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We’re excited to showcase original art from some of California’s most inspired artists. All artwork on display at our stores is for sale directly by the artists. Explore our wide array of art, and find your next masterpiece.

Deborah Hobbs

Deborah Hobbs is a lifelong, passionate, California based artist now in Los Alamos,CA. She is an experienced craftsperson with over 35 years of experience in creating stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces. Her main areas of expertise revolve around oil painting, jewelry making, basket weaving, as well as furniture.

Deborah Hobbs
Alfredo Gonzalez

Alfredo Gonzalez

Alfredo Gonzalez conveys disrupted realism while exploring the human experience and emotion. Gonzalez uses the face, human figure, and his unique painting style to capture portraits of life-altering experiences through quiet moments.

Chris Granillo

Chris is a California-based fine artist and printmaker with murals, paintings on canvas, and relief prints displayed publicly and in galleries. His desert upbringing has inspired him to build a body of work based on the use of bold palettes of brilliant colors to give his pieces deep contrasts, movement, and depth.

Through the use of these colors and contrasts, he aims to interrogate assumptions of dualities. Juxtaposing the built and natural worlds, overlapping the past with the present, and inverting the role of shadows and light aim to invoke reflection on one’s relationship to nature and to folkloric mythologies.
A Californian artist of Mexican descent, Chris draws great inspiration from Mexican folkloric traditions depicting hummingbirds, native plants, and cultural traditions as a means to link modern day imagery to the past.

Chris Granillo
Sophia Paris

Sophia Paris

Sophia Paris is a Los Angeles-based Iranian artist. Her fine art often focuses on her heritage and lifestyle. As an artist, Sophia’s inspiration springs from a variety of ideas and places. Her paintings mix the traditional with contemporary flair.

Calligraphy, poetry, and architecture take primary focus on Sophia’s traditionally inspired art. Many of her works use Iranian script to share selected words from Rumi. She also explores place by creating fantasy perspectives based on designs from locations in Iran.

In her contemporary works, Sophia explores wonder and femininity. She uses everyday objects, such as pinwheels and lipstick, to explore pop sensibilities and American idioms.

Sophia’s artwork is available directly from the artist’s studio, on Saatchi.com, and at Artlounge Collective. More works will appear at the Art Expo New York, April 2024.

Karen Eccleston

Karen Eccleston is very much inspired by the old masters, Van Gogh, Manet, and also Georgia O’Keefe.

Growing up in Southern California and visiting Hawaii, Karen enjoys painting Coastal landscapes, tropical Florals, and Ocean Scenery. She works primarily with acrylic and oil. Karen has sold many pieces to physicians and hospitals, and also private clients.

Karen Eccleston
Ashley Wright

Ashley Wright

Ashley Wright paints highly vibrant, textured, eye-catching landscapes and illustrations. Since becoming a full-time artist, Wright has sold her work internationally, and exhibits throughout Southern California. Her paintings focus on perception and reality in relation to Derealization, Dissociation, and Maladaptive Daydreaming – all things Wright struggles with. She hopes that her paintings help bring awareness to C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the beauty that comes from it. The world’s that Wright creates come directly from her inner world that has protected her when struggling with Dissociation. All of Wright’s paintings take visual inspiration from locations around Southern California, nostalgia from Sci-Fi, and the vibrant designs of the 80s/90s. The combination of nostalgia and dissociation allow for Ashley’s paintings to take on a dream-like state and envelop viewers to wonder about each texture, brushstroke, and color palette. Dreamscapes allow for viewers to feel a sense of familiarity, hope, discomfort, and unknown, just as someone who struggles with dissociation may emotionally and physically experience.

Susan C. Price

Influenced by her favorite artists and teachers: Picasso, Bonnard, Schiele, De Kooning, and Joseph Blaustein, David Valentine, Susan C. Price focuses on changing and turning objects, figures into complex color fields. She approaches each painting with what she calls “creative destruction”, trying new things until she’s satisfied.

Susan C. Price
Christopher Wray-McCann

Christopher Wray-McCann

Christopher Wray-McCann was born in Detroit and attended high school at The Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan. It was there at the age of 16 that he began studying photography. After graduating, he went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to continue studying photography, majoring in photojournalism. In the early years of his career, Christopher did a great deal of work within the music industry photographing many album covers, making music videos, and spending months at a time imbedded with numerous bands photographing their lives as they toured the world. At the same time, the commercial aspect of his practice continued to grow in the realm of photojournalism for magazines such as Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Popular Mechanics, Esquire and GQ. As well as working for magazines, Christopher shoots commercial advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. A brief list is as follows:

Apple | AT&T | Budweiser | Caterpillar | Ford | JetBlue | Levi’s | Marlboro | Miller I Nokia | Oakley | Rayban | Seagram’s | Sony

Christopher has done a number of pro-bono campaigns, including one for Doctor's Without Borders. Christopher has won several awards for his advertising work including an Addy in 2002. A collection of his rock and roll photographs titled “Midnight Miles” was published by Simon and Schuster in
2006.

