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Laurie Szujewska is a printmaker who works with shapes and color. The shape may be as familiar as a letterform where the question is how do we look anew at things so familiar to us that they are almost invisible? Or the shape may be abstract, suggesting something familiar yet unnameable. The element of color is added thru a process of printing which is open and fluid, allowing for chance and surprise.
She currently teaches in the design school at University of California, Davis. She was an Art Director at Adobe Systems, and later had her own design studio specializing in typography. She currently operates Ensatina Press, a letterpress studio dedicated to printmaking.
Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.
Lyn Swan creates handmade porcelain artware, as well as festive tableware and whimsical, playful “happy pots”.
Rod Surber makes bowls, chalices, goblets, vases, boxes, kitchenware and other wooden gift items in functional and sculptural designs. His wood turnings are hand-crafted from locally salvaged timbers.
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.
Michel Stong is an artist and product designer who has illustrated book covers and interior book illustrations, wine labels, fine food labels, and business identities. You can find her art and designs on products from Clay Company, beverage flasks at Tota+Able (now Capabunga), and linen dresses for Paper & Fog.
The artist Karen Spratt is known for her paintings of fanciful compositions and weaving wool rugs.
Susandra Spicer-Philpott is a Sonoma County artist of sculptures and abstract assemblages, using metal and mixed media.
Robyn Spencer-Crompton is a mosaic artist, inspired. Her work is featured in the book, Mosaic Art and Style by Joanne Locktov. She also teaches fashion design and costume design at the Santa Rosa Junior College and Diablo Community college.
See also Peter Crompton.
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.
Joan Shepherd is a mixed-media artist, often assembling her work from found objects.
Marta Shannon is known for her fiber arts, handwoven scarves, shawls, cowls and ponchos. She has a weaving studio in Petaluma, California.
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.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was the American cartoonist that created Peanuts, the comic strip, and the cartoon characters Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their friends — a comic strip beloved by millions that spun into books and television specials, like A Charlie Brown Christmas. Peanuts ran in American newspapers from 1950 to 2000. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Schulz loved drawing and sometimes drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, such as pins and tacks. Spike was the inspiration for the cartoon dog Snoopy. Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. The weekly Sunday-page debuted on January 6, 1952. Peanuts eventually became one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time. At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages.
Schulz had been a resident of Sonoma County since 1958. The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa opened on August 17, 2002, two blocks away from his former studio, celebrating his life’s work and art of cartooning.
Books by Charles Schulz, and biographies include:
(source of this bio and photo: wikipedia.org)
Jan Schultz, Sonoma County artist, is known for vintage and re-purposed welded metal sculptures, and yard art.
The artist Erika Schmitt describes her works, “Vessels of The Soul” as “the depth of movement through the stillness of form.” Erika was born and raised in Delaware and attended art school at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
Jean Salatino, in conjunction with Steven Gandolfo, creates Salatino-Gandolfo Glass. The studio offers custom hand blown glass vessels, hand carved glass and glass sculptures.
Michael Ryan is a photographer specializing in fine art landscape images. He enjoys hiking, exploring and photographing the Rockies, Sierras, California coastlands, State Parks and National Parks. One of his portfolio statements: ”The goal of my images is to not only evoke a sense of wonder but also a sense of urgency. I want to inspire the viewer to connect or even re-connect with the natural world around them.”