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Sonoma Art Directory
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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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Tony Speirs is known for vintage and pop-culture inspired paintings and collaborative work, acrylics, silkscreens, life drawings, illustration, and circus posters.
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.
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.
The artist Warren Bellows, trained by Quang Ho at the Denver Art Students League, paints luminous landscapes, florals, and abstracts.
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.
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.
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.
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.