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.

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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. 

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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. 

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Focused on the intersection of art, music, media, nature, and community, Myrtle Tree Arts is an arts collaborative with the mission to develop and present new creative works, experiences, and performances, and especially those that explore relationships with the natural world. We encourage creativity by hosting local and international musicians, artists, and writers and by collaborating with scientists, cultural keepers, and supporters of all kinds. We partner with local organizations and others interested in presenting the arts and supporting community engagement in the Sierra Foothills of CA and beyond.

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Ameera Godwin is co-founder and artistic director of Myrtle Tree Arts. Her creative works include public events and multimedia performance and installation, including FIRE/LAND: Knowing the Territory, Earth Dayta, The Size of What I See, and RIPE AREA, supported by CA Arts Council funding in partnership with American River Conservancy. Her interdisciplinary artwork integrates digital photography and video collage, drawing, and writing with collaborative, site-specific ritual, performance, installation, and musical concerts. The themes of her work lie at the intersection of art, science, and community action around resilience, learning, and caring for the environment.

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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.

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I am a fused glass artist and have been working this medium for approximately 25 years. I love to explore new techniques and mostly love creating designs that celebrate both nature and the human spirit.

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David Harper is a Nevada county based, freelance animator and character designer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Peggy Wright interprets concepts and ideas through the use of mixed media by utilizing painting, printmaking, stitching and drawing techniques.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jacque is a contemporary artist creating both landscape and figural oil paintings. The peaceful scenes and modern color palettes are what Jacque is known for. You can find her work in Truckee at the Mountain Arts Collective. Jacque also offers art classes, private lessons, and retreats.

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Abstract contemporary works, including:

Original Art | Limited Edition Prints

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Sara's work is inspired by the intersection of human and wild… we desire to touch something that is unaltered and deeply rooted, and by doing so we change it and it changes us. We crave true wilderness and an experience of something far from pavement. These pieces have been created using a mix or modern and traditional techniques… spray paint, graffiti materials, sometimes building remnants and reclaimed materials… to depict images of the wild world with which we seek to connect.

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I am an Earth Artist, collecting, studying, and preparing minerals from the earth to make paints for my artwork. Being a lifelong artist with relentless interest in historical roots, I enjoy digging into the ancient past exploring various techniques, processes along with ancient signs in caves and roots of ancient languages.

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Corey Hitchcock Is a lifelong artist, Rinzai Zen student & shamanic practitioner. She works primarily in mixed paint media on birch panels, paper and canvas though occasionally works in installation and printmaking. Corey’s portfolio of recent paintings from 2022 are influenced by her Zen koan meditation practice with Pacific Zen Institute. Her work references inner and outer landscapes & states of being. She received her MFA from JFKU’s Studio Art program in Arts & Consciousness in 2005 and was awarded a Cadogan/Murphy Scholarship (Bay Area MFA students ) for her monoprint and painting work in 2002.

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Sarah Miller (Myers as a maiden) grew up in the Tahoe/Truckee area, and desires to grow old here. Her love for the community and the landscape shows no sign of decline. She derives much inspiration from the beautiful surroundings Nevada county has to offer, as is exemplified by her Frozen Fall series. She loves to work with her hands whether it be with clay, wood, paper or pixels. She enjoys all aspects of art, especially when a story is told. Sarah currently contracts to push pixels for Truckee’s independent newspaper Moonshine ink.

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I love capturing the experience of being outside in the natural environment and radiating that ambiance and energy in a home. This encourages me to create rhythm and movement by weaving multiple paint layers in and out to suggest water rippling, light changing, shadows moving, temperatures warming and cooling, or the wind coming up and dying down. I can never reproduce the same painting just like If I go back another day to the same spot, it’s just never the same. A Boston native, skiing brought her to Tahoe in the mid 1990’s. She lives in Truckee.

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Cathee vanRossem-St.Clair is a miniaturist who has earned national and international recognition for her paintings on eggshells and other unique surfaces. Her work has been showcased in special museum exhibitions throughout the country. One of her painted eggs, commissioned by the White House, is in the National Archives. "I honor this beautiful and unpredictable world and want every mark I make to be filled with kindness and care."

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My studio practice merges a fidelity to the material and social worlds with delight in the expressive possibilities of charcoal, paper, paint and discarded materials. I am interested in land/landscape, people, shadows, and texts, and am committed to a visual rhetoric that combines deliberation with rawness. I gravitate toward malleable, inexpensive materials and don’t strive to create artIfacts that look finished or highly resolved. These choices allow me to explore visual expressions akin to poetry, resistance to certitudes, my own lived relation to contested lands, and preference for living in between spaces of all kinds.

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Currently I work in acrylics on large-scale canvases, with a focus on the human figure. I also use photography to create abstract compositions, printed on canvas or bond paper.

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An artist since 1966. A member of American Women Artists, Oil Painters of America. Influenced by Maynard Dixon, Group of Seven of Canada. I am intrigued by clouds and the land.

