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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
The Sonoma County artist Martha Wade specializes in figurative and narrative oil paintings.
Mary Lee Rybar is a painter, printmaker and lifelong student of the culinary arts and making things. Born in a Western Pennsylvania steel town, she attended Kent State University and the American School of Paris. She started Hunter Designs, producing custom hand painted textiles for a small stable of retailers. Her work ranges from abstract and representational paintings, to printmaking and sculpture. She maintains a printmaking studio at the Grove Street Studios in Sonoma and a home site painting studio.
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.
Marylu Downing creates mixed media artworks that have colorful, contemporary and enhanced narratives.
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.
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.
Michael Coy is a painter and illustrator, who blends realism with whimsy. His flora and landscapes are whimsically surreal.
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.
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.
Monica Schwalbenberg-Pena creates mixed media and paintings about place and everyday objects: “art about the place, drawn from the land”.
Mylette Welch is a California artist located in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, who specializes in paintings dogs.
The artist Nancy Ray Ricciardi paints landscapes of Sonoma County, portraits, and dragons, using acrylic and watercolors.
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.
Nina Bonos creates watercolors, mixed media collages of wine country landscapes and Judaica. She also offers art prints and greeting cards.
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.”
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.
Patrick McMurtry is a Sonoma Valley artist who creates oil paintings and 3-D plastic assemblages.
Paula Peterson is active in painting, drawing, collages and mosaics. She shares her travel journal and mixed media meditations on her website.
Paula Matzinger is a Northern California artist, designer and writer. Her favorite subject is a brightly hued California landscape, and she enjoys oil painting in the Sonoma County countryside.
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.
Phyllis Calvin Thomas paints Northern California and Sonoma landscapes. She often works with oil paints and a palette knife.
Popi Tyler is a Sonoma County watercolor artist.
Rae Ann Williams is Sonoma County artist. Her primary focus is watercolor, but she also is interested in collages.
Ray Jacobsen (1938-2007) was born in Englewood Colorado, and came to Sonoma County in 1947 with his family. Ray is known for his landscape paintings of Sonoma County. He contributed his time and artwork to the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, where he as an Advisory Council member. Ray was also one of the founding members of the Arts Guild of Sonoma in 1977, an active and supportive member for 30 years.
“My paintings blend realism and the surreal in a unique interpretation of our hills and valleys. My deep personal love of the natural beauty of Sonoma county and the northern California coast has inspired my work for five decades.” – Ray Jacobsen
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.
Rik Olson specializes in wood engravings, scratchboard, linocut and pen and ink illustration.
Roberta S. Alexandra lives concurrently in Sonoma County, California and London, England. She is known for mixed media paintings, emphasizing encaustic and water-based collages.
Robin Purcell is a Sonoma County plein air artist, and watercolorist.