Artists of Sonoma

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Mardi Storm
artist, sculptor

Mardi Storm is a west Sonoma artist who enjoys painting, nature photography, mixed media, and creating large scale sculpture that merges life with art. She also offers “soul painting” workshops for artists.

Maria-Esther Sund
artist

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.

Thomas “Tom” Swearingen
artist

Tom Swearingen is known for his photo-realistic and hyper-realistic style, whimsical art and oil paintings.

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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.

Phyllis Calvin Thomas
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Phyllis Calvin Thomas paints Northern California and Sonoma landscapes. She often works with oil paints and a palette knife.

Kathleen Truax
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Kathleen Truax oil paints the landscapes of the Sonoma region, and also still lifes and abstractions.

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Popi Tyler is a Sonoma County watercolor artist.

Don Van Amerongen
artist

The artwork of Don Van Amerongen is influenced by art history, music and travel. Art history gives him perspective and music often matches his personal energy while he works. Living and traveling in several cultures, Don has developed compassion and empathy for other peoples, cultures and experiences, and “the gift of seeing another perspective”

Don has a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and also studied painting and printmaking at Sonoma State University. He also holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Kendall School of Design, Michigan.

Mary Linnea Vaughan
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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.

Martha Wade
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The Sonoma County artist Martha Wade specializes in figurative and narrative oil paintings.

Carole Rae Watanabe
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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.

Carole Watanabe, The Ecstatic Marriage of Life and Art

Lorraine Denise Weglarz

Lorraine Weglarz is an installation artist and painter and works in gouache, watercolor and oils.

Mylette Welch
artist

Mylette Welch is a California artist located in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, who specializes in paintings dogs.

Karen West
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The artist Karen West paints local and European landscapes, cityscapes and close-ups.

Henry White
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Henry White is an artist and musician that uses oil paints to create sweeping Sonoma landscapes, still lifes and portraits. His work is on display at the Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg, Towers Gallery in Cloverdale, and Riverfront Art Gallery in Petaluma.

Rae Ann Williams
artist

Rae Ann Williams is Sonoma County artist. Her primary focus is watercolor, but she also is interested in collages.

Carolyn Wilson
artist

Carolyn Wilson specializes in watercolor, collage and mixed media.

artist, blogger

Abigail Zimmerman is known for painting sensory impressions of California landscapes. She also keeps a blog about the food, wine and art of Sonoma, known as Abi’s Farmhouse Kitchen.

artist, printmaker

Gen Zorich is a Sonoma County painter and printmaker and produces Sonoma area landscapes and abstracts.