Our Artists

GinaC.

Artist

Los Angeles artist Gina C has been creating and painting since early childhood. Self-taught, she blends the colors from her dreams with life experience and emotion to transform the “paintings inside her head” into vivid outer expression. Painting primarily with acrylics on canvas, she also works in mixed mediums including oils, pastels, charcoal and spray paint.

Erica Strauss

Stained Glass Artist

Erica Straus creates delightfully expressive works of stained glass art. Whether her pieces lean towards being realistic or whimsical, they connect deeply with the beauty of the natural world. Her background in Zoology, Entomology and Botany drive her expression, bringing forth imagery with depth and clarity.

Michael Manente

Artist/Painer

Mr. Manente was raised in Cleveland Ohio and earned his BFA at Ohio University. He remained in Cleveland for several years after graduation, teaching art in the Cleveland Public School System while working on his MA at Kent State University and exhibiting locally in group shows at the prestigious Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute in Youngstown Ohio.

Andrew Petrov

Oil Painter

After a number of years experimenting with painting only with his hands, Andrew picked up brushes again to return to pure painting. Experiments, he thought, are vital to the growth of an artist, but nothing replaces the joy experienced by cutting loose with a brush in hand and subject in view.

Janice Byer

Artist

Janice Byer is an award-winning fine artist and successful book illustrator who masters in watercolor and oil. “My oils are classically driven and watercolors expressive. My favorite tool is a pencil.”.
She began oil painting at age 8, continued through high school, studied at Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT and Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT. After receiving a scholarship and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA she remained in California to pursue her Art career.

Valerie Quade

Stained Glass Artist

In 2018, Valerie began attending stained glass classes at The Stained Glass Garden in Berkeley as an outlet to her busy real estate business. She quickly fell in love with the process and began making glass art. Valerie welcomes you to her gallery by sharing the beauty of stained glass and other art forms. Come visit and watch her own works evolve.