UPPER LAKE >> Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) is hosting a wine tasting event featuring newly released wines from Sol Rouge and artist reception with Jacqueline Farley tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. and December 3, 4-7 p.m.
Farley has lived in Lake County since 1993. She was born and educated in the UK where she worked as a dance and theatre arts teacher in schools, colleges and universities in the greater London area. Following a short career in the theatre, her interest developed in the therapeutic application of the arts and how the arts can benefit society. She earned a BA majoring in dance and went on to study Dramatherapy, Psychology and Education at a post graduate level, and then began working in hospital settings and with at-risk youth. Her training in art during these years was at London’s City Literary Institute and St. Albans College of Art.
Farley came to the U.S. as an intern in a therapeutic community run according to the philosophy of the late psychiatrist, RD Laing, with the aim of becoming a psychologist. She worked with residents using the therapeutic application of art, dance and drama as well as meditative techniques. Since moving to Lake County, she has been active in the arts community both as a teacher at Mendocino College and as a performer, and lives with her husband in Lakeport.
Her first job in Lake County was as a member of the after hours crisis team for Mental Health. It was following this experience that she decided against the life of a psychologist and began to focus more on arts and teaching.
Farley has been a part-time teacher of English as well as Visual and Performing Arts at Instilling Goodness and developing Virtue Schools in Ukiah since 2001, and earned her MA in Buddhist Education at the Dharma Realm Buddhist University in 2009. Her interest in drawing and painting is lifelong, and she continues to attend art classes at Mendocino College. It is her hope that this, her first one-woman show, will generate some funds to assist those who have lost their homes in the devastating Lake County fires.
She will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from sales of her works of art to the Lake County Rising Fire Relief Fund, a collaborative fundraising effort organized by the Lake County Winegrape Commission, Lake County Winery Association, and Lake County Wine Alliance.
The cost is $15 ($12 for Studio club members) wine sampler and appetizers by Fresh and Bangin’ Eatery.
Lake County Wine Studio is a gallery for display and sale of art and a tasting room, wine bar and retail shop for the fine wines of Lake County. Artists’ shows are held on a monthly basis with art and wine receptions held the first Friday and subsequent Saturday of each month.
The gallery is located at 9505 Main Street in Upper Lake. The hours of business September through May are Thursday-Monday from 1 to 7 p.m., and Friday from 1 to 8 p.m.
The Farley art exhibit will be on display for the months of December and January. LCWS will be closed January 1-14 of 2017 for annual maintenance.
For more information call Lake County Wine Studio at (707) 275-8030 or (707) 293-8752.
