9347 Sugarloaf Road
(just off the Peak to Peak Highway)
Email: davidcjessup@gmail.com
David creates mixed media using cement and perlite. He hand builds planters, water bowls, and sculpture.
Julia German Fine Arts - Home Studio
582 Beaver Creek Drive
303-725-4188
https://www.burlycarving.com/
Julia is a painter and sculptor working in stone, wood, metal, and bone. She focuses on creating beauty through art. Her work is rooted in curiosity—about the natural world, about our place within it, and about the ways we can choose to move forward with hope. She is drawn to the human form and its expressions, birds, and moments of evolution and epiphany. These are symbols of possibility, of transformation, of the beauty inherent in change and growth.
Art at the Center
750 Highway 72
https://townofnederland.colorado.gov/art-at-the-center
Art at the Center hosts a biannual art show and reception at the Nederland Community Center, showcasing over 20 artists each show. Please stop by the Community Center to view the art during the Peak to Peak Tour and Nederdays of Art on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You may also view the art any other time you are in the area when the Community Center is open.
Nederland Day of Art
The town of Nederland is sponsoring its 3rd annual Nederdays of Art during the Peak to Peak Studio Tour with many businesses sponsoring artists. There will be fun art projects, a raffle, a tie dye station, chalk art at the teen center, and a hub of artists hosted around town. There will be a mural at the Carousel and over a dozen artists around town. A map will be provided for Nederdays of Art at participating galleries in Nederland.
LoLo’s Atelier
Featuring Laurence Delaunay ART
25 E 1st Street
720-514-9460
https://www.laurencedelaunayart.com/
Laurence is a painter using mixed media but mostly acrylic paint and ink on large canvases. Other artists inspire her, including famous impressionists like Monet, Gauguin, Toulouse Lautrec, but contemporary, abstract art is also intriguing. Living in beautiful Colorado is also an easy resource for new creations with amazing animals and landscapes everywhere. Many of her pieces represent landscapes, flowers, birds, or big animals. Lolo’s Atelier welcomes one new artist each month. Sometimes even more than one artist shows their work as well.
One Brown Mouse
Featuring Tour Paintings by David Sockrider
35 E 1st Street
tourpaintings.com
David Sockrider is a lifelong fine artist and designer based in Ward, Colorado. He creates imaginative and captivating, surrealistic artworks that capture the essence of live concerts and events. Recently, he has focused on working in his studio, where he immerses himself in the beauty of nature, animals, and vibrant color palettes. One Brown Mouse also features painting, jewelry, handblown glass, gems and minerals, created by local artists.
Mountain Goat Tees
Featuring Helene Arendt with CSB Metalsmith
92 E 1st Street, Unit C
csbmetalsmith.com
Helene works primarily in sterling and fine silver, often including gold, copper, and brass in her pieces. Each piece is unique—no two are ever exactly alike—but she tells prospective purchasers that the basic design style in each can be replicated. “Once a piece is sold, there is yet another waiting to be created.” Mountain Goat Tees is a local woman-owned t-shirt and gift shop.The shop was opened to have the opportunity to showcase local products and products from tiny businesses.
Brent Bishop Fine Art
158 E 1st Street
720-514-9137
brentcollinbishop.com/home
Brent uses acrylics to paint what he calls “minimalist surreal contemporary landscape paintings with a neoclassical twist.” His work is heavily rooted in traditional landscape painting with a contemporary, surreal, and neo classical twist. In order to share more of his haunting work with the public, he also offers Giclée prints in his Nederland studio.
Train Cars Coffee & Kava
Featuring Kathy Bremers
101 Peak to Peak Highway
303-815-3255
facebook.com/KLBremers
Kathy Bremers works in watercolor and acrylic. Since 2005 she has been sharing her artistic vision with the community, bringing joy, color and connection to everything she paints. Most of her work reflects the beauty of mountain living. Her artwork is displayed at the Nederland Visitors Center, the Train Cars Coffee & Kava, and in the Wild Bear Nature Center. Bremers will be set up outside of the Train Cars for the Studio Tour, with a mural for members of the community to paint. The Train Cars is a unique mountain café experience. From locally roasted coffee beans, Grade A Kava, and delicious sandwiches to community gatherings that span music, art, and performance, there is something there for everyone! Nestled in the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 8,236 ft, three iconic train cars mark the middle of the Peak to Peak Highway in Nederland. Our mountain standard is to serve world travelers, the local mountain community, and everyone in between. Find out more about the Train Cars at https://www.traincarscoffeeandkava.com/
Carousel of Happiness
Featuring Scott Harrison
20 Lakeview Drive
303-258-3457
https://carouselofhappiness.org/
As a young Marine in Vietnam, Scott Harrison had received a tiny music box that he held to his ear to distract him from the horror of the war going on around him. The music, Chopin’s “Tristesse,” brought him a peaceful image of a carousel in a mountain meadow. After rescuing the abandoned Looff carousel in Utah, he spent the next 26 years hand-carving animals to bring it back to life. Scott had never carved before, but starting with the rabbit that is now on the sign in front of the carousel in Nederland, he went on to create more than 50 one-of-a-kind animals, 35 of which can be ridden. The Carousel of Happiness first opened on May 29, 2010, in Nederland, 43 years after it was conceived.
