"TheArthur Wright is a pointillist bleach artist who expresses the culture of blackness in his paintings. Wright believes that expression of truths or beliefs about existence is a fundamental component to delivering artists’ works, specifically using snippets of life lessons we’ve learned to deliver the message." -The Oakland Artists Project

"Wosene (his professional name) has created an internationally recognized artistic signature in his work by being the first contemporary Ethiopian-born artist to use the script forms – fiedel – of his native Amharic as a core element in his paintings and sculptures." -The Loft Galeria

"An artist from childhood who was painting in oils by the age of seventeen, Jerry Garcia in his youth thought of himself as 'an artist who played music.'" -The Jerry Garcia Foundation

"The bookmaking community is blessed with an outstanding array of talented letterpress printers, hand bookbinders, papermakers, typog-raphers, and gifted artists. The Press draws from this remarkable collection of talent to help execute its goal of publishing significant, collectable editions of the highest quality." -Nawakum Press

"Tilden Daken (1876-1935) is best known as a California Impressionist...He painted over 4,000 landscapes en plein air, directly from nature to capture the light of the day from dawn until dusk. He also painted in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Mexico, Baja, Hawaii, the South Seas, and parts of the East Coast." -Tilden Daken Legacy Project

"By paying homage to the Bishop Pines and billowing fog, candle lanterns at moonlight, dogs with sticks and old hand built barns, Susan Hall presents us with an illumination of the everyday as it exists within the natural world." -Erickson Fine Art Gallery

"In her portraiture celebrating women, figurative work exploring memory, and in Asian inspired abstraction, Davis’s work invites the viewer to search beneath richly layered and textured surfaces. She is also pulled to beauty for it’s own sake, and to pure play and abandon. The freedom to move back and forth between mediums and moods is central to keeping joy at the helm of her creative process." -Rachel Davis Studio

"The wooden carved figures of Joe Brubaker echo sources of inspiration from Spanish colonial Santos and retablo objects to Egyptian tomb figure and Buddhist stone carvings. In recent works, Brubaker has gone beyond these early influences, crossing cultures on a broader basis. He has included forms reminiscent of ritual costumes and body decorations from indigenous peoples all over the world." -Seager Gray Gallery

"As a smokejumper it was critical for me to pay careful attention to the terrain, weather and all the elements of nature. As an artist I try to use that observation in my painting to capture the look and feel of movement in the clouds and to convey the mood and atmosphere." -Davis Perkins Fine Art

"Gloria Matuszewski’s meditative abstract geometric paintings and drawings are inspired by and pay tribute to anonymous artisans, usually women and children, who have worked for centuries, and continue to work laboriously — often under horrific conditions — to create fabrics and textiles to clothe, decorate and bring warmth and beauty to everyday life." -Andra Norris Gallery

"Crystal is well known for her etherial, metamorphic sculptures of the human figure created from found driftwood. She personally selects each piece of wood for its natural energy and flow, incorporating the human form into the driftwood. Crystal has also expanded her practice to include stone and bronze sculpture." -Crystal Lockwood Sculpture

"Gale S. McKee is a Northern California painter whose sophisticated landscape, figurative and abstract work has received national acknowledge-ment. She works in acrylic on canvas, linen, and mixed media." -Gale S. Mckee Fine Art

"Rowboats floating in the sky, drifting leaves, puffy clouds, collections of objects (sometimes including clouds) casting shadows in wall niches, and the mysteriousness of shiny spheres recur in Jeff Faust’s work, which he labels 'subtle surrealism.' 'I paint things that I want to see happen but can’t in real life. I find gentle twists on reality comforting,' he says." -CODA Gallery

"Working in many medias, wood, ceramics, sometimes adding cloth, he paints on wood panels, with oil. The paintings are more abstract. This method of painting is often used on his sculptures. His work varies from 8 inches to close to 3ft. There is an element of naïve simplicity almost folk-like to the work." -Robert Adams Art

"Rendering a subject with accuracy and beauty in pen and ink is a foundation activity for the understanding of tonal variation and shape formation. Working with a set palette of 20 transparent watercolors provides a more complex challenge and requires a quiet dedication to the understanding of form and function of plant pigments. Our goal is to allow our art to create awareness of the fragility and beauty of the plant life that sustains our very existence on this planet…" -Mary Harden

"The basis of my work lies in my need for beauty, a strong sense of humor and whimsey, and my enduring love for the environment and animals, endangered animals in particular." -Antoinette von Grone

"Chester Arnold's paintings convey the complexities of the human psyche. His compositions often present skewed perspectives that often place the viewer at a remove, above unfolding narratives." -Catharine Clark Gallery

"The paintings of Carole Pierce result from a lifelong fascination with the sky. They have the appearance of landscape, but the artist concerns herself, not with the solidity of the land, but the elusiveness of mist, shadow and light." -Seager Gray Gallery

Erica's large and vibrantly colorful animal paintings demonstrate her patience and incredible attention to detail. Using oil paints, she creates realistic, yet fantastical creatures that are always fun to see in real life.

