I am a life long Berkeley resident and graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts. This watercolor series is an expression of love for our rapidly changing home. My hope is that these paintings will help others to connect emotionally with their memories of the East Bay, as well as act as visual…
David Miller
I was born in San Francisco, and grew up running around in the hills of Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Most of my life has been spent in the Greater Bay Area. My paintings and drawings express my deep connection to this beautiful land, and my fascination with the play of light and weather across the…
Guillermo Navarrete Davis
I am a self-taught painter born and raised in Santiago de Chile, and have lived in the Bay Area since 1998. I am an admirer of Dalí, Gustav Klimt and the great Impressionists, but dedicate my talent to a more realistic style, meticulously working in fine details. I use an ancient technique of mixing colors…
Vivien Partridge
CREATING IS A CONSTANT INVITATION TO FIND OUT WHO I AM My current painting feels like a return to what in the visual world resonates with my inner world. Always a landscape painter, where life drawing, urban environments and architecture are included, presently I am most inspired by the poetic landscapes of high desert. Dramatic…
Michelle Hou
In my work, I seek to capture the essence of a single moment. I like to provoke emotions, to compel my viewer to see the inner workings of their own consciousness and invite them to consider the emotions they find, within my work. My paintings reflect my desire to engage in an emotional exchange with…
Kierra Shadé Stanley
BIO Kierra Shadé is an Oakland-based artist who creates energetic, vibrant abstract work that sparks imagination and evokes personal emotional experiences. Born in South Carolina, 1991, as a bi-racial woman, many of her paintings explore contrast, transformative moments, reclamation of self and power, and expressions of the feminine. While masterfully using color, fluid form and…
Sara Divya
I consider myself a “quiet” activist advocating for artistic community building and preservation of wildlife and ecosystems. For decades, my oil paintings celebrated spirituality through science and nature. From the microcosm to the macrocosm, I continue to explore patterns and selected cherished motifs from the finite to the infinite. I rearrange and revisit a cherished…
Linda Dittes
Born in Maryland/Washington, D.C. I grew up loving to draw – mostly horses. In my 20s I attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and earned a BFA in painting. Linda has participated in juried shows, galleries and group shows in Northern California over the last eight years. With such a great…
Julie Cohn
I’m excited to tell you about two series I’m working on. One is about the landscapes that emerge out of my subconscious with the flow of watercolor. My reverence for landscapes blossoms onto paper in a spontaneous way, and I work on small and large scale pieces that I call Spontaneous Landscapes. I am also…
Salma Arastu
As a woman, artist, and mother, I work to create harmony by expressing the universality of humanity through paintings, sculpture, and calligraphy. At birth, I was given the life-defining challenge of a left hand without fingers. Seeing the unity of an all-encompassing God, I was able to transcend the barriers often set-forth in the traditions…
Paquerette
My first memories are of painting watercolor on Bayou Dularge. Louisiana provided a rich backdrop of artists expressing themselves and I was steeped in its magic melting pot. I ventured to California for art school (C.C.A.) and was seduced by the freedom to explore my art and myself. I am Art. I come from Art.…
Art by Nayer
I love playing with color and imagination. I create in a variety of art forms including abstract acrylic paintings, watercolor spirit animals, clay jewelry, interior designs and murals, fabric arts, and handmade greeting cards. All my art is inspired by my love of and deep connection with nature and has a fun, playful, and vibrant…
Karen Kramer
Every day I am inspired by observing the natural world, whether it is the intricacy of a leafy branch, the texture and lines of a mountain rock, or a bold color in the sky. I see endless contradictions within the same landscape: light/dark; arid/wet; sharp/soft; living/dying. I feel compelled to examine this harmonious paradox in…
Trina Anderson
I’m a painter and printmaker based in Oakland, California, where I’ve made my home for more than three decades. However, my roots trace back to an early age where I grew up on the shores of a Minnesota lake. This blend of urban life and a deep connection to nature shapes my artistic journey and…
Judith T. Irwin
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…
Carol Jenkins
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,…
Bron Wynn Kalis
Painting is my passion and personal form of meditation. I aspire for my art to genuinely resonate with the viewer.
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore
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…