Grates Cove Studios

Grates Cove Studios offers artists, dry stone wall enthusiasts, travelers and food lovers the opportunity to create, to eat and to explore during their time in the historic town of Grates Cove, Newfoundland, along the Baccalieu Trail. Come for the week or weekend… Enjoy home cooked Newfoundland and Cajun meals at our restaurant. Hike the Rock Wall Gardens with our picnic backpack. Relax in our three bedroom vacation homes overlooking the ocean and Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve. Come for the month…. Retreat, create, and work remotely while enjoying the whales, the icebergs and the spectacular scenic changes. “A marvellous experience. A must see experience for everyone.” -L&D Wentrell Gander, NL Grates Cove Studios is owned and operated by Artist/Designer Terrence Howell & Courtney Howell, Newfoundland and South Louisiana natives who met in, traveled around and ate their way through South Korea. In 2009, they pitched their family in Grates Cove, the birthplace of Terrence’s father, grandmother and many ancestors. Soon after, they bought the old school house in Grates Cove and in 2011 started Grates Cove Studios. Grates Cove is a national historic site and an outport Newfoundland community two hours from the capital of St. John’s along the Baccalieu Trail. Grates Cove is lined with trails, historical rock walls, the Atlantic Ocean and a view of Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve. This community and environment are ideal for artists, dry stone wall enthusiasts and those with a love of rural, coastal Newfoundland life. For Terrence and Courtney, Grates Cove has been the inspiration for many of their creative practices including mixed-media visual art, fine wood craft and designs and food. There is nothing like a walk through the rock wall gardens to transport you, not only to the past, but to a future creative place.