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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
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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Sandra Rubin is an artist from Western Sonoma. She paints expressive and abstract figures, still lifes and landscapes.
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.
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.
Jan Steiner is a fine artist who works with oil paints, acrylics, colored pencils and watercolor. Her subject matter includes children, botanicals and animals.
Marcy Silveira paints the landscapes of Northern California, in plein air with oils and water soluble oils.
Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.
The Sonoma County artist Martha Wade specializes in figurative and narrative oil paintings.
Mylette Welch is a California artist located in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, who specializes in paintings dogs.
Justina Selinger describes herself as “a painter of the light and its enhancements.” She paints landscapes and still lifes in an impressionistic style.
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.
The artist Kristin Meuser paints landscapes, most often outdoors and on location throughout California and the Southwest. She also teaches classes on nature journaling with watercolors.
Erik Chipchase is known for artworks in letterpress, hot metal type, silkscreen and digital media. His subject matters often reflect his love for fin de siecle posters, early 20th century advertising, military subject matters, and historical detail.
Sonoma artist Caitlin McCarthy creates original drawings of mythic, Celtic and romantic subjects.
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.
Sonoma County artist Kathleen Fitzpatrick creates nature photography of the wine country, and colorful, original landscapes and abstract acrylic paintings.
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.
Maria Bales is known for her paintings of Sonoma farms, rural landscapes, crows and some abstractions. She works in watercolor, oils, acrylics and colored pencil. She is also a knitting artist.
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.
Lorraine Weglarz is an installation artist and painter and works in gouache, watercolor and oils.
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.”
M.C. Carolyn is a Sonoma County artist known for her stone sculptures, painting in oils, acrylics and mixed mediums, mixed media artwork on paper, and public art commissions. A quote: “Starting with the human figure and then moving beyond it’s traditional shapes I explore the possibilities of not being predictable, nor violent but always speaking visually of the human condition.” M.C. has a BA in Painting from the University of California at Berkeley, graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, and researched abroad on Prehistoric, Copper Age, Bronze Age art, temples and tombs.
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.”
Liana Harris paints in oils and acrylics. She writes an art blog in order to show her work and express her thoughts about the process behind each painting.
Paula Peterson is active in painting, drawing, collages and mosaics. She shares her travel journal and mixed media meditations on her website.