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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.
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.
Irene Guidici Ehret is a watercolor artist who was born and grew up in the small town of Angels Camp, California. She teaches classes in intermediate and advanced watercolor, and nature journaling. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She has had one-woman shows in Maryland, Italy, Rhode Island, Virginia, and California.
Susie Edson of Bungalow Bunny, an Etsy store, is a textile artist who designs and creates hand-made original designs, passionate pillows, linens and textiles.”I’ve been collecting Antique and Vintage textiles for decades. My materials are the finest quality, rare and gorgeous. With them I create lovely handmade pillows and linens, and sometimes clothing and other useful items.”
Suzanne Edminster, artist of Saltwork Studio, is known for her abstract paintings, mixed media, studio events, and an art blog.
Michael Ecton is a photographer of the California Wine country of Sonoma and Napa, as well as an international travel and wildlife photographer.
Dee Dushke is an artist who creates oil paintings, prints, portraiture and mixed media. She has a B.F.A. in Painting from Sonoma State University, California.
The Sonoma Valley photographer Charlotte Dressen offers an assortment of photography of the wine county, Bay Area, Pacific Ocean, nature and food.
Marylu Downing creates mixed media artworks that have colorful, contemporary and enhanced narratives.
Linda Donohue is a fine artist who grew up at Muir Beach and in the Napa Valley, now residing in Sonoma County. Her acrylics, figurative paintings and encaustic works are often inspired by the Northern California terrain and horses. She is also the president of the Petaluma Arts Association, and the founder of COCA the Coalition of California Artists, a group marketing to the home furnishings industry Linda studied fine art at CCSF and graphic design at Platt College in San Francisco. She worked many years as a designer in the furniture business, as featured on HGTV and Extreme Makeover.
Suki Diamond offers a home living collection of pottery, home accessories and garden sculpture, handcrafted by the artist in Sonoma County. She has a ceramic studio and sculpture garden in Sebastopol, California. Working in traditional majolica technique, she employs color stains on a white background, and paints each piece in clear colors with stylized animals, people or designs. “All reflect her joyful observations of the world at large.”
The Sonoma county native, Donna DeLaBriandais is a plein air Impressionist painter who specializes in California landscape paintings. Donna also enjoys teaching, and offers workshops in watercolors, oil painting and drawing. Donna attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a summer at LaRomita School of Art in Italy. She received a B.A. degree from the University of San Francisco.
Rene Dayan-Whitehead is a Sonoma County sculptor who works with stone. Her work can be described as abstract, organic, and luminous. She was born and resided in San Francisco and before settling in Sonoma County.
George Dawnay paints figures, portraits and murals. He began decorative mural painting in Italy working with Alexander Hamilton in the mid-1990′s. George’s murals now grace buildings in Larkspur, Tiburon, Monterey, and Sonoma.
Barbara Crow is an artist of abstracts, gestural paintings and mixed media collages. She has a B.A. in Art History from George Washington University, and has studied at the SOMA School of Art, San Francisco.
The Sonoma artist Peter Crompton specializes in classically rooted, concrete sculpture. He also works as a stage set designer in the San Francisco Bay Area, for the ballet, opera, musicals, contemporary and period dramas.
See also Robyn-Spencer-Crompton.
Jan Steiner is a fine artist who works with oil paints, acrylics, colored pencils and watercolor. Her subject matter includes children, botanicals and animals.
Thomas Creed creates California landscape paintings and murals in a traditional and realistic style.
Michael Coy is a painter and illustrator, who blends realism with whimsy. His flora and landscapes are whimsically surreal.
The ceramic artist Cheryl Costantini of Nichibei Potters specializes in “elegant handmade pottery that blends traditional Japanese folk art designs with a distinctly contemporary flair.”
Bob Cornelis is a photographer who founded and runs Color Folio, a fine art digital printing studio. He has recently been focusing on image transfers, and alternative printing processes (palladium, cyanotype, etc.) from 21st century digital negatives.
Susan Cornelis is known for her watermedia paintings, and is interested in collage, story, and meditation. She also offers mixed media painting workshops from her Sebastopol art studio.
Marsha Connell is “a Northern California artist known for her colorful and expressive landscape paintings, oils, watercolors and pastels, and her evocative Dream Vessels collages.” She is also an Adjunct Professor in the art department of Santa Rosa Junior College, and Associate Professor in Sonoma State University’s Depth Psychology Masters Program.
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.”
Louisa Comora designs bags, purses, and wallets. Her brand name is BOHLUX, which stands for Bohemian Luxury. BOHLUX provides handcrafted, one beautiful piece at a time, couture handbags and leather accessories.
Charles B. Cobb makes furniture and artwork out of steel and wood, including floor and table lamps, cabinets, chairs, desks, hall entry pieces, handrails, and tables.
Shannon Clark is a Sonoma photographer and her subject matters include Sonoma rural scenery, San Francisco and cities, beaches, animals, skies, and dreamy and surreal carnival subjects. She offers prints, canvas matted photos, wall hangings and related home decor at her Etsy store: wall hangings, pillows, duvet covers, bedding and tapestries.
Richard Ciccarelli is known for his oil paintings and pastels. He also specializes in the design and restoration of historic buildings including the Plaza Hotel, The New York Public Library, The Frick and Alwyn Court, all of NYC.