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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
Linda Ortiz is known for her Southwestern American art themes.
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.
Artist Roy Pearson was born in England and studied in London, before his move to Sonoma Valley. He enjoys a wide range of medium, and paints abstract, stylized and realistic subjects. You might see his work in Chevys posters and interiors, as he was their art director and artist before retirement.
Ryan Peterson is an Petaluma artist who paints murals and expressionistic works.
Elizabeth Peyton creates drawings, mixed media, botanicals, collages and watercolor paintings.
Ellie Portner is an artist of graphite drawings, oil painting, monoprints, paper collages, welded steel, and other mixed media.
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.
Robin Purcell is a Sonoma County plein air artist, and watercolorist.
Anne Regan is a Sonoma County mixed media artist and painter, known for painting wildlife on granite and bicycle collages.
James Reynolds creates oil paintings and pastels of landscapes, wildlife and portraits.
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 Nancy Ray Ricciardi paints landscapes of Sonoma County, portraits, and dragons, using acrylic and watercolors.
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.”
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.
Sandra Rubin is an artist from Western Sonoma. She paints expressive and abstract figures, still lifes and landscapes.
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.
Cedora Scheiblich (1920-2011) loved to paint in oil, pastel, watercolor, and gouache. A long-time resident of Sonoma Valley, she painted the landscapes of region, and scenes of the Northwest. She was also an art instructor and a founding member of the Valley of the Moon Art Association.
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.
Monica Schwalbenberg-Pena creates mixed media and paintings about place and everyday objects: “art about the place, drawn from the land”.
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.
Justina Selinger describes herself as “a painter of the light and its enhancements.” She paints landscapes and still lifes in an impressionistic style.
Marcy Silveira paints the landscapes of Northern California, in plein air with oils and water soluble oils.
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.
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.”
Tony Speirs is known for vintage and pop-culture inspired paintings and collaborative work, acrylics, silkscreens, life drawings, illustration, and circus posters.
The artist Karen Spratt is known for her paintings of fanciful compositions and weaving wool rugs.