It wasn’t long after she noticed the effect her dreamy paintings had on viewers that Emmeline Craig knew she wanted a gallery of her own.
They entered her Bolinas studio “in a buzz,” Ms. Craig recalled of her visitors, “and their shoulders would drop and their body language would change.”
“I adored that,” she said.
Now, the French-born artist, who opened the Blissful Gallery less than a month ago in Stinson Beach, is seeking to…