Sonoma Valley Art Gallery, Fairmont Gallery The Fairmont Gallery offers exhibits of personal fine art to gently introduce a variety of expressions and techniques to the viewer. We hope to touch your heart as well as your mind. We invite you to be participants in the fine art experience! Come visit our location on the Sonoma Plaza.
The Fairmont Gallery     447 First Street West.    Sonoma, CA 95476    707 996-2667

 

 

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Welcome to the Fairmont Gallery, a wine country art experience on the historic Sonoma Plaza featuring the fine art of nationally respected artists painting the wine country with oil, watercolor, and pastel.

The Fairmont Gallery offers exhibits of personal fine art to gently introduce a variety of expressions and techniques to the viewer. We hope to touch your heart as well as your mind. We invite you to be participants in the fine art experience! Come visit our location on the Sonoma Plaza.



Featured Gallery Artists:

Manette Fairmont nws - Watercolor, Oil
Gallery Owner and National Award Winning Artist. My selection of subject matter is inspired by landscape shapes distinctive to the Sonoma Valley: natural objects such as weathered old oaks, unique rock formations, or man made vineyard patterns. I paint quite... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Jim McVicker - Oil
Still life and landscape painter, James McVicker creates compositions that reflect 19th and 20th century traditions. His dramatically lit studio still lifes recall orientalist motifs (blooming flowers in antique vases set against richly colored Turkish carpets), and are ... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Michael Obermeyer - Oil
As an illustrator, I've always created art to fit other's needs. Painting, however, offers me the opportunity to create for myself to allow others to see how I perceive life around me, and to totally escape from the real world for a while. I enjoy painting outdoors and working quickly. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Douglas Morgan - Oil
Still life, landscape or interior scene, the dramatic use of color, shadow and form as well as different perspectives immortalize that image. Having traveled widely experiencing the richness of other cultures, and living abroad for over thirty years, the brush and canvas have become my personal method... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Karen Frazee - Oil
During my life of observing the world- the beauty of its structure, the interrelatedness of all its parts, and the sheer artistry of how it is made, I am convinced that my Creator loves me. What I have seen is a personal message of that Love and Interest, just as the picture books I saw as a young child ... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Caroline Zimmermann - Oil
Caroline began painting in oils at the age of six, nurtured by creative parents and the artistically rich setting of Laguna Beach. Her years of experience culminate in paintings produced by a labor-intensive technique that involves numerous coats of sizing onto linen and the application of many layers of alkyd-resin glazes. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Sally Rosenbaum -Oil
Contemporary California impressionist paintings bring to life the sun-washed peace of a garden in spring; a place where the subjects seem to have all the time in the world to soak up the sun, arrange flowers, share poetry, write love letters, chat with a child, or simply enjoy solitude. She is a resident of northern California and paints in ... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Carolyn Lord - Watercolor
Watercolor has been Carolyn Lord's main media for 25 years. Her painting approaches have evolved to include a loose brushy style, wet-into-wet, carefully fitted abstract shapes with small shapes and large sculpted forms. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Stock Schlueter - Oil
(b. 1949) is a native California painter who has dedicated his painting career to the Northern California landscape. Schlueter paints the vineyards, valleys, farms, et al. of California in a delicate manner, keenly observing minute details and producing magnificent medium to ... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Francine Hurd - Pastel
Her work has the freshness and the impressionism of a true plein air artist. She has received many regional awards in pastel competitions and several national awards in the Pastel Society of the West Coast competitions. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Tom Soltesz - Oil
A native of Pennsylvania, has been a working artist since 1972 when he began as a billboard artist in Florida. After attending the Colorado Institute of Art, he became a commercial artist producing designs and illustrations for numerous clients. While a commercial artist he constantly ... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Sally Cataldo Nws - Watercolor
She has had her work published in a book called "Basic Watercolor Answer Book" and an article in the American Artist:Watercolor Magazine. Her work has received numerous awards in various art exhibits. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Dick Cole - Watercolor
Is an illustrator / watercolorist with over 30 years experience in the field. A graduate of U.C.L.A. and the Art Center College of Design, he has worked as a graphic designer, art director, and illustrator in New York, Palo Alto, CA and San Francisco. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

John Poon - Oil
Encouraged by the wealth of landscape and artistic interpretation in the Bay Area, and with such early experiences as Van Gogh's exhibition at De Young Museum in San Francisco; John Poon’s appreciation of fine art emerged at an early age. A childhood full of drawing and painting foreshadowed an artistic future. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Gary Blackwell - Oil and Pastel
Gary Has been drawing and painting most of his adult life. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. After serving his required stint in the army, he served as an illustrator. He then finally settled into living in California to start his art career. He first worked in advertising for 23 years as a Creative... Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

Laura Griffith - Oil
The orchard proved to be a source of inspiration. She found the fruit itself, with its intricate shadow, reflection and light, to be the essence of her vision. The pears, apples and persimmons from her orchard had personality, and Laura focused on drawing out their elegance and drama. Click here to learn More and to see paintings online.

 
Manette Fairmont


 

Wine Country Plein Air
Invitational Exhibition


Coming September 18th, 2010 at the Fairmont Gallery.
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Best of Show
National Award Winner '07

California Watercolor Association

Manette Fairmont!
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