STAY. CREATE. FOCUS.
A creative getaway in Nelson where you can stay privately, shape your own creative experience, or devote time to a ceramic project of your own.
Choose The Stay That Fits You.
Stay in Nelson
A private, welcoming home base for exploring Nelson.
Enjoy nature adventures, lake days, celebrations, or a quiet getaway.
Shape your Stay Experiences
Creative getaways combining private accommodation with personal studio instruction.
All skill levels are welcome.
Focused Ceramic Residency
You Can Have It All.
Inspiring views, mountain culture, some of the best restaurants in the Kootenays, and the energy of a small arts town with a big-city attitude.
Stay privately in the art-filled Gallery Suite, add a guided creative experience, or devote a longer working stay to a ceramic project of your own.
Art Escape Retreat brings accommodation, clay and the creative life of Nelson together, with every guest following their own path.
Private, Art-Filled Accommodation for the Nelson Experience You Came to Have
The Gallery Suite offers a quiet and welcoming place to settle into Nelson, whether you are arriving for an anniversary, wedding, family gathering, golf tournament, ski holiday, mountain-biking trip or a restorative break.
You do not need to book a pottery or creative package to stay here.
Where Creativity Becomes Your Getaway
Shape Your Stay Experiences combine private accommodation in the Gallery Suite with personal creative instruction at eARTh Community Clay Studios.
These are intimate, boutique experiences for one or two guests, with time for making, resting and exploring Nelson at your own pace.
Focused Ceramic Residency & Studio Retreat
Private accommodation, shared studio community and time for your own work.
Some ceramic projects require more than a weekly class or a few borrowed hours in the studio. They need continuity: time to test an idea, live with the questions it raises, make adjustments and return to the work without losing its thread.
The Focused Ceramic Residency & Studio Retreat invites intermediate and experienced ceramic artists to Nelson for a self-funded, self-directed working stay centred on a defined project or body of work.
HOW YOUR STAY UNFOLDS
No rigid itinerary. Just a thoughtful rhythm that gives you room to arrive, create, and reconnect.
ARRIVE
Settle into the Gallery Suite and make yourself at home in Nelson.
CREATE
Shape your time around making, exploring or focused ceramic work.
EXPLORE
Experience Nelson and the Kootenays at your own pace.
A Place to Stay. A Place to Make.
Some trips end. The right retreat stays with you.
Whether you come to begin a project, recover your creative energy, celebrate something meaningful, or simply spend a few quiet days somewhere beautiful, the experience can be shaped around what you need.
Guests can return for a different season, a longer stay, a new workshop, or another chapter of the same creative journey.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A few helpful answers before you begin planning. Final package details will be updated after approval.
Do I need pottery or art experience?
What is included in a Create & Stay package?
Can I come alone?
How do I choose the right length of stay?
What can I do in Nelson outside the studio?
How do I check availability or ask a question?
YOUR CREATIVE GETAWAY CAN START HERE
Tell us what you are hoping for—quiet time, guided making, a longer retreat, or a first creative escape. We’ll help you take the next step.