Lulu & Tully is a mercantile store that spotlights unique and local artists. The store features everything from beautifully strange handmade clocks, to distinctive handcrafted pottery, to exquisite paintings painted on wood canvases by the store’s owner, Rabun Martin.

The store not only features outstanding artists, but gives more people the initiative to start their own artistic journey by offering art classes for painting, pottery, and soap making instructed by the most passionate local artists.

Lulu and Tully’s is a high-quality consignment shop. We pride ourselves in providing our Consignors and our Customers with outstanding service and fair prices. They also house the artwork of owner, Rabun Martin.

Rabun Martin is an impressionistic painter that resides in Rabun Gap, Georgia with her husband Ashley and their 4 children. Rabun graduated from the University of Georgia with an interior design degree. She paints with Acrylic on wood.

Rabun has been expressing her artistic creativity through interior design and entrepreneurship for over two decades.   Her work has been published in regional and international publications.  Her design style is one of function and purpose, incorporating her client’s everyday life into a home that provides familiarity, comfort and beauty.  Her approach to painting is much the same.  Drawing from the landscapes of the rural mountain valley of Rabun Gap Georgia, she enjoys capturing the scenes and simple, humble memories of the area and bringing those into a home.

“My paintings are impressionistic and simplistic.  My process is messy as is evident in my studio.  Paint is everywhere.  My approach is to create layers of color and texture that give the viewer a place to let their eyes wander and explore all over the painting, discovering uniqueness in every nook.  I use acrylic paints applied with a palette knife, water bottles and my fingers.  Mistakes are embraced and lead to unforeseen beauty.  I use wooden boards my husband makes for me in our family’s furniture factory.  The wood holds up to the extreme layers of wet and dry paint much better than canvas.  It suits my messiness much better!”

“My time painting is relaxing to me, filled with music, creativity and the possibility to share that enjoyment.  Painting is a renewing escape from work, I’m thrilled and humbled when others enjoy a piece too!”

Open Monday through Saturday 10:00am to 5:00pm and some Sunday afternoons.

Contact Lulu and Tully’s at luluandtullysconsignment@gmail.com or call them at (706) 960-9446.  You can also find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/luluandtullys/.