Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.
Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.
Louise Rainbow has been teaching art for 25 years, working in ceramics, drawing, painting, and printmaking. She trained in contemporary arts at Bretton Hall, Leeds University and has experience teaching at all levels.
Louise is a contemporary artist working in ceramics and painting. Louise was selected for the Hunting Prize in 2020 at the Royal College of Art and has been exhibiting and selling her work ever since her one-person show at Gallery Dartington in 2022 and Tremenheere Gallery, St Ives in 2023.
Louise also teaches short courses at the West Dean London Bloomsbury campus.
Lou Rainbow encourages students to go deeper into their own practice by exploring their energy, showing alternative approaches, and stretching the parameters of their own mark-making, form, and composition using still life and nature as inspiration.
When I really get into the act of making art: the physical act of pulling ink through a silk screen, pouring slip-over clay, drawing with a newly sharpened pencil on a gnarly surface or hiding and revealing layers of wax and paint, the feeling I have is truly visceral, like a collection of things, tangible and intangible, that feed your soul. — Lou Rainbow
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
US: 1-831-667-3000
info@esalen.org