"I have found that weaving provides the perfect balance of structure and freedom...My designs are intentionally spare, often abstract, and minimalist in style and composition. Small design details are embedded in the work, allowing the observant viewer to discover them on closer examination. I enjoy experimenting with materials, compositions, themes and perspectives." -Sue Weil Fiber Art

"As an artist living in Marin County, California, Terry is drawn by the beauty of the surrounding landscape, often painting on location. Her plein air paintings are created in a direct, immediate style responding to the warmth or coolness of the air, the stillness or rush of the wind, the calm of the coastal mist, or the bright summer light of the golden hillsides." -Terry Lockman website

"Laurie Mahan Sawyer dedicates her art to engaging viewers in the wonder and complexity of the natural world...from delicate watercolors of microscopic animals to bold scratchboard or ink on clay board." -Bolinas Museum

Transitioning from painting photo-realistic landscapes, James Warren Perry (JWP), has created a fun, quirky, bold collection of work. His acrylic paintings often convey social and political statements in a fun, colorful way.

"The spirit and honesty of his vibrant, colorful, usually action-oriented marine art reflects both his prodigious artistic skills and his long and successful career racing sailboats." -Marine Artist Jim DeWitt

"My work is concerned mostly with the feeling or temperament of a place be it a landscape or an interior. With the landscape I’m interested in capturing fleeting moments through changes in light and atmosphere. With the interiors, I hope to convey what makes these spaces personal, what gives them character, what feeling they evoke." -Wendy Goldberg

"Being interested in Eastern and Western mysticism and esoteric points of view, my inspiration has been discovering the unseen nature of things and multidimensionality of life and beyond life and all that is...My process in painting is intuitive and spontaneous as I have a inner vision or idea and I follow it! Sometimes I just channel a feel or transfer hearing into visual." -Plamen Tanev

"My works are realistic – sometimes titled with the locations that inspired them – but they are not 'real' in a literal sense, not faithful reproductions of places observed. Rather, they are the landscape rendered down to its pure essence, the raw beauty distilled in order to convey my personal experience of it." -Kristen Garneau

"She[Gail] captures the soothing exuberance of the Western landscape by reducing each experience to its visual and emotional essence...she likes to experiment with deconstruction and making the layers of paint as thin as possible, often times rubbing 60% of the paint off the canvas, or using steel wool and razor blades to distress the paint." -Bonner David Galleries

"Catherine Dellor studied commercial art in college and ornamental horticulture. She now fulfills her love of the botanical world by trying to capture it with 'plant portraits.' She works mostly in watercolor but also likes colored pencil and pen and ink." -San Mateo Daily Journal

As a contemporary realist landscape artist, Suzanne strives to preserve the pristine beauty of the Earth and believes "...that landscape painting, far from being an old fashioned subject that it is sometimes made out to be, is in the vanguard of artistic social responsibility." -Marin Arts

"Don Kellogg works as both a commercial and fine arts photographer. In between commercial and editorial jobs, Don works on the art of visual discovery and conceptual photography. He explores everything that reflects light, looking for concepts, patterns, textures, and moments of life and light to create, capture and frame “beauty” in compositions of exquisite fine art images." -Don Kellogg website

"She [Marne] has traveled to Mala Mala, South Africa, on safari, gathering photographs and enjoying the animals in the natural habitat. Her paintings are done in oil paints and generally in bright colors with a graphic quality that some interpret as a contemporary / primitive blend. The border, which appears as a frame for each picture, is an intricate lace made up of people, plants and animals, painted with oil paints, a small brush and patience." -Marne Jane website

"Katherine Warinner is an artist working primarily with printmaking. Her monotypes—a hybrid of painting and printmaking, digital imagery and photographic processes—reinvent traditional forms of printing with modern technology. Inspired by a love of design, the landscape and her garden, she seeks to illuminate and elevate the timeless beauty of the natural world." -Colibri Gallery

"Bolles characterizes his art as being about the materials, the finishes, and the colors. In order to consider his work successful, it must 'attain an indefinable and elusive balance of color, light and texture'...His artwork is 'sketched out' first with a computer program. Due to the digitization of the image, zeros and ones from the binary code are left behind and become part of the work." -Merritt Gallery

"Light falling on water as visual metaphor for the fleeting quality of experience is a central theme of the work. She relates her work to nature and architecture in her desire, through the paintings, to create a space for the viewer to contemplate." -Pegan Brooke website

"Palladini has considered canvas simply too passive, and has continued to employ wood and alternate materials almost exclusively as the ground for his paintings...The multiple figures which populate many of my[his] recent works share narratives that are compelling but not quite overt, encouraging the viewer to project their own stories and point of view into their interpretations." -Jeffrey Palladini website

"We are a collective of artists, civilians and change agents who believe that we can make this a better world. We use art to raise awareness of social issues and encourage self expression." -Good Trubble website