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Patrick Amiot is a Sebastopol sculptor and metal artist who uses found objects to create whimsical sculpture “junk art”. Many are on display in the downtown streets of Sebastopol. In fact his work has become one of Sebastopol’s tourist attractions. Before taking up junk art, Patrick was a ceramic artist.
Patrick McMurtry is a Sonoma Valley artist who creates oil paintings and 3-D plastic assemblages.
Patricia Akay is a native Californian artist and art teacher, who specializes in oil painting and watercolor. Akay enjoys painting the Sonoma Wine Country in its ever changing seasons, its historical buildings, landscapes, vineyards and the field workers. She attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland and for a time ran “the Gallery” in Burlingame.
Pat Meier-Johnson is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and a fine artist of Sonoma County, painting with oils on linen panels. Her paintings depict scenes from around the world, and from everyday life in the northern California wine country. “It is my own selfish pleasure to create these paintings and my joy to share them with people who are moved by them.”
Nina Bonos creates watercolors, mixed media collages of wine country landscapes and Judaica. She also offers art prints and greeting cards.
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.
Nancy Morgan creates wheel-thrown and utilitarian stoneware. Her studio and gallery Thee Dog Pottery is located in Healdsburg, California.
The artist Nancy Ray Ricciardi paints landscapes of Sonoma County, portraits, and dragons, using acrylic and watercolors.
Mylette Welch is a California artist located in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, who specializes in paintings dogs.
Monica Boettcher is known for her kiln-fired art glass, and drawings using frit and powdered glass.
Monica Schwalbenberg-Pena creates mixed media and paintings about place and everyday objects: “art about the place, drawn from the land”.
Mikio Matsumoto, a ceramic artist at Nichibei Potters, specializes in “elegant handmade pottery that blends traditional Japanese folk art designs with a distinctly contemporary flair.”
Mike Laflin was a contemporary sculptor who worked in wood and metal: “Multiple woods, metal shapes and artifacts, combined in two dimensions or raised in relief. Marquetry and inlay, gilding and patination, figures molded in bronze decorate the designs.” His conceptions included a Kaleidoscope series: “Each circular sculpture is constructed of multiple segments, each individually carved on the bandsaw out of various exotic woods.”
Michelle Carnes explores Russian Impressionism and creates bold oil paintings from life. She migrated to Sonoma County from Chicago, where she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She also has influence as an exhibit designer.
Michelle Hoting creates jewelry and small metal arts with organic designs in recycled silver and stone.
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.
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.
Michael Cone creates large format, black and white photography. A quote from the photographer: “It is up to the photographer to make sure light falls upon silver in a meaningful way.”
Michael Coy is a painter and illustrator, who blends realism with whimsy. His flora and landscapes are whimsically surreal.
Michael Ecton is a photographer of the California Wine country of Sonoma and Napa, as well as an international travel and wildlife photographer.
Michael Mudd is a photographer whose style in his own words is “a kind of photographic unconscious, a letting go in which the familiar is felt as dream-state – sometimes pastoral and serene, sometimes filled with fiery light, and other times dark and brooding.”
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.
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.”
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.
Melinda Talbot creates original jewelry designs with semiprecious stones, sterling silver and workable metals.
Maurice Lapp (1925-2014) was a devoted oil painter, watercolorist and art teacher, and was recently featured in Art Trails catalog as someone with a calling for communicating the absolute necessity of art. He held a position as an art instructor at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
Marylu Downing creates mixed media artworks that have colorful, contemporary and enhanced narratives.
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.