This Winter, our Palate to Palette series continues to inspire unique connections between wine and art while supporting the work of local artists. Our current artist’s work in residence is by artist Linda Simmel. You may view her body of work “The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning (Chapter II)” which will be on display through the end of February 2026 at our tasting room.
On February 21, 2026 from 1:00 – 3:00pm, our Winter Palate to Palette artist Linda Simmel will present and discuss a new work in progress – an artist book that stems from the foundation of her ongoing project, “The Hiking Club”, which our tasting room is currently presenting select pieces of.
She will be joined by two other Bay Area book artists, Macy Chadwick and Nora Pauwels. Macy Chadwick publishes artists’ books and limited-edition prints under the imprint In Cahoots Press in Petaluma, California. Macy engages metaphor to reveal that which is unspoken: to make tangible the ephemeral, to make visual our human experience and interactions. Nora Pauwels’ s books utilize botanical themes to explore ideas of documentation, typology, portraits of a neighborhood, climate change and archiving the everyday and ordinary. The images embody wistful qualities that express a quiet desire that plants will mutate into hyper powerful versions of themselves and overtake our present situation.
Please join us for a discussion of artists’ books!
“The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning (Chapter II)” centers around a displacement narrative and subsequent feelings of longing that can arise from the immigrant experience. Simmel has always been interested in how events that we do not experience directly nevertheless color our normalcy. We inherit intergenerational trauma – we become “infected” by the hopes and inspirations of our predecessors. This project has been a way to deal with a history muted by unspoken stories. For the artist, the work reveals the process of unraveling the burden of history that defines her and presents an investigation into intergenerational cultural identity, loss, and renewal.