Cristina Hobbs sees no reason to have a large house when there is such an expansive landscape — exquisitely styled by Mother Nature — beckoning her outside.
An artist whose paintings, watercolors, and ceramics are inspired by the natural world beyond her windows, Hobbs sees the outdoors — with its gardens, tall grasses, wild animals, vineyards, and trees — as both her creative inspiration and an extension of her home.
If she’s not painting or working at her potter’s wheel in her vineyard studio, you’re most likely to find her playing and engaging in creative projects outdoors with her two young daughters, cultivating flowers for cutting, and gathering herbs and other natural gifts for the table.
Her ceramics, with their uneven edges and intriguing textures, have an earthy quality; she paints large canvases in a style she describes as being “at the edge between abstraction and figuration” that evoke the colors, patterns, skies, and shifting weather of Sonoma County and Northern California…