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Saree Robinson is a Vermont-bred, California-seasoned, multi-disciplined artist who now calls Nevada County home. Primarily known for her conceptual paper arts creations, Saree loves exploring the process of transformation. Drawing inspiration from a kaleidoscope of music, international travel, her love of animals, a deep reverence for the Earth, haute couture fashion, her art history studies and dream world experiences, Saree's colorful style is instantly recognizable.

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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.

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Fascination with light, shadow, and color – inherited from three generations of artists - have taken many forms and paths throughout my life. The resulting mixed-media art echoes the journey of inner exploration, questions, and loving expression. Alarm for the natural world, my work is an offering - to the beauty and wonder I derive from the natural landscapes and the love that enriches life. If art can reach hearts and touch minds to make positive change - I can think of no greater success an artist could achieve.

Residential & Commercial Interiors, Commissions

Murals and Artist Collaborations

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I work in various painting mediums. Figures and a sense of place are evident in my work.

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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.

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I use photography as a means to document the everyday world around me. I make pictures that call attention to things that other people might overlook or consider mundane. This exploration of the mundane helps me be more fully present in my everyday life. My goal is to make photographs that make the viewer go “AHA, I never noticed that!” and draw them into the beauty of the mundane. I use my photography to explore worlds that can only happen in fantasy and fiction. I enjoy incorporating people in my worlds where they can explore their inner world of delight.

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Christy is a Visual Artist, Surface Pattern Designer, and Children’s Book Author. She is one of 4% of people worldwide with Synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon that essentially imparts her with ‘extra senses’ allowing her to see colors & patterns when hearing music, smell & taste colors, and more. Her work is in many countries and around the US. Christy has lived & traveled in many places around the world, gaining inspiration from its music, colors and historic textiles. From vibrant Abstract Artwork to Pattern Designs to Murals, Christy is constantly expanding her Artistic mediums to make the world more colorful!

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I am an acrylic fluid and mixed media artist specializing in free-flowing abstract compositions. I enjoy using various techniques to create my pieces and receive inspiration from nature and imagination.

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Large format abstract, oil on canvas,

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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.

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My art is created both in the traditional way, on flat canvas, but also on the LIVING canvas of the human body.

Throw Pillows | Phone Cases | Ceramic Mugs | Framed Prints

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A line of colorful greeting cards that celebrates the special bond animals have with each other.

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Watercolor painter of the Nevada County landscapes.

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Joseph Daniel Fiedler has illustrated children’s books, received a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators, and has been recognized by Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, American Illustration, the Society of Publication Designers, The Spectrum International Annual of Fantastic Art, Taschen Publishing, and the Broadcasting Design Association, among others. In addition to having a career in Illustration, Joseph has exhibited his paintings both in this country as well as in Japan. Joseph has taught illustration both at Carnegie Mellon University and at The College for Creative Studies and has lived in Pennsylvania, Tokyo, New Mexico, Michigan and California.

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Artwork inspired by the wilderness, mountains, and wildlife near Sara Mohagen’s Tahoe cabin.

Unique Fine Art | Illustrations | Cards | Prints

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Lifting your spirits and bringing on smiles is what the whimsy in my pen and ink watercolor art sparks in your everyday life.

Original Watercolors - Custom Framed | Small Art 6” x 7” Originals | Prints on Metal, Acrylic, Canvas | Miscellaneous: Tote Bags, Key Chains, Mouse Pads, Coasters, Playing Cards

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Jessica is a bright impressionistic artist representing nature, animals and people. She creates custom one-of-a-kind pieces as well as surface design art represented in licensing by Penny Lane Publishing. The natural beauty, people and animals of Nevada County inspires Jessica to create fresh, energetic pieces.

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My name is Yinneboma Amoah Peterson and I am an artist that creates and makes in all kinds of art mediums, my main mediums are drawing, painting, animation, cartooning, sculpting, and tons more. I am so creative and I love using my imagination in creating all kinds of unique art.

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I am a multimedia junk artist who works primarily in textiles. I have a focus on creating wearable art pieces and doll art. I strive to use only second hand, discarded or natural materials in my works in a personal goal of re-use and sustainability. Originally from a small island off the coast of British Columbia, I now call Nevada County home.

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Beth Leydon is a fiber artist specializing in wet felting and nuno felting. She enjoys experimenting with a variety of fibers; merino wool, silk, cotton, bamboo, etc, in order to create functional and wearable art. The simplicity of using soapy water and agitation to fuse and form endless varieties of effects is her delight. She has shown her work at local arts and craft shows and galleries. Beth enjoys teaching this art form in her home studio and community maker spaces.

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Suzanne is a fiber artist employing the techniques of Nuno, Wet & Shibori Felting to her wearable Art expressions. She finds great inspiration from natures’ kaleidoscope of colors, and design patterns. You will find her Felting to be unique, both elegant or rustic, gender neutral or not. She spends time with a variety of fibers to produce her One of a Kind, Art To Wear scarves, shawls, neck cowls, and other appealing apparel.

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