Cover Artist Michelle Ngo
Inside Pocket February 2023
Michelle Ngo is a Sacramento oil painter and illustrator. Her work invites viewers to admire the dynamic forms of botanical and glass still life, and the charming vignettes of everyday life.
Cover Artist Elaine Bowers
Inside Land Park/Grid February 2023
Elaine Bowers’ art features realistic watercolors in both aerial and traditional landscape views of the Sacramento Delta and North Valley.
Cover Artist Miles Hermann
Inside East Sac February 2023
“I paint with a sense of urgency and immediacy. Getting whatever it is I feel needs to be expressed on the canvas and in this consistent daily discipline creating what I believe to be some of the best work of my career,”
Cover Artist Jim Marxen
Inside Arden February 2023
Bright, colorful and full of conviction that humans must live in a sustainable manner within the environment, Jim Marxen’s art conveys optimism while underscoring the need to ensure all people have the opportunity to experience the beauty in the world.
Media Mixologist
When you visit mixed media artist Linda Paris’ website or East Sacramento home studio, you’ll find a treasure trove of work, from collages and paintings to dioramas of found objects. What you won’t find is the artist’s biography.
“My philosophy is I like people to interact with the work. I don’t want a provenance or bio to interfere with that,” Paris says. “It’s the piece that we’re selling, not me.”
Interacting with Paris’ work is like jumping down the rabbit hole into another world.
