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Zaza Fetterly grew up in Paris, where she graduated from the Sorbonne and the American University in Paris. Zaza has practiced art and sculpting for over 20 years in San Francisco and the California wine country. Her art is on display at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery.
Yvonne Giambrone-Martin has been designing and creating jewelry in Northern California for over forty years. Known for their mechanical elements, Yvonne’s creations are ”miniature kinetic sculptures.”
Willow LaLand-Yeiling specializes in realistic oil paintings, and fauve wine-themed pieces. She works in acrylics, oils, watercolor, pen and ink, etchings and graphite.
Wendy Brayton is a native from Sonoma County and a plein air oil painter who has often painted tractors and trailers, both rural and urban landscapes, as well as figures and portraits. She has a degree in sculpture from the Sonoma State University and is working on her masters degree at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.
Wayne Reynolds creates ceramic art, pottery, Sonoma area landscape paintings, and abstract paintings. He has been a full time artist ever since his training at the Pond Farm Colony under the master potter Marquerite Wildenhain.
Warren Arnold is known for his abstract and figurative sculpture. He is the artist of the Whale Project, a series of large sculpted marble whale totems, shown in public places up and down the California coast.
The artist Warren Bellows, trained by Quang Ho at the Denver Art Students League, paints luminous landscapes, florals, and abstracts.
Vincent Malcolm is known for his original, handcarved sculptures on reclaimed California wood. He was born Jamaica and has been carving and whittling all of his life..
Victoria Kochergin is a botanical artist and illustrator, specialized in drawing with colored pencils. She also works in charcoal, ink, painting, pastels, sculpture, watercolor and lithography.
Victor Ries (1907-2013), the metal artist and jewelry designer, emigrated from Berlin, Germany to Northern California during World War II. He was one of the metal artists and teachers of the Pond Farm Artist Colony in Sonoma County. He is recognized in the Jewish-American Hall of Fame. He taught at the College of Marin, the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and Saint Marys College in Moraga.
Vicki Folkerts-Coots is known for her oil and pastel landscapes with sweeping brushstrokes. Born in Oregon, she now lives and has an art studio in Sonoma County.
The artist Valerie Adams creates one-of-a-kind fused glass artwork and lighting, functional and decorative serving pieces, garden art and glass jewelry. A quote from the artist: “I’m continually thrilled by the almost magical aspect of transforming glass from individual sharp bits into luscious design elements that beg to be touched.”
Trude Guermonprez (1910-1976) born Gertrud Jalowetz, was a textile artist born in Danzig, Poland,¬ emigrated to California and became one of the textile artists of the Pond Farm Artist Colony of Sonoma County. She also served as chair of the craft department at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and worked at Oakland College.
Tony Speirs is known for vintage and pop-culture inspired paintings and collaborative work, acrylics, silkscreens, life drawings, illustration, and circus posters.
Tom Berto is known for crisp, colorful and photo-realistic paintings. His medium of choice is acrylic paints, and he offers Giclée prints in signed and numbered limited editions.
Tim Brody is known for his landscapes, pastels, seascapes and art prints, and has been involved in the healing arts for over 30 years. A quote from the artist: “My guiding principle is to cultivate wakefulness, clarity and spaciousness.
Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.
Thomas Creed creates California landscape paintings and murals in a traditional and realistic style.
Theodora Elston is a textile artist who creates fiber arts and jewelry. She is known best for floral depictions in fiber. Theodora has been featured in Ornament magazine and the Fiberarts magazine, and her work is in the Smithsonian Museum.
Thena Trygstad creates unique sculptures and assemblages out of salvage and found objects. She began with gourds using a mini jigsaw, a wood burning tool, glue, paper clay, dyes and acrylic paints. She discovered that salvage yards and second hand stores provide a wonderful treasure trove of materials. Her work is on display at the Arts Guild of Sonoma gallery.
The artist Terry Sauvé from Western Sonoma is an oil painter of “luminous archetypal California landscapes”. She studied at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
Teri Sloat is a painter of folk art and landscapes, depicting the landscapes and creatures of the Alaskan tundra, the Pacific Northwest, and the ranches and hills of Northern California.
Teresa Camozzi creates mixed media and resin sculptures, that are intriguing, colorful, and evocative of the cycles of nature.
Jewelry designer Tammi Young creates gold, silver and gemstone earrings, necklaces, and bracelets.
Takayuki Zoshi creates wood sculpture, wood carving and spiritual images. His art career extends over 30 years, is rooted in the Buddhism tradition, and transcends it.
T Barny creates elegant abstract sculpture in stone and bronze. His studio,
gallery and sculpture gardens are located in beautiful Alexander Valley, CA. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, T Barny takes his exploration of shape and form to a new level of science and design. By using ancient carving techniques alongside modern power tools, he creates visually stunning Mobius, curvilinear and super-ellipsoid designs in bronze, wood, water, steel and stone
Sylvia Gonzalez creates a mix of pastel drawings layered on hand-made lithograph monotypes. She also offers limited edition Giclee prints and pastel workshops. Sylvia’s inspiration often comes from nature. She grew up in the Midwest and holds a BFA from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, before settling in Sonoma County.
Suzie Rose is a photographer who often turns her lens on subjects close to her home in West Sonoma County. Through her photography, Suzie invites us to slow down, pay attention, and embrace the beauty around us.
Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer of Sonoma Many of her baby animal photos are available at Etsy. Her photography has been featured in TIME Magazine, GoodMorningAmerica.com, TodayShow.com, Ranger Rick Magazine, National Geographic Kids Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Suzi Eszterhas is the photographer of the new book, A Future for Cheetahs. To bring this book to market, the writer Dr. Laurie Marker and wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas have teamed up to bring you the most intimate portrait yet of the world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah. It is the story of the cheetah’s race against extinction, illustrated with some of the rarest and most beautiful images yet of the wild cheetah.
See also the animal photography books by Suzi Eszterhas.