Wood n Arts Gallery

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02/28/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day of the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Robby Woodruff.

Robby Woodruff, of Resonate Woodworks based in Petaluma, Ca combines live edged wood with resin to displae a contrast with unique wood grains and colors of nature. His work is inspired by his travels, the outdoors, and love of the ocean.

Prior to his days as Resonate Woodworks, Robby worked on oyster farms for 8 years from Massachusetts to Morro Bay and Tomales Bay. When the pandemic started, he took his passion for woodworking and made it a career. When he’s not woodworking you can find Robby fishing on Tomales Bay or hiking the local hills with his beautiful wife, his two kids and their Australian Shepard.

02/27/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day for the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ Stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Steve Morris is a native Californian, his grandfather was the foreman of The Annapolis Mill when he was a baby. Steve visited every summer for deer season and fishing and never considered himself an artist until 2013 when a local friend saw one of his carved walking sticks and talked him into entering it in the Art in the Redwoods where he won a blue ribbon. Steve has had no formal training in carving. His old man gave him a pocket knife as a kid and said you are gonna hurt yourself, sure enough he did, many a time, but he also gained a lot of experience carving stone and wood. One day he saw a guy doing walking sticks and thought “Hey, I can do that!”
Recently he has been focusing on walking sticks as special commissions. He has artwork in Sweden, New Zealand, Tasmania and the U.S.

Steve is proud to have been part of the team who helped facilitate the Siberian Tribe called The Sakha who built the grouping of totem poles at the Gualala Point Regional Park, and the Gualala Art Center.

02/26/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day of the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Aaron Dixon.

Aaron moved here when he was 8 months old and has lived in the Gualala/Sea Ranch area for 45 years. He spent a lot of weekends and school vacations either on his dads construction sites where he observed how homes went together, or out in the redwoods and the rivers exploring. Aaron went to work swinging a hammer out of high school and has stuck with it to present. Now he has gained a love and lot of experience for building and finishing homes. Sometimes his work requires him to to remove old redwood siding and deck boards. Knowing that old growth redwood is not really available at the lumber yard, he hates seeing it go to the dump, so he has started collecting it, running through a planer and it looks brand new again.

The table/benches shown below are 1005 reclaimed wood, some but not all is old growth and each piece has over 750-1000 feet of individual notches that interlock together to a precision fit. Aaron can create custom heights/widths/lengths in addition to what is shown in the Gallery at this time.

02/25/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day of the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Jessie Blinman

DeRive: "A spontaneous and unplanned journey, where the traveler is guided by the landscape and architecture."

Beauty in all things wild. Finding canvases on which to tell my stories along my travels. My hope is to portray the connection between the raw and real, death and rebirth. I am pleased to share these memories with you. Inspiration found from the places I journey, the changing of the seasons, the history of the people and places, and the stewardship of the earth. Each piece holding a story of where I have been and of where I dream to go. You'll find me rifling through maps along infinite highways, trekking through mountains, wading through waters, meandering along coastlines, and feet kissing the bare earth. Currently, I am preparing for my next journey north to Alaska.

"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head (and heart). You'll find what you need to furnish it- memories, friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey." - Tad Williams
Look for more of Jessie's artwork and tales of her journey on Instagram .and.the.land

02/24/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day for the month of February.
Come see us in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ Stand and online at www.woodnarts.com

Today's Featured artist is Paula Rie Bonham.

Paula Rie Bonham is a native Northern Californian, and has been living part-time in Gualala for most of her life.

Paula's handmade greeting cards are constructed using mostly recycled and eco-materials and each card is an original, hand-sewn, drawn, collaged miniature art piece made with love.

Her paintings - like her greeting cards - often reflect her passion for animals and portraits. Her large scale, acrylic and mixed media painting, and her handmade greeting cards have been created, exhibited and sold throughout the USA, France, Italy, Germany, and England.

Paula's heart is always on the Mendocino Coast and its essence fills much of her work.

02/23/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day for the month of February.

Today's featured artist is Timothy David Dixon.

Timothy was born in San Francisco, California on April 6th, 1947. His mother told him before she died that he began to draw about the same time that he began to walk and talk. When he was four he was introduced to colors and an easel in kindergarten. the memory is vivid of his teacher being surprised at his first painting with tempura. A landscape, with sky that came all the way down to the ground and trees that were'nt just green lollipops. By the time he was ten, he was doing detailed illustrations for his older sister to use for her senior biology class assignments.

He started drawing portraits at eleven. At twelve his mother bought him a set of oil paints, some long handled brushes, a wooden box to carry them in, and an aluminum tripod easel so he could begin painting on location, outdoors. He began to alternate between the two mediums and soon decided that he would continue with oils and leave the acrylics behind. He also experimented with other mediums and combinations of them over the years that followed. He began to paint more often and was mentored by the local oil painters in Petaluma: Elmer Enquist, Lou Barber and E. John Robinson.

He moved to the Mendocino Coast when he was eighteen and continued to paint in oils. When he was twenty one he began designing Rock & Roll posters for Golden Star Presents based in Santa Rosa. Designing all their promotional advertising graphics for about two years. He designed Butterfly and the Grateful Dead, among others.

