Ron Sumner was one of the members of the Local Color Gallery, a coop of local Sonoma County artists who were located in the our Gallery's present location about ten years ago.

Ron has worked as a professional illustrator, printer, painter and teacher. His paintings have won numerous awards. He studied under famed San Francisco Bay Area watercolorist, George Post, and his works have been exhibited in the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. His paintings are of local coastal scenes, harbors, boats, lighthouses, sea life, birds, and coastal farms and farm animals. This is a whimsical painting from a show at Local Color Gallery around 2007. We purchased this painting directly from Ron. It was professionally framed by Gary Smith of Small World Framing, also a Local Color Gallery member. It recalls the Bodega School House used in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds.