Cover Artist Lynnette Diem

Cover Artist Lynnette Diem

Inside East Sac January 2022

Lynnette Diem, who has traveled throughout the world, expresses her experiences through painting. She has lived in South America, the Caribbean and South-East Asia, and is now settled in Sacramento.

Cover Artist Jill Estroff

Cover Artist Jill Estroff

Inside Land Park/Grid March 2022

Jill Estroff, who lives in Curtis Park, worked as marketing director for the Crocker Art Museum from 1986 to 1993, and is now the art curator for KVIE.

Cover Artist Judy Lew Loose

Cover Artist Judy Lew Loose

Inside East Sac March 2022

“This lupine watercolor painting is part of a series of California native plants,” says Judy Lew Loose, who was commissioned a few years ago by a hospital at Stanford to paint California native plants.

Journey To Heal

Journey To Heal

Anya Warda is a proud tree hugger.

“I love greenery, exercising, fresh air, sunshine, going outside and being with nature,” she says. “I’m a tree hugger. That’s who I am—that’s what my life experience has made me.”

Warda’s love of nature is more than aesthetic. She’s thankful to walk, much less hug a tree.

At age 26, the native of Poland was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disorder that attacks the joints and makes them painful and swollen. Determined not to be in a wheelchair, she took matters into her own hands.