He did leather design, lapidary, silver and gold-smithing, woodcarving and dream catchers as diversions, but kept returning to color and painting. In 2001 Dixon was commissioned by the Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, CA, to do his largest stretched canvas (76"x112"), a vineyard/landscape for their new surgical wing.

In 2010 he went through treatment for cancer. he is very thankful for these additional years of creativity. After recovering for about a year he began to paint again, but it took several years before he was completely back to painting daily. He kept pushing his painting envelope, and within five years had moved into the most productive period of his life.
Dixon's subjects for paintings are as varied as his moods and inspiration, which is still continuing. He turned 75 years old in April of 2022, and is still painting plein air and in the studio almost every day.

02/22/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day of the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Adrian Adams.

In 1916, Walter Frick planted 20 Monterrey Cypress hedgerows on his Del Mar Ranch to provide shelter for his livestock from the fierce coastal winds. These "Signature" hedgerows of the Sea Ranch have become iconic landmarks identifying our unique community. Mr. Frick likely never imagined the hedgerows ever having having a different purpose than he envisioned. However, they became shelters from those same fierce coastal winds for our homes, while also providing protection for the nests for a wide variety of native birds. Unfortunately, the Hedgerows have outlived their natural lifespan and are now a danger to those same homes.

As Adrian watched the heavy equipment fall the old trees across the street from his home, he wanted to find a way to capture the essence of the majestic Hedgerow's legacy and other trees on the North Coast which have also been damaged by logging, insect, fire or the recent New Year storms.

He decided to cut "Cookies" and slabs from fallen trees and create enduring art honoring the lives of these trees. His hope is to preserve the beauty and significance of these magnificent trees of the California North Coast by creating art objects which are useful and hold the wonderful memories of theses glorious trees.

Adrian also creates sculptures and 3D paintings with acrylic and watercolors, of "Distant Relations" as well as local architecture and natural landscapes. His background in engineering helps focus his work, but he enjoys breaking the mold and creating eclectic abstracted pieces as much as the carefully constructed river tables and paintings. Below is featured a selection of his multifaceted work. Special Orders and Commissions available upon request.

02/21/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to Celebrate Mardi Gras and feature an artist every day for the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ Stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today's Featured artist is Barb Leon.

Forty Years ago Barb joined a watercolor painting group. Her heart was instantly captured by the process of creating art. She was drawn to the play of light and dark on the forms in nature and painted them with great enthusiasm and realism. In her thirst for more, she explored other mediums. Cycling through different mediums kept her passion for creating strong.

Currently, Barb is now back to painting in her Sea Ranch studio. She is using acrylics and working with fibers. Her inspiration comes from the immediate beauty of this land and area.

When she heard they were going to take down the hedgerow behind her house, she began walking up and down it, taking pictures, loving it. One night she had a dream. in the dream she saw how to paint some of the sense of the love she was feeling for these cypress trees. It's a new style for her, but somehow it fits the iconic hedgerows.

02/20/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day of the month of February. Come see our showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Laurie Woodward.

Laurie has lived here her whole life and has seen many chapters here in this small hamlet. Her Mother started her on her artwork when she was young and now her family, especially her brother Woody, is the main person who pushes her to make art. “Whether I am good at it or not remains to be seen.”

Laurie loves beads and she used to make jewelry a lot. She also loves beach glass because it just fascinates her that all those pieces just washed up on the beach like that. Her mother also loved it and the family included some beautiful beach glass when laying her to rest.

Laurie has painted blown eggs and rocks with permanent marker and started stacking rocks in little zen stacks calling them “beach blessings” and she adds permanent markers and acrylic to those as well.

Woody brought her some good sturdy branches of Acacia and she prepares the wood and waterproofs it then either drills holes and adds ornamentation with the beach glass and special beads or adds acrylic and permanent marker for some pop of color. She is always learning more about what woods are best for walking and hiking and yet remain light and easy to carry.

Laurie shoots from the hip quite a bit, she doesn't have a plan for a stick. She just starts looking at it and ideas start to come to her. She’s inspired by things she see in life. She’s working on a cross between a rain stick and a walking stick idea, adding sound to the experience. Her brother and sister are very artistic and push her to continue making art, and keep going even to the point of her saying “gimme a minute pllleeasse.” She loves the constant kinship and foraging for her artwork. In fact she’s probably out looking for more good wood to make a walking stick just for you.

02/19/2023

Wood-N-Arts is happy to feature an artist every day for the month of February. Come visit our local showroom in downtown Gualala, adjacent to the Surf BBQ Stand and online at www.woodnarts.com.

Today our featured artist is Laurie Kreger.

A 30 year former resident of the Mendonoma Coast, Laurie is more known for her portrayals in local musical theater and her many years in the culinary arts community. It is only recently that she has taken up the paintbrush and is excited to explore the gifts and challenges of paint!
Her art intends to convey the connectivity of life in our realm, whether that be human to animal-earth or planets within galaxies-universe. As our world becomes more complex, it is increasingly important that we learn to live together, rely on, and hold each other up as one interconnected organism.