Lorna Newlin has been creating pottery for over 25 years. In 2002 she followed her dream, left the corporate world and opened her own studio, Sausalito Pottery. A resident of Sausalito since 1993, she walks to her studio at the old MLK School on Coloma Street. Her “rescue” dog Shadow sits in the doorway to greet everyone. Lorna also teaches classes for adults and children.

Lorna loves to create many different styles of pottery from functional dinnerware, whimsical sculptures and pet bowls, unique fish platters, and Japanese style pottery wood fired in an anagama kiln at Pope Valley Pottery. She also does many commissions ranging from personalized wedding platters, to custom designed accent tiles.

“Nature inspires me. I use ancient art forms such as Gyotaku and create unique ways to show the beauty of nature in my “fish” plates”. This evolved into pressing other images in clay, the beauty that is all around us if you only look. Creating Art is really about truly seeing. In addition to being a nature lover, I am also an open water swimmer (no wetsuit), and diver (yes, with wetsuit). I have been lucky enough to swim under the Golden Gate Bridge and dive for abalone along the Sonoma coast. So I have viewed nature such as jellyfish, seals, and fish up close. Recreating those inspirations in my artwork allows me to share my joy with others.”

Lorna Newlin
Sausalito Pottery

All of my work is one of a kind and emerges from my original photographs, taken close to home or during my travels around the world. The mix media process I use takes the photograph printed on paper as a basis over which I use collage assembly on canvas or wood as a means to bring to the fore one aspect: The feeling I had when I took it. The special detail that made me focus on the object. The beauty beneath. And most importantly the shapes and lines within each other that created that stoppable moment for me. Once the collage is complete I paint in and over objects to either enhance the subject of my focus or subdue and manipulate other surrounding images. It takes getting really close to my work to see all the details that go into creating one piece.

Drawing is the "Lucy" of art.  It is the source of all two dimensional expression.  Drawing is the precursor of all written language. If you want to see how an artist thinks look at her drawings.

I believe in the craft and trust the ingenious expression that only drawing can convey. Fascination with the human condition as shown in the everyday movement, weight, tension, ease and torque of the body is my constant and continuing inspiration. All the art I make, drawing, painting or collage, is an exploration of how the spirit inhabits the body.  What does it mean to be human? Can I portray it with a few strokes in only a few minutes? The exploration is lifelong, endlessly fascinating, always challenging.

Jeff Klarin lives and works in Los Angeles as part of BUGHOUSE, an art and design studio creating limited edition artwork and furniture. Exploring and pushing the boundaries of conventional
fabrication and visual representation is what drives his creations.

Many of his mixed-media pieces utilize photography, painting, illustration and transfer techniques that create organic 'accidents' that unexpectedly alter and transform the creative process. Using recycled wood and found materials is a recurring methodology in his work.

Jeff has shown in both solo and group exhibitions in Japan and the US.
and has received extensive coverage in British and European publications. He is in the collections of numerous film and music industry professionals.

"The collective iconography of our modern culture can be used in visual representation to unite people to question how we interrelate and thus create commonality and compassion."

In life the physical body is the foremost manifestation of individuality. In death it becomes the property of the group. No one buries themselves.

Ritualized burial secures the body into the social strata. The group confers upon it status, power, role, and story.

Inspired by archaeology, the "Bundles" are paintings (oil and gold leaf) of burial, the point at which the body undergoes this transition.