Withywindle Gallery
The areas only gallery for stone sculpture, featuring local and international sculptors

www.withywindlegallery.com

(707) 869-1021 fax: 869-1666

13550 Church Street (POB 2124)

Guerneville, CA 95448

Karen Ryer: withywindle@netease.com

After nearly thirty years as a practicing lawyer in California (Alameda, San Francisco, and Sonoma Counties), Karen Ryer retired from law to pursue stone sculpture. An art history buff, she studied art as an avocation, painted, dabbled in clay, wood, found objects, metal, and finally met her first stone. It was love at first slice. She has since never met a stone she didn't like

Her passion for her stone and the lack of galleries that give adequate attention to stone sculpture these days, she had to open her own gallery. Thus, Withywindle Gallery, a wondrous place in the Russian River town of Guerneville, north of San Francisco, opened at the end of November 2004. The gallery is an environment in which Karen can effectively and beautifully display her own work as well as the wonderful work of other artists in stone who have had trouble finding a place to show.