Sébastien is a winemaker and furniture maker who lives here in Healdsburg, California.
He became fascinated with woodworking and traditional joinery through the works of George Na-Kashima and Shaker craftsmen. In the early months of the pandemic, he started experimenting with abstract carvings. He cites Constantin Brancusi, Martin Puryear, and JB Blunk as sources of inspiration.

Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Shannon Sullivan lives and works in Eureka, California. She earned a BFA in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in 2002. She earned an MFA in ceramics with a minor in sculpture from the University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts in 2005. Currently, Sullivan is a professor of Art at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka. Sullivan creates sculptures, wall pieces and installations using a core visual vocabulary rooted in the prevailing ways of nature. Her work maintains a seductive, mysterious quality as she explores the nuances present in the living world. Sullivan's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. She has worked as an artist in residence in Jingdezhen, China at the pottery workshop, and at the International Ceramics Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. Her work has been reviewed in Ceramics Monthly and was curated into the book "500 Ceramic Sculptures.”

SKLO is a collaboration between Pavel Hanousek, and husband and wife design team, Karen Gilbert and Paul Pavlak - with Hanousek bringing his intuitive knowledge of his native Czech glassblowing, and Gilbert and Pavlak bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to art and design. Working directly with the glass masters in their studios in the Czech Republic, designers Gilbert and Pavlak bring a new modern sensibility to the handmade, handblown Czech glass tradition. While remaining rooted in the unique synergy found between the discipline of design and the craft of Czech glasswork, SKLO is going beyond glass and glassblowing to create a vibrant, modern new design brand. Offering cutting-edge design, clean lines, simple forms, and an emphasis on materiality.

Baharal initially worked as a recognized wearable art objects maker and sculptor. For over 3 decades she exhibited and sold her art work nationally and abroad, received awards and grants and was widely published. For the past seven years, Baharal has worked exclusively in fine arts painting.

Of her painting she says;

“I have always liked to disturb surfaces. I like disrupting the perception of harmony and finding new meaning to the concepts and ideas of beauty. Aesthetic interpretations of vulnerability and decay combined with the bare essence of form and texture have always been at the core of my work.

A fascination with the process of nature’s corrosive elements and revealing what lies beneath the surface has spilled into my creative path of painting.

Much of my new painting work is created with many layers of paint and other mixed media. Through digging back in to the layers, disturbing, exposing previous visual thoughts, a compositional dialog emerges revealing the story of the painting.”

Talya Baharal lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.

Announcing our first art exhibit with artist Talya Baharal entitled
"Edges of Time”

Opening Reception with the artist Saturday April 13th 4-6pm at Gallery Lulo

The exhibit features a series of new large and small scale paintings inspired by surroundings and events close to Talya`s life. The works are abstract compositions in acrylic and mixed media on wood panels in large and small scale. The show will run from Saturday April 13th – June 1st 2024.

"The title speaks to many things (the time I am in on a personal level, the time we are in, the bracketing of chapters, or the sense of a continuum, the chapters in my life as an artist melding together but different…. One voice within the edges of time.."

In Baharal’s previous work as a sculptor and maker of wearable objects, she mainly drew upon the visual language of vulnerability and decay. Much of her attention to shapes of vessels, structures that contain chaos and the mapping of imaginary scapes is carried over in her paintings. Acrylic paint, ink and other mixed media are her materials of choice. Torn paintings and images of previous sculptures used as collage material activate many of her compositions. A dialog between the paint, ink markings and the collage create a rich language of layered lines that intersect expanses of paint. The changing character of lines that appear, disappear and re-appear reveal the painting’s “armature” that connects the composition. Baharal’s work is deeply rooted in excavating the personal journey of a painter’s voice unearthing its vocabulary.

Talya Baharal lives and and paints in her studio in the Hudson Valley, NY. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Raised there and in London she moved to NYC in 1979. Widely recognized, exhibited and published as a studio art jeweler and sculptor for over three decades, she is the recipient of a NYFA fellowship, and other grants and awards. Baharal was a juror on NYFA sculpture/craft panel and the curator of a book on contemporary art jewelry.. A solo exhibition of her paintings “Raw Ink - Blue Paint” was exhibited at Five Points Art Center Gallery in Torrington, CT in 2021. Shape of A Language, a solo exhibition of her paintings took place in February 2023 at First Street Gallery, Chelsea NYC. “Full Circle” - a solo painting exhibition was shown at Triangle Gallery in Rockland Maine last August. Her paintings were part of several group shows in Chelsea, Connecticut and the Hudson Valley. Baharal is represented in CA by Lulo Gallery in Healdsburg, Sonoma, and Triangle Gallery in Rockland Maine.

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Thomas Hill has been a full-time artist since 1994, he makes pieces both for exhibitions and for corporate, public, and private commissions. "My pieces are made using mild steel wire, with additions of steel or copper sheet and copper meshes. I consider myself to be both a draftsman and a metalworker. My three-dimensional pieces are based on drawn studies of birds and animals in motion. I find that the steel wire I use behaves in much the same way as a quickly drawn line, and thus I am able to create, in effect, a three-dimensional “sketch.”"

Thomas Hill is a British native. He has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1999.

BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER -SONOMA COUNTY BIRD IMPRESSIONS

Thomas Hill | Harmon Guest House + Gallery Lulo collaboration

Opening Night Sunday May 7th 4-6pm 2023
With special pouring of Cruess wine spring release Rose by owners Alissa and Anthony.
May 2023 through June 2023

We are excited to announce a collaboration with Gallery Lulo and Harmon Guest House in showing work by artist Thomas Hill.

