Nature Plays a Starring Role in Local Family’s Home and Artwork

Nature Plays a Starring Role in Local Family’s Home and Artwork

Cristina Hobbs sees no reason to have a large house when there is such an expansive landscape — exquisitely styled by Mother Nature — beckoning her outside. An artist whose paintings, watercolors, and ceramics are inspired by the natural world beyond her windows, Hobbs sees the outdoors — with its gardens, tall grasses, wild animals, vineyards, and trees — as both her creative inspiration and an extension of her home. If she’s not painting or wo…