ANITA LINCOLN
Anita Lincoln is a working and teaching artist specializing in visual arts including painting, mixed media, drawing, collage and unintentional sculpture. Lincoln began her career directing a gallery for emerging artists. She taught for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, The Sacramento Children’s Museum and other non profits to expand visual arts and create a thriving art community. She has been a working artist for over 25 years. "I am haphazard, and a bit rebellious. I try to doodle or make some form of art every time I get a moment to myself.”
SAMANTHA MABIE-TUINISTRA
California based fine art painter, Samantha Mabie, draws inspiration from esoteric philosophies, plant medicines, nature, other creatives and a career in visual effects for film and television. Her work can be viewed by appointment at her studio and found in private collections across the United States.
LOLA REYES-GRANT
Lola is the artist behind Lolavee Creative, a surface pattern design boutique. Her passion for storytelling through art is unmistakable – every hint of heritage and nature is elevated with an artful touch of drama. Inspired by culture and flora, she creates tapestries with narratives that resonate deeply. Lola’s diverse artistic journey spans various mediums, as she thrives on pushing the boundaries of her creativity. She earned her MFA from the Academy of Art University, where she gained her commitment to excellence. She continues to strive for designs that not only adorn your space but also enrich your cultural sensibilities.
SONIA BREUCH
Sonia works with paint, as well as pen and ink. She creates surreal images influenced by traditional tattooing, ornamental art, botany, and etching. She is breaking into the professional art scene with a portfolio full of captivating organic work.
MIEKE BLEES
Mieke's work consists of large scale drawings, paintings and ceramic sculpture. Originally from the Netherlands, she's been living and working in Nevada County for many years. Mieke likes her work to read a bit like handwriting; immediate and intimate, yet subtly revealing the human presence behind it. Rather then making obvious or bold statements, it emphasizes the gradual process of something growing into its own being. The work tends to be pretty abstract, but she also enjoys using some figurative and symbolic elements, to bring the work closer to the human psychology.
CHANTELLE GOLDTHWAITE
I have been influenced most by the places in my life... Northern California, the Deep South and Rhode Island. I have collected daydream memories, a vivid color palette and a rich and tangible sense of place throughout my travels. My most prevalent themes deal with the transformations we experience throughout our lives. At this point in my life, I am really enjoying the discovery of how all the seemingly disparate threads come together with time and distance. I explore these themes through the use of color, found and forgotten treasures, simple images and the desire to convey a sense of place that is more memory than reality.
KATHRYN WRONSKI
For over 20 years, Kathryn has been busy full time doing what she loves. Animals and local scenes with bold, happy colors has been the norm for her small to large oil paintings. She looks for subjects that create smiles.
ELIZABETH WINTERS
Elizabeth is an artist specializing in oil and watercolor painting. Elizabeth is inspired by the natural beauty of Northern California and strives to celebrate that beauty in her art.
VALERIE OSTENAK
I am a multidisciplinary artist, painter, and metalsmith currently focused on painting. My art is about movement, transformation, and the energy within—its effect on us and the power we have to affect it. The pieces I create speak to hope, weathering the storms, learning to swim within the chaos. I am inviting the richness of possibility that comes with transformation and change. Meant to stir emotions and feelings rather than anchored with a visually recognizable object, my paintings are nature-based abstracts in an atmospheric dreamy style, rich in color and often with high contrast between darks and lights.
AMY GRANDELL
I have been working with color in all different mediums and styles since I was five years of age. My favorite artistic style is working with acrylic paint. I tend to lean towards impressionism, but love anything with color. I also create custom art using wood burner tools, epoxy resin and faux finish. My vision is to share my love for art with a wider audience and to create a space where people can come together to engage with color and with each other. I believe that art has the power to inspire, to challenge and to transform.
BETSY LOMBARD
The most intimate level of things draws my appreciation: leaves, feathers, bark (madrone paper!), spider web mandalas, a tree frog's eye mask. As I paint I want to create something whose power and grace is familiar, exhilarating and comforting too. Not as a repeat but as an image / feeling that already existed in subconsciousness: a sort of time travel. It already existed because it does now, and has a place here.
MARY LETT KOBER
California based contemporary painter and figurative artist. Grateful to be enjoying a creative life in both the country (Nevada County) and the city (Sacramento). It is funny, in these turbulent times, to dedicate so much time to creating quiet, still objects. For me, making art is anything but quiet or still. A blank canvas is pure anticipation. Wet paint is a sumptuous thing. The process is empowering and full of a thousand decisions. A completed painting never quite feels done. With best laid plans, the next piece is still always a mystery. Somehow, through it all, a painting comes to life.
CHRISTINE HAYMAN
Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings with vivid contrasting color and thick painterly textures in oils. Inspired by the natural world, Hayman believes in a process of constant investigation. Trained early on as a classical pianist, Hayman has been greatly influenced by music in her life. Actively involved in theater and dance at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and Baltimore, her creative talents eventually led to her primary focus as a visual artist.
ALICE KRASINSKI
Currently working in acrylic, my artwork focuses primarily on the natural world, most often inspired by the ways in which light interacts with environments and objects in my life. I paint places and moments that moved me, channeling the energy and joy of fleeting moments. Like a hike on a mountain trail or a wander on a beach, every painting is an exploration. Though I have a starting point with each canvas, I never know what I will discover in the process or where I will end up. This is what keeps me painting.
