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Sonoma Art Directory
painting and drawing
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.
Carole Rae Watanabe paints in an energetic and impressionist style. Her paintings are often featured on the wine labels of Artiste Winery in the Santa Inez Valley California, and Atascadero Creek Winery in Sonoma County. She has also written the book, The Ecstatic Marriage of Life and Art.
Gen Zorich is a Sonoma County painter and printmaker and produces Sonoma area landscapes and abstracts.
Joanne Tepper is known for her oil paintings of still life and birds. Her art was featured on the cover of the 2014 ArtTrails Catalog. She has a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lisa Beerntsen paints underlying abstract forms, color, and movement, overlaid with patterns culled from diverse cultures (Islamic, Celtic, Tibetan, American quilters), as well as plant and flower forms. Lisa has also been an adjunct art instructor at the Santa Rosa Junior College for over 10 years. She has previously taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, California State University, Stanislaus, as well as the Universities of Maine and Massachusetts. Lisa has an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts.
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.
Brooks Anderson is a painter of large-scale landscapes, cloudscapes, seascapes and abstracts, and has painted in Los Angeles, Maine and the south of France. He resides now in Sonoma County. His work can be found in numerous collections, including the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa. He has a B.F.A. from California State University
Barbara Jacobs is known for drawing, painting in a variety of media, pastels, digital art, monotypes, and mixed media. Her fine art and her designs range from the ‘painterly’ to more structured, sometimes including historic or intercultural design references or whimsical motifs.
Sterling Hoffman paints seascapes, landscapes, farmscapes, tractors and vintage vehicles, often on location. He is known for his oil paintings with a saturated pallet.
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.
Maria-Esther Sund is known for her mixed media art, creative paintings and collages. Before settling in Northern California, she was born and raised in El Salvador, and studied art at Simmons College in Boston, MA and La Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla, Mexico.
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.
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.
Linus Maurer is a cartoonist and artist who resides in Kenwood. He graduated from the Minneapolis School of Art in 1950, and created the cartoon strips Old Harrigan, Abracadabra and In the Beginning, and later Newshound for the Sonoma Index-Tribune. He was a friend of Charles Schulz, who named a character after him in the comic strip Peanuts.
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.
Lin Lipetz (1928-2014) was a Sonoma author, artist, instructor and interior architect. She was born in Bozeman, Montana, and studied interior architecture and fine art in Washington and California, before finally settling in Sonoma County. She served on the Cultural and Fine Arts Commission for the City of Sonoma, and helped establish the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in the 1990s. She also wrote the book, The Secret of Inner Presence. Lin was “a mentor for many students and a friend to all.” Lin had a B.A. from San Jose State University in interior architecture, and M.F.A from the University of Washington in ceramics, textiles and painting.
Gayle Manfre is an artist and educator who was born in San Francisco, and moved to Sonoma in 1980. She works in watercolors and acrylics, and directs children on mural projects. Gayle also works for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, leading the “Arts Rewards the Students” program.
Ryan Peterson is an Petaluma artist who paints murals and expressionistic works.
Artist Marsha Klein is a “contemporary visual artist (who) creates metaphorically expressive large format oil paintings and sculptural ceramics.” Marsha has a B.A. in Art and Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ken Berman is a Western Sonoma artist who focuses on mechanical and industrial themes in oil paint. He has a background education and career in architecture. “I loosely describe my artwork as Industrial with architectonic and mechanical influences referencing Cubism, Constructivism, Dadaism and the Steampunk movement.”
Sandra Maresca is a Western Sonoma County artist who provides abstract and impressionistic paintings, animals with attitudes, figures, narratives, still lifes and landscapes. She also provides small spirit totem sculptures, wall hangings and fiber accessories.
Lorraine Chapman creates paintings on silk, mixed media art, botanicals and encaustic paintings.
Sandra Lane paints landscapes and human forms on canvas and archival paper, in a rather abstract manner.
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.”
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.
Gerald Huth is an expressionist artist and works with collages, paintings, sculptures. A quote from the artist: “The role of the artist is to fulfill the human expression of the time in which we live.”
Helen Mehl is an artist and art teacher who is interested in conveying wellness and Feng Shui through her work. She combines brightly painted colors, layers, textures and symbols. Helen received her Master of Arts degree at San Jose State University, and a B.A. degree from Stanford University in history and art. Helen has taught art in California, Pennsylvania and Hawaii.
Judy Butler was known for “painterly plein air oil paintings of the Northern California wine country and Pacific coast.” Judy studied art at Stanford University (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA). Judy lived, worked and painted in Berkeley, New York, Egypt, Silicon Valley, Monterey and the Sonoma wine country. Before devoting herself full time to fine art, she worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, graphics manager and art director.