“A love of stone is at the heart
of my work.”

Withywindle Gallery is created as a tribute to stone in all of its varieties, including human-made stone creations called stone sculpture. For millenia, humans have found stone irresistable. It was good for tools, for adornment, for throwing, building, and carving. Stone has fascinated throughout human history, because mother nature has given us so many kinds:

Talc, the marvelous, really soft stone which in crushed form we pat on our babies bums as talcum powder, can be carved into love shapes in solid form, or used as utensils.

Gypsum, a harder stone also known as alabaster, which we crush into drywall, turn into translucent lampshades, can be shaped into into works of art.

Calcium is is necessary for a healthy body; similarly, something about the qualities of beauifully carved and polished marble satisfies the soul.l.

The harder minerals, other carving stones such as jade, malachite, or serpentine, are richly varied, stunningly beautiful, and can be formed into shapes that we put in our homes and hearts in the form of sculpture.

Withywindle Gallery has every form of stone showcased, from fossils to petrified wood, to agates, to artists' efforts in alabaster, marble and the humble soapstone. It is a stone-first kind of place.

Currently, featured is the stone sculpture of Karen Ryer and Lenore Aster. Many other stone sculptors are due into the gallery in 2005. But, mother nature's finest agates, fossils, malachites, turquoises are also featured at Withywindle Gallery in forms which can be bought for reasonable prices, and enjoyed around the neck, on the wrist, or in the house on a mantle.

Stone is worshipped here.