Brightwood Music
Featuring Singing Mountain Guitars and Dunwell Guitars
20 E Lakeview Drive, Unit 109
303-258-8863
https://www.facebook.com/BrightwoodMusic
Alan Dunwell is a Colorado luthier who has been building instruments for over twenty years and building professionally since 1994. Alan runs his one-man shop out of his home near Nederland, Colorado, making instruments one at a time. Each instrument is hand built by Alan personally. Alan is a member of the Guild of American Luthiers (GAL) and The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (ASIA). Alan is now RETIRED! While he is no longer building new instruments he has a few available at Brightwood Music in Nederland.
Singing Mountain Guitars was born in Pinecliffe, Colorado, and moved to Crawford, Colorado, in 2019. George Dunham has now moved to Hawaii and continues creating beautiful instruments. George makes 2-5 guitars a year and is not following any conceivable business model. Brightwood Music hosts the last of George’s Colorado guitars.
Brightwood Music is miles from the corporate music store or impersonal internet experience, Brightwood IS mountain music! They are a music store in Nederland that caters to the local Peak to Peak region with instruments sales, service, repairs, lessons, accessories and more! Check it out soon—they are moving to their new location (across the street in The Vault building) by the end of October.
Very Nice Brewing - Nederland Tap Room
Featuring Lisa Navarre
20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112
303-258-3770
www.trackandtrailarts.com
Lisa Navarre features a variety of original watercolors and photographs inspired by Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. Very Nice Brewing is a small batch craft brewery, opening our doors on October 25, 2012, in the beautiful mountain town of Nederland, Colorado, where the motto is “life is better up here.” Their brews are a reflection of the passion, experimentation and dedication of a home brewer who followed his dream of creating amazing beer to be served in a family-friendly, pub-like atmosphere. Find out more about the Nederland taproom here: https://www.verynicebrewing.com/nederland.
Spinning Silica
20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 208
720-240-8484
spinningsilica.com/
Spinning Silica is a studio for sustainable art, created by temporary humans. With a focus on borosilicate glass and stoneware ceramics they aim to bring beauty into your everyday lives. They feature glass, ceramics, apothecary, woodworking, jewelry, wire wrapping, photography, and textile art, by over a dozen artists.
Spinning Silica outdoors
Featuring Annie Thayer
20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 208
rockyknob.net/
Annie Thayer’s work blends the spontaneous beauty of watercolor with a sense of quiet story and place. She’s inspired equally by wild landscapes and the inner landscapes of memory and imagination. Because she began painting during travels to remote places, her art often carries a feeling of movement, wonder, and stillness all at once. What sets her apart is this blend of real and imagined worlds. Some paintings are rooted in specific places she has hiked or lived, while others begin as imagings or fragments of feeling. She also brings a storyteller’s eye to her compositions—inviting the viewer to linger, listen, and wonder what might happen next. In a world of fast images, Annie creates art that asks you to slow down.
O’Neil Rocky Mountain Art, LLC
20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 210
303-717-5794
oneilrockymountainart.com
Nature inspires Kay O-Neil to be creative! And living in Nederland gives her lots of Nature to observe and draw and make into glass. She loves to teach others her art so they too can become creators. The space also has a stained glass gift shop for people to purchase items, Kay teaches classes, and does big custom glass projects. The retail shop is a working glass studio and people can see the process of how glass items are created.
