I am a loud person who makes quiet art. I savor the craft-like method of encaustic painting in a meditative exploration of landscape and emotion. Relating to my formal training as a metalsmith and working with my hands as a midwife, I love the physicality of wax, pigments, hand tools, and fire. I know my…
Layil Umbralux creates paintings and drawings as meditations that record the passage of time, the transformation of being, and the beauty of the natural world. She works primarily in oil paint, graphite, and gold leaf, preferring the multi-sensory experience and timelessness of analogue materials. She explores mythology, spirituality and the Natural Sciences in her work,…
Ned Axthelm holds an M.F.A. in Fine Art Painting from the Academy of Art University. His work has been exhibited in galleries and art spaces throughout California and around the country. He teaches at Richmond Art Center and San Quentin Prison Arts Project as well as private lessons. His artwork explores visual perception and contemporary…
My pottery begins with a hand-rolled slab from local red clay. I texture each slab with my one of a kind, designed stamps and rollers. After each slab is formed into a vessel, I decorate with underglazes, washes and glaze. All cone 6 pottery is lined with glaze and is food, dishwasher and microwave safe.…
Christopher Peterson has made a career and lifelong pursuit in the applied and fine arts. As an illustrator he created editorial art for the New York Times, Time magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and many others. He did advertising art for the likes of Pepsi, Google, Facebook, Reebok, Charles Schwab and Duracell. But he’s probably…
Mark Lightfoot attended the University of Michigan, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Design. He moved to the west coast that year to attend the University of Washington in Seattle, completing his Master of Fine Arts Degree. Mark has exhibited his work extensively in Michigan, Washington, British Columbia and California. His paintings, drawings,…
Surrealism and muralist
Julie Atkinson began painting after working as a lawyer for ten years. What began with an impromptu purchase of a set of watercolor paint quickly grew into a passion for exploring the human figure and emotions through the colors and texture of oil paint. Her art education comes from self-directed online courses as well as…
Susan Brooks: Drawing on Metal/ Building with Clay/ Painting my Thoughts I move freely between my mediums of non-traditional fine jewelry in sterling silver and gold, figurative layered paintings and drawings, and miniature ceramic and mixed media anthropomorphic sculpture called 1000 Objects of Desire and Mirth. I work mostly with the face and figure, decorative…
Katie Seifert is an American painter based in Oakland, CA. In her work, Seifert explores moments where we teeter on the edge of transformation. Often depicting evocative scenes drawn from her real life as a labor & birth doula as well as abstracted scenes of nature, she creates works that represent moments of intensity and…
I am a ceramic artist living in Oakland, California. I make quiet pots. I wish for lives to be enhanced by pieces that continue to reveal subtlety with ongoing use. Using functional ceramics reminds people to connect with their immediate experience through the tactile sensations of interacting with a handmade piece of art upon which…
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore is a photorealistic painter based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2015. Fillmore’s paintings are autobiographical metaphors. Having grown up with a family member that wrestled with mental illness, her work…
Painting is my passion and personal form of meditation. I aspire for my art to genuinely resonate with the viewer.
I have always loved painting abstract landscapes. With every layer of paint I spread across the canvas, I become more deeply involved with the colors, textures and movement of the imaginary space emerging before me. More recently, I’ve also fallen in love with figures! I marvel at how each mark I make creates a character,…
Judith T. Irwin is a contemporary artist that depicts the living world around her. In her paintings, we see images of various plants with the artist focusing on the plant’s shadow. The plants in these paintings are still projections of their shadow lasting only for a few minutes before becoming distorted by the earth’s rotation…
I enjoy this and I still find pieces that remind me why I do this.
Making beautiful art from broken pieces of glass is very compelling for me. The transformation from broken to beautiful inspires and moves me. Although I have done flat mosaics, making dimensional mosaic sculptures, primarily of imagined creatures, has formed my current work. The creatures are made from my welded skeletons, covered with concrete, then finished…
BIO: Dan McGarrah grew up in Pennsylvania. In 1978 he enrolled at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, graduating with a B.A. in 1981. Subsequently, he had a career in advertising photography. After retiring from that in 2017 McGarrah started pursuing the creation of Photo-Based abstract artworks. Then a 2020 Grand Mal Seizure has left…