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Liz Russell
R Honey Pots
ceramic artist

Liz Russell creates the ceramic series R Honey Pots: “Functional ceramics: high-fired stoneware, handcrafted and hand painted original pieces. They are microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe.”

Sandra Rubin
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Sandra Rubin is an artist from Western Sonoma. She paints expressive and abstract figures, still lifes and landscapes.

Michele Rosett
artist

Michele Rosett is a Sonoma County artist of abstracts, landscapes, wildlife and musical narratives. She grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and worked as a clothing designer and business owner for 20 years, before dedicating her time to fine art.

Suzie Rose
photographer

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.”

Kat Romine

Kat Romine is a painter of Sonoma, California. “For the last 25 years Kat has channeled and honed her talents in art and settled in the glorious and inspiring Sonoma region of California where she can touch nature and be close to animals.”

Sonja Roberts
Couturier Faerie Verte
costume designer, dressmaker

As a costume designer, Sonja Roberts appreciates the fabric, line and details of antique fashion. She also repurposes vintage clothes into “dreamy art jackets.” Sonja has a Masters in Costume Design and a background in theater.

Victor Ries
metal artist, jewelry artist

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 Mary’s College in Moraga.

Nancy Ray Ricciardi
artist

The artist Nancy Ray Ricciardi paints landscapes of Sonoma County, portraits, and dragons, using acrylic and watercolors.

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Alice Rhodes is a mixed media artist who often uses found objects to build her art with. Some of her works include individual books made out of coffee filters, sewn together and painted.

James Reynolds
Birdlands
artist

James Reynolds creates oil paintings and pastels of landscapes, wildlife and portraits.

Wayne Reynolds
Valley of the Moon Pottery
artist, ceramic artist

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.

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Anne Regan is a Sonoma County mixed media artist and painter, known for painting wildlife on granite and bicycle collages.

Ralph Ramirez
woodworker

Ralph Ramirez, the craftsman and wood artist, produces “one-of-a-kind decorator and functional bowls, vases, platters, and vessels turned from beautiful Northern California woods; maple burl, redwood burl, black oak burl, walnut burl, and many others.”

Jonna Ramey
sculptor, filmmaker and performance artist

Jonna Ramey is a stone sculptor, filmmaker, writer and performance artist of Northern California and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Robin Purcell is a Sonoma County plein air artist, and watercolorist.

Susan Proehl
artist

Susan Proehl is an abstract artist. Her work is colorful and often depicts an aerial perspective. She lives and works at her studio in Western Sonoma County, Sebastopol.

ceramic artist

Beverly Prevost is a clay artist who specializes in stoneware, pottery, handmade dinnerware, and handmade vessels. She graduated from the University of Georgia with an MFA in Ceramics and has lived in the Sonoma Valley since 1970. She is also a founding member of the Arts Guild of Sonoma and the Sonoma Valley Jazz Society.

Dannell Powell
artist

Dannell Powell is the creator of the series, The Mannequin Chronicles – Mannequin Art for the Masses,  mannequin art and books, and also a fine artist and photographer, known for vintage themes and assemblages.

 

Isabelle Posillico
jewelry artist

Isabelle Posillico designs and creates individual art pieces with the ability to stand on their own, a balance of beauty and function. Using recycled golds with a precise composition of gemstones, she forms, constructs, and solders each piece into wearable art.

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Ellie Portner is an artist of graphite drawings, oil painting, monoprints, paper collages, welded steel, and other mixed media.

Katherine Plank
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Katherine Plank is an artist who paints in pastels, oils and acrylics.

Kristel Phears
jewelry artist, photographer

Kristel Phears is an artist of fine jewelry and also a photographer, who has a store on Etsy and accepts custom orders for everyday or bridal occasions. Her favorite materials are gold, sterling, fine silver, gemstones, natural stones, copper, and crystal. She also creates fine art photography of the natural world.

Elizabeth Peyton
artist

Elizabeth Peyton creates drawings, mixed media, botanicals, collages and watercolor paintings.

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Ryan Peterson is an Petaluma artist who paints murals and expressionistic works.

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Artist Roy Pearson was born in England and studied in London, before his move to Sonoma Valley. He enjoys a wide range of medium, and paints abstract, stylized and realistic subjects. You might see his work in Chevys posters and interiors, as he was their art director and artist before retirement.

Erik Paul
printmaker, etcher

Erik Paul is known for pop art painting as well as printmaking, etchings and block prints. He has a background in graphic design and sign making, and incorporates sign making techniques into his art, to develop printmaking in novel ways.

Michael Palace
woodworker

Michal Palace is a wood artist who specializes in “Furniture with a Story”. His furniture designs are often made with sustainable, recycled and eco-friendly woods.

Nicole Ours
artist

The artist Nicole Ours is a third-generation artist and teacher, known for oil painting landscapes and portraits. She was also the president of the North Coast Artists’ Guild of the Gualala Art Center, and Resident Artist in Healdsburg.

artist, art educator, sculptor

Linda Ortiz is known for her Southwestern American art themes.

Rik Olson
illustrator, engraver

Rik Olson specializes in wood engravings, scratchboard, linocut and pen and ink illustration.