Rednersville Road Art Tour 2026: A Labour Day Studio Crawl

Free, self-guided studio hopping along the Bay of Quinte in Prince Edward County

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Twenty artists open their homes and studios along Rednersville Road (County Road 3) on the shore of the Bay of Quinte — paintings, pottery, mosaics, fibre art, and more, all for sale directly from the makers. Start anywhere along the route and go at your own pace.

🎨 20 local artists 🏡 Home studio visits 🚗 Self-guided driving tour 🌊 Bay of Quinte views

💡 This isn’t a single-venue event — it’s a driving tour along one road. Download the tour brochure from the official website first so you can plan your route and pick which stops matter most to you.

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✨ Why This Tour Is Worth the Drive

Prince Edward County is only about two hours from Toronto, and Rednersville Road — officially County Road 3 — traces the south shore of the Bay of Quinte from Rossmore toward Carrying Place. It’s one of the prettiest drives in the County even without an art tour attached, with water views, century farmhouses, and rolling countryside the whole way.

What makes the Labour Day weekend special is that around twenty local artists throw open their own homes and studios along that stretch of road, so instead of browsing a formal gallery, you’re stepping into the actual spaces where the work gets made — painters’ sunrooms, potters’ converted barns, fibre artists’ kitchen tables. Past years have featured everything from oil and watercolour paintings to stained glass, hooked rugs, woodturning, mosaics, and hand-knit textiles, and every piece is original and for sale directly from the maker.

Because it’s self-guided, there’s no set order and no crowds funneling through a single venue — you set your own pace, stop wherever the signage catches your eye, and can turn it into as short or as long a day as you like. It pairs naturally with a broader County outing, since wineries, farm stands, and other Labour Day weekend events across Prince Edward County are all within easy reach.

Getting to talk with the artists themselves is really the heart of it. Rather than a name card next to a framed piece, you’re chatting directly with the person who made it — hearing how a mosaic came together, watching a potter demonstrate their technique, or learning what inspired a particular series of paintings. For anyone who finds gallery browsing a little sterile, this is the opposite experience entirely: unpolished, personal, and rooted in the place the art was actually made.

📅 Tour Hours

The tour runs the same hours all three days of Labour Day weekend, so you can visit once or come back for a second pass if one day isn’t enough to see everything.

🖼️ What You’ll Find

This year’s tour spans 9 stops and roughly 20 artists and artisans working across a wide range of media. Expect to find:

🖌️ Oil & acrylic paintings 💧 Watercolours & mono prints 🏺 Pottery & ceramics 🧵 Fibre art & textiles 🪟 Mosaics 🪵 Woodturning & wood crafts 💍 Jewelry 🪟 Stained glass 🗿 Sculpture

Studios apply through a jury process to join the tour, so the quality bar stays consistently high year to year — this isn’t a craft-fair grab bag, it’s a curated group of working artists showing in their own creative spaces.

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🚗 Getting There

Rednersville Road, or Prince Edward County Road 3, runs along the shore of the Bay of Quinte from Highway 62 at Rossmore toward Carrying Place. There’s no single venue and no formal parking lot — because it’s a driving tour, you join the route at Rossmore or Carrying Place and pull off at whichever studios you want to visit, watching for the tour signage at each driveway.

From Toronto: about two hours via Highway 401 and Highway 62 south into Prince Edward County.

💡 A Few Things Worth Knowing Before You Go

🗺️ Grab the brochure first. With 9 stops spread along one road, having a map in hand beats trying to navigate stop-to-stop on the fly.

💵 Bring a mix of payment methods. This is a collection of independent home studios, not a single ticketed venue — card readers and cash acceptance vary by artist.

🚙 Drive carefully along the route. Rednersville Road sees more traffic than usual during the tour, with cars pulling in and out of driveways all weekend.

📸 Pace yourself. With water views and countryside the whole way, it’s an easy tour to turn into a slow, scenic half-day rather than rushing every stop.

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