Harmon Guest House, an award-winning and environmentally friendly retreat in the heart of Healdsburg’s charming downtown, is thrilled to announce a partnership with local Gallery Lulo to debut a special art installation by esteemed sculptor Thomas Hill as part of the hotel’s rotating art installation program.

Join us to view a series of steel wire formations located throughout the hotel, as well as a large-scale installation at Gallery Lulo. The work will be on display now through June 2023.

The installations at Harmon House include “A Herd of Curlews – Bodega Bay,” Hill’s signature steel wire style appears as a flock of majestic birds moving in perfect synchronicity that he witnessed one Christmas on the coast.
In “Black Necked Stilts – Petaluma,” the artist captures the statuesque birds made up of angled lines that parade along the bay shore he enjoys viewing from his commutes on the SMART train.
In “California Quail – Occidental,” inspiration comes from walking amongst the oaks and redwood trees and being charmed by the coveys of quail busily dashing on the forest grounds.
In “Flying Curlew Sequence – Bodega Bay,” Hill reflects on how a single flap of a bird’s wings can be viewed almost as an animation when individual birds combine to create a sense of movement.
And included as number five is “Sandpipers; on the edge of the ocean." "You see lots of these little guys by the water's edge.. running along in a blur of legs and then all taking off as one when the mood takes them. They spend their whole life at the beach, nesting in the cover of the sand dunes and moving endlessly from land to water; a kind of California dream lifestyle.”

Of the installation "Maguari Storks" at Gallery Lulo Thomas says, “The starting point for this piece was a video I made at San Francisco Zoo of a Maguari Stork. Whilst I was filming he suddenly threw his head back in a wonderfully eccentric display and so back in the studio I was able to stop frame the video and make a series of drawings based on this movement. My aim was to keep a strong sense of movement in the piece and to translate the gesture of my drawings into three dimensions."

“I find that wire can suggest a line almost like a three-dimensional ink drawing, with a little hammering to create added weight and texture like the twist dip of a pen,” notes Hill. “For me, it is the ideal material for evoking the lightness and feathery staccato movements of birds.”

For the materials used in connection with the installation at Harmon House, Thomas Says;

“I wanted to say a little about my choice of materials, and also how this relates to the Hotel architecture. The pieces in this group are all made from mild steel wire, an industrial material mostly used for tying rebar together whilst constructing concrete buildings, so I like to imagine that the walls here in Harmon are full of the same wire as my birds are made from. I love the poured concrete textures of the hotel; the impression left from the wooden shuttering creates a sense of nature in the person-made environment. Similarly, the steel window frames echo the steel of my birds... the fluid lines of my pieces weaving a counterpoint around the strict right angles of the building.”

Thomas Hill has been a full-time artist since 1994, he makes pieces both for exhibitions and for corporate, public, and private commissions. "My pieces are made using mild steel wire, with additions of steel or copper sheet and copper meshes. I consider myself to be both a draftsman and a metalworker. My three-dimensional pieces are based on drawn studies of birds and animals in motion. I find that the steel wire I use behaves in much the same way as a quickly drawn line, and thus I am able to create, in effect, a three-dimensional “sketch.”"

Press Release

Trine Ellitsgaard grew up in Denmark and it was there she trained as a weaver, but for the last twenty years she has made her home in Oaxaca, Mexico. The ordered geometric designs, the muted colors, the soothing balance of forms and textures all seem to express a Scandinavian sensibility in direct contrast to a life spent in Mexico or to traditional Mexican weaving, but the influence is undeniably there. Underneath the deceptive simplicity and harmony of the designs, there are surprising cultural clashes and combinations which reveal a delight in strangeness as well as the peculiar beauty that can emerge from chaos. Trine's work takes hold of all that she has observed in Mexico, but the Scandinavian in her reconstitutes it into new patterns; out of the meeting of these two cultures emerges a new way of seeing both.

Join us for our upcoming trunk show Saturday, August 12th 3-6pm with Jane D'Arensbourg. Meet the artist and view the full collection brought to us from Jane`s studio in New York for this unique one afternoon event.

Jane D'Arensbourg's unique take on sculptural and functional forms are expressed through her flame-worked borosilicate glass installations, jewelry, and lighting. The fragile and delicate nature of the glass is often counterbalanced by incorporating materials such as metal and porcelain in order to enhance the sensual experience of touch and sound in her work. Jane's art and jewelry is featured in galleries and museums nationwide and abroad, including MOMA's Design store and the Contemporary Museum of Art and Design in New York. Jane lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Vic Wright is a Sculptor from the North West of England, she works from her studio in Greater Manchester.
Typically Vic’s work takes the form of casts. Using a base of sustainable casting cement different materials such as metal powders and pigments are added. When drying this results in different textures, colours and surfaces.
Vic has an explorative approach to her work. She wants to capture the differences between contrasting elements, to create a visual language between materials. Her work evokes the natural world, only amplified, distorted and moulded to give new context. Vic is influenced in how nature displays beauty in difference. Her interest in using industrial materials create delicate tactile results, which is a common thread throughout her work.

“On the one hand, visual order provides a place for the senses to rest while color relationships create problems for the brain to solve. I like this simultaneity". It is always exciting to introduce an artist local to the community, whose art speaks to the natural surroundings we live in. Victoria Wagner, is an artist and adjunct professor at California College of Arts, who lives in Occidental, California. Victoria's work explores painting and sculpture in various materials. She moves between standard oil on canvas to painting on aluminum, salvaged pieces of wood in unique color palettes using oil, gouache and acrylic. “My work deals with observation and mystery. I am fascinated with unlikely material pairings. Within the familiar arc of a line, a simple form, the pleasant cadence of common geometric shape."