Nederland Art Studios at Kaleidoscope Fine Arts Gallery
Featuring DMC Artwork
20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 210
412-523-4395
artworkbydmc.com
DMC Artwork was created in 2019 here in Nederland. It started in collaboration with Nederland Healing Arts Studio and then joined with Kaleidoscope Fine Arts Gallery and will continue on as a home studio after this October. This is a one woman show collaborating with other local creatives, for their final weekend of art. Kaleidoscope Fine Arts Gallery opened in 2021 and at the beginning of this year had decided to close after the Studio Tour.
Marie Channer - Home Studio
64 Valleyview Drive
303-258-3454
https://mariechanner.com/
Nederland artist Marie Channer paints in oils. She focuses on painting Western scenes of horses, plus ballerinas and landscapes. She emphasizes light and shadow in her work, creating contrast and drama. Channer shows her work in galleries in Colorado and elsewhere—New York, California, South Carolina—and has seen her work go to prestigious private collections throughout the United States.
Amy Hager
2841 Lump Gulch Road
919-272-7350
Amy Hager creates mixed media compositions from the environment around her, including wildflowers on her property, which are dried and preserved with beeswax in a style she calls "encaustic botanical collage." She uses reclaimed wood or live edge wood milled from her land and creates botanical plaques that capture the essence of summertime in the Rockies.
Very Nice Brewing Company - Gilpin County Tap Room
Featuring Ro’s Colored Glass, Anna Caragher, Danea Fidler and Susan Green
180 Jankowski Drive
303-582-2015
Rosanne Delaney, of Ro’s Colored Glass, has spent years developing her stained glass works using the copper foil and solder methodology. She uses a wide variety of glass types and colors to make window panels, suncatchers, garden items and more. You can also enjoy her work at www.roscoloredglass.com.
Danea Fidler is an illustrator who specializes in animals, creature design, and anatomy. Her work focuses on the natural world and uses her imagination to design and create believable fanciful creatures and surreal domains. She works in both traditional and digital mediums, providing sketches to full paintings. You can also enjoy her work at www.daneafidler.com.
Anna Caraghar creates beautiful acrylic paintings depicting mountain scenery.
Susan Green Pottery - Creating pottery pieces that are functional yet interesting, hopefully becoming a favorite to someone for its useful, unique and creative characteristics. Susan Green and her husband own the Very Nice Brewing Company.
Litwood and Artisan Friends
|221 Gregory Street
720-756-0465
litwoodcreations.com
Nestled in the historic mountain town of Black Hawk, LitWood & Artisan Friends is a place where creativity lives and stories are etched into every surface. The scent of hand-poured soaps drifts past shelves lined with pottery, leather goods, and soft handwoven textiles. Light catches in stained glass art, casting playful colors on displays of hats, paintings, and handcrafted jewelry. Litwood features over 30 artists. At the heart of it all is owner Jason Flesher, whose own creations — striking fractal-burned wood pieces — feature lightning-like patterns sealed for beauty and longevity, often enhanced with rich stains, vibrant paints, or crystal-clear epoxy. LitWood & Artisan Friends offers a warm welcome and a treasure trove of handmade beauty, all in one unforgettable stop on the Studio Tour.
Ted Garcia Fine Art Gallery
327 Gregory Street
303-885-5112
tedgarcia.com
Ted Garcia opened the gallery in November as a single‑owner space offering a diverse range of styles and subject matter. Their mission is simple: art for everyone—beautiful, accessible, and affordable. Soon, they’ll be launching Plein Air and studio painting classes, and offering basic art supplies for purchase.
Gilpin County Arts Association
117 Eureka Street
303-582-5952
gilpinarts.org
A group of donors, artists and art world lovers established the gallery as a nonprofit in 1947. The gallery features 2D, 3D, Jewelry, Photography, Fiber Art, pottery and much, much more from over 100 artists. Don't let the unassuming exterior fool you, once you walk up the wooden staircase into the old courthouse, you will be swept away into an architectural delight, stocked with handmade gifts and one-of-a kind artwork in all media types. The courthouse room is always reserved for the gallery members' artwork, while the remainder of the gallery showcases rotating exhibitions year-round.
Ghost Town Gallery
Featuring Brian O’Donnell
190 Russell Gulch Road
artistbrianodonnell.comt
The gallery features paintings by 75 year old artist Brian O'Donnell, who works in oils, pastels, watercolor, and graphite. The gallery is located in the Gilpin County “Murder House,” where a double murder of a woman and child were committed by her husband in 1904. It is adjacent to the Ghost Town Disc Golf Course—just the place for an afternoon of art and exercise!
