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Susanne has had the creative urge as long as she can remember – drawing, painting, and sewing her own clothes since childhood. She credits her mother, who also loved to paint, and Mrs. Lund, her high school art teacher, as her earliest influences.  The first art workshop she attended was together with her late mother,…

For as long as she can remember, Stacy Maeda has always nurtured a passion for bothart and animals. While she takes great pains to ensure that her detailed drawings andpaintings of animals are anatomically accurate, Stacy is adamant that her artwork also captures the animals’ individual spirit and personality. More recently, her body of work…

Robert Thompson is a twenty year veteran of the United States Navy with a BFA in painting from the Academy of Art University. Robert’s process is often an optimistic attempt at forging harmony from what begins as discord and chaos. Working primarily with oil paints he utilizes a variety of substrates to include paper, wood,…

Mary Sorrels began her work as a tile setter and later graphic designer in San Diego in the late 1980’s. Since that time, she has enjoyed exploring a number of mediums, including paint, wood, metal, stained and fused glass. Mary’s has used her talents to support a number of non-profit organizations, supporting youth and families…

Margaret is a local artist currently living in Galt, CA. Her love for art started as a young child where she won awards starting in elementary school for her pencil sketches of the great Live Oaks trees. Her first award came at the age of eight when one of her sketches was published in the…

I have been drawing, and painting since the age of two.  I loved drawing, and throughout grade school, and high school I took classes in painting, photography, woodworking, and welding.  I went to Humboldt State to pursue a degree in Fine Arts.  Over the past 20 years I have taken sculpture classes from Stephen Kautenbach,…

Judy Thompson-Ng is a self-taught artist whose painting adventure started in oils while in upstate New York and then transitioned to watercolor.  The fluidity of the watercolor paint became her medium of choice.  She has painted still life, landscapes, and portraits.  As a member of the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild in Tucson Arizona and a…

After retiring from the teaching profession in 2010, I began sculpting in clay and then studied for three years with internationally known ceramic artist Yoshio Taylor.  I have shown my art at the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts (CCACA) in Davis for the last seven years, at the KVIE Art Auction, at…

Jan Rau is primarily a watercolor artist living in Elk Grove, California. In addition she has done oils and pastels, has studied art at California State University, Sacramento, Cosumnes River College, the School of Light and Color, Fair Oaks, Lincoln City Art Gallery, Oregon and privately with artists such as David Lobenberg, David Peterson, Dick…

What I like the most about being an artist is to have a vision and be able to execute it so that when someone sees my piece they are able to share my vision. I love it when people feel an emotional connection when they look at my art. I find working with fused glass…