A Creative Sanctuary in Tucson, Arizona
EdenArts Center is a unique art and nature retreat in Tucson, Arizona, where creativity and tranquility come together. Designed as a peaceful escape, it offers a space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with your inner creative spirit. Surrounded by desert landscapes and artistic elements, every detail is curated to inspire, creating an experience that feels both meaningful and lasting.
A Mission Rooted in Healing and Creative Expression
Our mission is to bring together art, nature, and personal transformation. We believe creativity powerfully supports self-discovery and healing, and we foster an environment of openness and intention. By blending natural surroundings with artistic expression, we encourage clarity, balance, and a deeper sense of connection.
A Truly Unique Experience Shaped by Purpose and Place
EdenArts Center stands apart through its blend of art, nature, and intentional design. Every element reflects authenticity and care, from the desert setting to spaces created for reflection. The result is an atmosphere that feels both grounding and transformative, offering an experience that is memorable and genuinely impactful.
From Artistic Roots to Creative Evolution
Richard K. Bacon was born on the Fourth of July in 1960 and grew up in Syracuse, New York. He is the eldest son in a family of eight. His first art exhibition was at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York in 1978 during his senior year of high school at the age of 18. Richard received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 1982, majoring in Graphic Design. For 18 years, he worked in corporate marketing communications in Boston, Mass. and owned his own design firm, Bacon Design Group, Inc. from 1989-2000. In addition to providing commercial art services to a wide variety of clients, Richard continued to explore his love for making fine art and gardening in his free time.
In 1994, Richard received support from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to travel, study and create Japanese style art in a Buddhist monastery in Kyoto, Japan. The experience inspired him to establish a greeting card business of his nature photography called EdenArts. Relocating to San Diego, California, in 2000, to pursue fine arts as a full time profession, Richard became a member of The Spanish Village Art Center and won awards for his paintings at the San Diego Art Institute, San Diego Watercolor Society and the Valley Center Arts Association. To help support his fine arts career, Richard then became Head of the Computer Graphic Design Department at Coleman College in 2002.
From Healing Vision to EdenArts Center
After a wildfire storm destroyed his neighborhood 2003 in southern California, Richard purchased a garden center in Washington State in 2005 and converted it into an inspirational Nature & Art Center called EdenArts. Working with art associations, recovering addicts, battered women, the local homeless shelter and the high school teens-at-risk program, Richard developed EcoArt Therapy as an important healing modality for helping others to expand self-awareness and encourage self-healing.
In 2008, he enrolled at John F. Kennedy University’s School of Holistic Studies in the Dept. of Arts & Consciousness in Berkeley, California. and received a Master’s Degree in Transformative Arts in 2010. In addition to refining and expanding his fine arts practice, he created the vision of expanding his unique healing program called EcoArt Therapy Workshops that combines psychology, ecology and expressive arts therapy in a transpersonal group setting. Richard has helped over 300 clients in a 15 year period to transform their lives using the EcoArt Therapy healing modality. Richard currently divides his time between teaching, hosting Earth Blessing rituals, and counseling private clients with EcoArt Therapy techniques. He continues to exhibit his artwork in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2022, Richard purchased 5 acres of raw desert land in an Eco Community called West Sacred Earth Place to create his dream of The EdenArts Center in Tucson, Arizona. In a few short years, the retreat center now has a 2600 sq ft. four bedroom, three bath home containing hundreds of artworks from around the world. There are two private guesthouses for artists in residency.