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.
RACHEL REIN
Rachel Rein is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, writer, and educator. For several years, her work has focused on exploring and visualizing chromosome segment data from commercial DNA tests. She is currently teaching art in public elementary schools through the Artists in Schools program. Rein is also a volunteer researcher for California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP), the non-profit of the Nisenan Tribe, on whose lands she lives, works, and recreates.
MAILE CLAIRE
Drawings | Paintings | Prints | Illustration | Assemblage
Maile is interested in the intersection of people and place; their social, cultural and natural habitats, the environments we inherit and shape, and which in turn shape us.
JANET ALLINGER
Illustrator and graphic designer based in both Santa Cruz and Truckee, California known for my pin ups and monsters. I also “paint” with torn paper from vintage magazines to create unique and slightly irreverent collage art.
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.
RACHEL JOHNSON
I use acrylic paint on canvas and other surfaces to capture the divine feminine and its mysterious and powerful nature. My most involved artistic practice is teaching kindergarten-8th grade students at schools throughout Nevada County. I represent and teach for the Nevada County Arts Council through their Artists in Schools program. I am a proud little artist teacher.
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.
PHILIP MILIĆ
Philip has been tattooing for nearly 29 years, starting in the summer of 1995 in Huntington Beach, CA. 22 years of his craft was spent residing in the Bay Area. His work has been inspired by multi cultural influences through his world travels and studies. My work is a culmination of fine-line, juxtaposed with heavy black. Always allowing the shapes of the body to tell the story of placement and movement. I find my work to both honor the spiritual and the material realms of life.
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.
VLATKA VARGA
Vlatka Varga is a multimedia artist working in metal, oil /wax, acrylic and printmaking. She is interested in abstract landscape and human figure as a presence in the landscape. Most recent work focused on a series of biographical narrative paintings in combination with story telling performance and video document of the event. Vlatka worked as a visiting artist in Tuolumne County Schools through the California Arts Council Arts Reach to Schools grant as well as in California Arts in Corrections Program.
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.
JENNY HALE
Jenny Hale has created art for public spaces in a variety of media, including film, large-scale sculpture and public theater. Her work is informed by a deep belief in the power of art to build community.
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.
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.
ANITA PEARSON
I am a local Professional Artist and Teaching Artist. I specialize in Painting, Collage and Mixed Media. I also write poetry as an outlet for my wild and dark side.
PEGGY WRIGHT
Peggy Wright interprets concepts and ideas through the use of mixed media by utilizing painting, printmaking, stitching and drawing techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SORA ONYX
I work primarily as a hand tattooer for the last 17 years, and am also an illustrator, painter, mixed media artist and beadworker. After 10 years of living in Goa, India for the winters, practicing tattooing, and traveling with the art all over the world, Nevada County became my home of the last 11 years. I have a Tattoo Garden and home art studio where I work with clients who want custom Tattoo and design artwork. Painting and beadwork are a passionate and personal expression and adventure. The natural world and ancient civilizations inspire everything I create.
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.