RACHELLE GARNITZ
My paintings are inspired by people's moments of happiness. I love using bright colors in my paintings, photography and in the mosaics that I create from the food that I grow in my garden. I do commissions for people who want to capture moments of empowerment and joy.
RYOTA MATSUMOTO
Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, media theorist, and architect based in the United States and Japan. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at the Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Matsumoto has collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, and MIT Media Lab. He has served as the MFA lecturer of Transart Institute, University of Plymouth and is a research associate at the New Centre of Research & Practice.
EVA SALYER
I paint heads. Women's heads to be exact. I love to create faces, round cheeks, lips, color, earrings, long hair, swirls, plants, words, music and odd things. My current obsessions are translucency and disruption. My art represents the full gamut of feelings. I'm a melting pot of styles and I don't like being defined (confined) by a specific school of art. I'm figuring out who I am as I go!
SONIA McNALLY
My work is driven by observing my environment piece by piece and reflecting commonalities inherent between even the most disparate of associations. I create abstract interpretations with faintly recognizable traits that evoke familiar connections even though the subject inspiration may not be apparent. - Graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Art Practice in 2008 with highest honors - Nominated and awarded an honor studio in 2007, a privilege only 8 students out of the entire Art Practice department are awarded. - Received the Certificate of Excellence in painting for 2008 graduating class.
DIANE SYLVIA
Diane Sylvia is a Truckee, California based artist. As the daughter of an artist, she grew up in a creative environment. After leaving her Emergency Nursing career, she began to explore her artistic abilities. Working in acrylic and graphite, nature is a strong influence in Diane's artwork as she seeks to celebrate the beauty of her mountain home. Diane was a featured artist in the 9th annual pARTicipate Art Show, and in Truckee Arts Alliance Tahoe Perspective Exhibition.
JERIANNE VAN DIJK
I enjoy many endeavors, being an illustrator, I do Fine Art as well as Murals. I believe in beauty, whimsy and that visuals change our lives like Magic. I mainly work in watercolor yet expand when the piece calls for other mediums. There are no rules.
JULIAN VADAS
Elaborate organic abstraction in oils, acrylic, and watercolor. Works on wood and paper fill the artist's historic loft studio in downtown Nevada City. Studio visits by appointment only, contact the artist to schedule any day of the week.
JANE LEE
I love experimenting with different medium. I started with watercolor and ventured into acrylic, mixed media, paper mache, wire art, and recently started enjoying digital painting using Procreate. I am always searching for a new fields of art and joy.
CHÉRI GUERRETTE
My work expresses itself through a passion for unlimited possibilities, exploration and experimentation with watercolor, acrylic, mixed media collage and most recently oils. My work is based on my love of the figurative image, developing an overall concept to tell a story relating to the American culture of the 1950’s and 60’s. I am very drawn to the elegance, style and simplicity of that era. The creative process for me is a continuous experience of stepping into the unknown and allowing the magic to unfold.
SOREN WOLFF
Large format abstract, oil on canvas,
MARA SPRIER
As a renaissance visionary skilled in many creative areas, Mara is a visual artist living and working in Northern California. Highly influenced by the environment and she draws much of her inspiration from mythology and the natural world.
LAURA MONTGOMERY WAAG
Laura enjoyed an award-winning career in graphic design with her own business: Sidedoor Studio. She now works primarily in two mediums. The first is letterpress printing. Using an antique Vandercook printing press, she designs a variety of cards and prints. She also does silk painting, creating vibrant designs on Habotai silk. The dyed silk is steamed, joining the fiber and dyes molecularly, creating incredibly vibrant, luminescent colors. This unique, challenging art form inspires Laura’s love of bold color and graphic forms.
REENIE McMAINS
Living in the natural playground of Tahoe, Reenie hikes, snowshoes, and paddles in some of the most delightful scenery in the world. The visual stimulation of light play, textured meadow grass, and coastal colors inspire her to pour inky messes on glass, metal, and gesso boards, then blow, swipe, and swirl until nature’s patterns reveal themselves. She believes her artwork is a celebration of what’s beautiful in a world where it’s becoming the default to see the ugliness. Always the individualist, Reenie prefers the abstract style because it flaunts perfectionism, and allows the viewer to interpret the message.
REBECCA LAMOLY
I paint individuals enjoying simple everyday pleasures to remind us that joy is always possible. We smile when we observe others enjoying a good book on a park bench, jumping in waves, or strumming guitars with friends. There are daily gifts and if we choose to see them, we regain wonder.
MICHELLE JEWETT
I am an acrylic/mixed media and fluid acrylic artist. I love using vibrant colors in my paintings. The fluidity of my acrylics provides me with the ability to create organic shapes and movement in my pieces. I also love the elegant feel of negative space which I feel provides interesting compositions. My work is often inspired by natural landscapes, such as mountains, flowing water, coastlines and flowers.
DARICE MACHEL MCGUIRE
I am an artist living in Grass Valley, California. I have been studying and pursuing art for most my life. My art works include Hawaii and California landscapes, creatures of the land and sea, and still life, in either oil or acrylic mediums.
