Project Type: Artist

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…

Erin J. Martinelli, is a Northern California artist who finds her inspiration in animals, nature, abstract, and architecture genres to create brilliant acrylics, etching prints, and scratchart. Erin J. Martinelli trained at the very early age of seven years old at The Casements in Ormond Beach, FL, the former winter home of John D. Rockefeller.…

I consider myself a sculptor/ceramic artist.  My recent work is more autobiographical in nature, where I use characteristics, symbols, and emotions of the woman/ wife/ mother expressing her role in the world. I feel my experience as a mother of two boys and my years of marriage provides me with lots of material which I draw…