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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
Gen Zorich is a Sonoma County painter and printmaker and produces Sonoma area landscapes and abstracts.
Abigail Zimmerman is known for painting sensory impressions of California landscapes. She also keeps a blog about the food, wine and art of Sonoma, known as Abi’s Farmhouse Kitchen.
Rae Ann Williams is Sonoma County artist. Her primary focus is watercolor, but she also is interested in collages.
Henry White is an artist and musician that uses oil paints to create sweeping Sonoma landscapes, still lifes and portraits. His work is on display at the Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg, Towers Gallery in Cloverdale, and Riverfront Art Gallery in Petaluma.
Mylette Welch is a California artist located in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, who specializes in paintings dogs.
Lorraine Weglarz is an installation artist and painter and works in gouache, watercolor and oils.
Carole Rae Watanabe paints in an energetic and impressionist style. Her paintings are often featured on the wine labels of Artiste Winery in the Santa Inez Valley California, and Atascadero Creek Winery in Sonoma County. She has also written the book, The Ecstatic Marriage of Life and Art.
The Sonoma County artist Martha Wade specializes in figurative and narrative oil paintings.
Mary is a painter of eco-abstracts and nature metaphors. She taught in Princeton, New Jersey for 13 years before moving to Sonoma County, California. She earned an M.F.A. from the Maine College of Art in Portland, and an M.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
The artwork of Don Van Amerongen is influenced by art history, music and travel. Art history gives him perspective and music often matches his personal energy while he works. Living and traveling in several cultures, Don has developed compassion and empathy for other peoples, cultures and experiences, and the gift of seeing another perspective”
Don has a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and also studied painting and printmaking at Sonoma State University. He also holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Kendall School of Design, Michigan.
Popi Tyler is a Sonoma County watercolor artist.
Kathleen Truax oil paints the landscapes of the Sonoma region, and also still lifes and abstractions.
Phyllis Calvin Thomas paints Northern California and Sonoma landscapes. She often works with oil paints and a palette knife.
Joanne Tepper is known for her oil paintings of still life and birds. Her art was featured on the cover of the 2014 ArtTrails Catalog. She has a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.
Maria-Esther Sund is known for her mixed media art, creative paintings and collages. Before settling in Northern California, she was born and raised in El Salvador, and studied art at Simmons College in Boston, MA and La Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla, Mexico.
Mardi Storm is a west Sonoma artist who enjoys painting, nature photography, mixed media, and creating large scale sculpture that merges life with art. She also offers “soul painting” workshops for artists.
The artist Karen Spratt is known for her paintings of fanciful compositions and weaving wool rugs.
Tony Speirs is known for vintage and pop-culture inspired paintings and collaborative work, acrylics, silkscreens, life drawings, illustration, and circus posters.
Susan Sohl (1945-2020) was known for her watercolors and collages made of Gesso, watercolors, torn papers, and acrylic inks. “I focus on individual expression and the development of a personal visual language.” In her Artist Statement, she wrote: “I am a curious person… My paintings reflect this intellectual and artistic curiosity…. The way I work with collage, for example, developed after months of experiments with gesso, watercolors, torn papers, and acrylic inks. No-one taught me how to create figures from paper and paste, but I struggled until I had the desired result. The Muse Series was the result.” About teaching art, she wrote: ” I focus on individual expression and the development of a personal visual language.”
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.
Marcy Silveira paints the landscapes of Northern California, in plein air with oils and water soluble oils.
Justina Selinger describes herself as “a painter of the light and its enhancements.” She paints landscapes and still lifes in an impressionistic style.
Peggy Sebera is a painter of landscapes and seascapes. Her artist statement begins, “At the Heart of my Paintings is the Earth, the Land.” She works in oil and acrylic paints.
Monica Schwalbenberg-Pena creates mixed media and paintings about place and everyday objects: “art about the place, drawn from the land”.
The artist Micah Schwaberow is known for his color woodblock prints, painting and gourd-making. The artist combines traditional Japanese and western techniques into his work. In fact, Micah has demonstrated the traditional art of moku-hanga, woodblock printing for the de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, San Francisco: “Much of his paper work, mainly the woodblock prints, appeared in some precious editions of typographic books, including Tuolumne, Book I, which received the highest award during festivities at Yosemite National Park.
Cedora Scheiblich (1920-2011) loved to paint in oil, pastel, watercolor, and gouache. A long-time resident of Sonoma Valley, she painted the landscapes of region, and scenes of the Northwest. She was also an art instructor and a founding member of the Valley of the Moon Art Association.