The fantastical world of artist Teri Sloat | Gold Ridge Organic Farms just installed giant new mural by Sloat in their tasting room By Laura Hagar Rush

When Brooke Hazen, the owner of Gold Ridge Organic Farms, asked Sebastopol artist Teri Sloat to create a large mural above the bar in his tasting room, he had a pretty good idea of the kind of thing he’d be getting.  He already had several of her vibrant, fantastical, folk-art pastels in the tasting room. [...] Hazen and Sloat discussed what he wanted beforehand. “He was so clear about the colors, the way the light shines on things. You can tell that he loves the art of what he does, as well as the actual farming of what he does. He's very tuned in to the colors of the different fruits and olives. But he also gave me almost totally free license with the mural, which was a gift,” she said.