For Local Artist and Farm Owner, It’s Time ‘To Be a Little Spiky’

For Local Artist and Farm Owner, It’s Time ‘To Be a Little Spiky’

The woman signing books at Barndiva in Healdsburg seemed genteel and refined as she smiled and chatted with a long line of friends and admirers. Susan Preston had, for the time being, set her spikes aside. That is, she’d chosen to conceal certain of her wild and sharp-edged aspects — the “spikiness,” as she recently described it to her daughter Francesca — that emerge in her art. Since the mid-1970s, Susan and her husband, Lou Preston, have run …