Presently Christopher lives in Hollywood, CA.

Ziva Barrett

Ziva Barrett strives to explore the enigmatic and mysterious realms of the subconscious mind . As a surrealist artist, she is fascinated by the uncanny, the dreamlike, and the inexplicable aspects of human existence. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of sources, including literature, mythology, psychology, and personal experiences, she constructs visual narratives that evoke a sense of intrigue, inviting viewers to interpret and engage with their own subconscious landscapes.

While her work is deeply rooted in the tradition of surrealism, she also draw inspiration from contemporary issues and social dynamics. By addressing themes of identity, power dynamics, and the complexities of the human condition, she aims to provoke a dialogue that transcends the confines of the visual realm. Through her art, she seeks to engage viewers in a thought-provoking journey, encouraging them to reflect upon their own experiences and beliefs.

Ziva Barrett
DOT95

Nicholas Murillo, creator of DOT95, is a local Los Angeles artist. His signature lips and teeth have gotten him in and out of trouble since grade school to present day. For the last four years, Nicholas has been using alcohol markers and his iPad as his main muse, as well as his paint pieces that he does on leather products and canvas. Although his characters have similarities, each one is a different expression of how he felt that day.

Michael Hartstein

Michael Hartstein is inspired by the movement of nature into our everyday lives. His paintings reflect some aspects of nature. Michael paints in an impressionistic style, using bold colors and textures to bring excitement and passion to my paintings. His goal while painting is to stimulate awareness of how nature enriches our lives.

Michael Hartstein
Matt Markum

Matt Markum

Matt Markum is a surrealist painter living in Los Angeles, CA. His works are predominantly made using either acrylic or oil paints and generally feature a lot of texture and dream-like imagery. His paintings often depict everyday, common-place elements presented in a strange, exaggerated manner.

Simone Krug

Simone’s paintings are an invitation to step into a world where spontaneity, intuition, and daring exploration reign supreme. With each stroke, color, and revealed layer, she shares a unique glimpse into a kinetic artistic journey that captivates the viewer’s imagination.

Simone Krug
Cris Fernandez

Cris Fernandez

Cris Fernandez is an artist originally from sunny Southern California, where he draws inspiration for his unique artistic style. Describing his work as a blend of Pop, Surrealistic, and Low Brow, Cris has always been captivated by the world of horror movies, fantasy, and all things related to popular culture. It is these diverse influences that have greatly shaped his artwork, allowing him to express the intricacies of his vivid imagination. Through his vibrant use of colors, Cris aims to transport viewers into a realm of fantasy, while simultaneously incorporating sinister undertones influenced by his love for horror movies. The remarkable transformation of his childhood fears into positive and inspiring visual representations is a testament to his artistic vision. In each brushstroke, Cris strives to unravel the wild and extraordinary things that reside within the depths of his creative mind.

Nora Cabiale

Nora was born and raised in Rosario, Argentina (1962) and studied fine arts throughout secondary school and university.

She obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Visual Arts, in 2002 she relocated to California, where she now resides permanently and makes a living as a muralist, painter and ceramicist.

Her paintings depict her memories of Argentina, its music, people and architecture, using her love of color with a loose, painterly style using the palette knife.

Nora Cabiale
Liliana D’Ambrosio

Liliana D’Ambrosio

Liliana D’Ambrosio was born in 1951 in Irpinia, Italy. During early her adolescence, she developed a passion for painting which would extend throughout her life. Inspired by her passion for art, she went on to study at the Art School of Avellino.

For a long period extending from the late 1980’s to the early years of the 2000’s, she drew on paper with rapidity and acrylic colors worked into her paper using dry and slightly diluted brushes. During this period she experimented with different mediums, though she continued to create masterpieces using acrylic paint. Liliana’s work began to provoke emotions with the use of diverse colors and linear shapes.

In 2018, after a prolonged absence from the art world due to illness, she decided to return to the United States to expand her influence in the world of American Art.

