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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
Zaza Fetterly grew up in Paris, where she graduated from the Sorbonne and the American University in Paris. Zaza has practiced art and sculpting for over 20 years in San Francisco and the California wine country. Her art is on display at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery.
Willow LaLand-Yeiling specializes in realistic oil paintings, and fauve wine-themed pieces. She works in acrylics, oils, watercolor, pen and ink, etchings and graphite.
Wendy Brayton is a native from Sonoma County and a plein air oil painter who has often painted tractors and trailers, both rural and urban landscapes, as well as figures and portraits. She has a degree in sculpture from the Sonoma State University and is working on her masters degree at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.
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.
The artist Warren Bellows, trained by Quang Ho at the Denver Art Students League, paints luminous landscapes, florals, and abstracts.
Victoria Kochergin is a botanical artist and illustrator, specialized in drawing with colored pencils. She also works in charcoal, ink, painting, pastels, sculpture, watercolor and lithography.
Vicki Folkerts-Coots is known for her oil and pastel landscapes with sweeping brushstrokes. Born in Oregon, she now lives and has an art studio in Sonoma County.
Tony Speirs is known for vintage and pop-culture inspired paintings and collaborative work, acrylics, silkscreens, life drawings, illustration, and circus posters.
Tom Berto is known for crisp, colorful and photo-realistic paintings. His medium of choice is acrylic paints, and he offers Giclée prints in signed and numbered limited editions.
Tim Brody is known for his landscapes, pastels, seascapes and art prints, and has been involved in the healing arts for over 30 years. A quote from the artist: “My guiding principle is to cultivate wakefulness, clarity and spaciousness.
Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.
Thomas Creed creates California landscape paintings and murals in a traditional and realistic style.
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.
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.
Sylvia Gonzalez creates a mix of pastel drawings layered on hand-made lithograph monotypes. She also offers limited edition Giclee prints and pastel workshops. Sylvia’s inspiration often comes from nature. She grew up in the Midwest and holds a BFA from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, before settling in Sonoma County.
Suzanne Edminster, artist of Saltwork Studio, is known for her abstract paintings, mixed media, studio events, and an art blog.
Suzanne Jacquot, MFA, is a professional abstract painter and teacher in Sonoma County as well as co-owner at www.LivingYourWildCreativity.com. She shows her art locally as well as nationally as well as teaches abstract art workshops at her new large studio in Sebastopol and Online. A quote from the artist: “I find that there is a vastness of life that calls to be expressed….I am exploring my own inner visual language through gestural mark making and abstract expressionism.”
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.
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.
Susan R. Ball paints still life and landscapes in a realistic and impressionistic style. A quote from the artist: “With paint I have the tools to illuminate my subject and convey a tangible personal interpretation to connect with my audience.”
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.”
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.”
Sterling Hoffman paints seascapes, landscapes, farmscapes, tractors and vintage vehicles, often on location. He is known for his oil paintings with a saturated pallet.
Stanley George Miller, better known as Mouse and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs and the album covers of Grateful Dead and Journey music records. By 1958, Mouse had become fascinated by the Taint movement that had begun in California a decade earlier. Having developed skills using an airbrush he began painting t-shirts at custom car shows. His work is featured in the book Freehand: The Art of Stanley Mouse. (photo credit: “Grateful Dead: Skull and Roses” scan of LP cover, licensed under fair use of copyrighted material, via wikipedia.org.)
Sophie Acheson works primarily in printmaking, handmade papers and the book arts. Her miniature gold leaf paintings are created with oil paint and 23K gold leaf on dyed handmade paper.
Soo Noga creates oil paintings, abstracts and modern expressions.
Sophia Shiloh McCloud is an artist and poet, and founder of the Intentional Creativity movement. Her workshops and books are created to empower people through intuitive painting and storytelling. Her books include: Color of Woman and Heart of the Visionary.
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Sherrie Lovler offers a combination of nature art and poetry. Her poems and calligraphic paintings are featured in her books, Two As One: Poems From a New Love, and On Softer Ground: Poetry, Poems and Calligraphy. In her newest book, twenty-four paintings and poems illuminate the magnificent possibilities of creation.
Serena Hazard creates expressionistic and abstract paintings. Here subjects include the forces of nature in landscapes, and birds in flight.