Marie Lavallee

Marie has always been an artist at heart, captivated by the world of colors and shapes. During her High School years in Quebec City, Canada, she found ways to indulge her passion for painting. Attending the Sylvia Araya Painting Academy at night, she honed her skills and learned to see beyond mere aesthetics. It was her pursuit of a career that took her away from her beloved hometown. Marie set her sights on Toronto, Canada and enrolled at George Brown College and graduated with a Goldsmith degree. After a career in the Jewelry industry spanning from Toronto to Boston to Southern California, she resurrected her paint brushes and poured her talent, time and energy into her artwork. It was then that metal became a crucial element in her creative expression, evident through her skillful use of gold or copper leafing and the incorporation of metal objects in mixed media creations.Today, Marie is a respected member of the esteemed Quorum Gallery in the artistic haven of Laguna Beach, California. She actively participates in prestigious juried art shows, showcasing her extraordinary talent to discerning audiences at events like the Beverly Hills Art Show, La Jolla Art and Wine Festival, Art Walk Liberty Station, and many more.

Marie’s journey as an artist is a testament to her unwavering passion and dedication. As she continues to pursue her artistic endeavors, she creates a rich tapestry of visual delight that captivates and inspires all who encounter her work.

Marie Lavallee
Catherine Dickson

Catherine Dickson have shown her work in Seattle and Los Angeles for the past 20 years. After attending Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she grew up, she then went on to attend Arizona State University with a double degree: a BA in Art History and a BFA in Digital Photography. She has shown many works, many times at Santa Monica Art Studios, Hanger Gallery, and the Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery. Dickson ebbs and flows between various mediums, having a mastery of each technique while keeping a consistent sensibility of mood and tone.

Kevin McCants

Kevin L. McCants (1966 – Current) African American Painter, Teacher, Musician. Kevin’s artistic practice began at an early age when he started drawing at six years old. Following his childhood in Ohio, he studied fashion illustration and commercial art at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Johannes Vermeer, Alan Beeton, Man Ray, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and Thomas Gainsborough are a few historic artists who have used mannequins to express their artistry and creative view of their world. Expressions that tell a story, capture a mood or simply sell an idea. Kevin uses mannequins to represent the faceless appearance of human desire, need, and social disconnect without the baggage of specific human personality.

Kevin McCants
Dave Emmett

Dave Emmett

Dave Emmett is punk-science-fiction artist who uses fluid pour-painting techniques to create nebulae, wormholes, planetscapes, and all things alien on canvas. He aims for vibes that are loud, vibrant, disruptive, and alive. A left-brained Doctor by day, he’s drawn to the ways in which fluid art defies efforts at pre-planning. Each painting forms dynamically, one tilt or spin at a time.

Arlene Weinstock

Arlene Weinstock earned a BFA degree from Boston University. She continued her education at the Corcoran Museum School where she studied website development. She earned a Signature (CPSA), Experimental Signature (CPX), and Five Year Merit recognition for her artwork from the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA).

Weinstock’s “Recyclables” is about finding beauty in materials others discard. She creates paper from shredded office documents. As she builds the paper with layers of wet pulp, she sculpts the surface. When dry, she paints intense colors to enhance the forms and textures. Working in conversation with the art, she follows the lead of what emerges. She looks for ideas in the lights and shadows. Weinstock often feels an idea and helps these phantoms take form. The process of creating art is giving life to ideas. Recycling paper is renewal.

This colorful abstract art series uplifts the spirit. It speaks to the intention of second chances. Through it, she sees possibilities.

Arlene Weinstock
Kathryn Pitt

Kathryn Pitt

Kathryn Pitt is a UK born artist that now lives and works in Los Angeles. A figurative and non representational 2D artist, Kathryn has been involved with and featured in many exhibitions in California, throughout the US and overseas, whilst teaching art to children within her studio and as a docent at the Getty Museum.

Kathryn has had three solo shows over the past seven years, the last in 2020 at Brittany Davis Gallery in Ojai, has curated several shows and has an honorable mention for her painting ‘Red View’ at the juried show ‘Bold Expressions’ at Northern California Arts, Sacramento.

TSmitty2001 (Tim Smith)

The fleeting moments, the perfect shot, the one with the magic light and shadows. All of them are their own piece of time Tim Smith tries to preserve in the time machine of the camera’s eye. In that instant, there’s nothing but breath and the stillness of the moment. Tim has been fortunate enough to have been exhibited in galleries all over the world, and he hopes to find himself fortunate enough to be featured in your home.

TSmitty2001 (Tim Smith)
Miss Brightside

Miss Brightside

Miss Brightside is an accomplished Los Angeles-based artist and designer. Miss Brightside’s works explore mark-making and subversive subjects, often applied in functional pieces such as clothing, wallpaper, and other design elements for the home. Miss Brightside holds an MFA from Central Saint Martin (CSM), London.

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