Cover Artist Ruth Holton-Hodson

Cover Artist Ruth Holton-Hodson

Inside Arden December 2021

Ruth Holton-Hodson is a retired health and consumer policy advocate and artist. She loves the challenge of capturing light in her vibrant watercolor still lifes and pastel landscapes.

Cover Artist Timothy Mulligan

Cover Artist Timothy Mulligan

Inside Pocket November 2021

Timothy Mulligan’s paintings are passionate experiments of color, light and form. By combining linear compositions with bold colors and expressive paint styles, he blends reality with abstraction, finding inspiration from locations throughout California.

Cover Artist Deladier Almeida

Cover Artist Deladier Almeida

Inside Land Park/Grid November 2021

Born in Brazil, Almeida has lived in California since the mid-1980s, earning his degree from UC Davis. He is renowned for his expansive aerial landscapes and masterful compositions that turn everyday moments of rural California into mesmerizing passages of color and shape.

Cover Artist Jill Estroff

Cover Artist Jill Estroff

Inside Arden November 2021

This artwork by Jill Estroff is featured in the Art Fur Paws online auction to benefit the Sacramento SPCA. Estroff, who lives in Curtis Park, worked as marketing director for the Crocker Art Museum from 1986 to 1993. She strives to capture the essence of a scene in a loose, abstract style, and admires the vivid color and bold brushwork of expressionist painters.

Cover Artist Heather Hogan

Cover Artist Heather Hogan

Inside East Sac November 2021

Heather Hogan’s current series is on women’s struggles to have it all and hold it all together—a balance between caring for loved ones and pursuing careers and passions.

Cover Artist Francesca Schomberg

Cover Artist Francesca Schomberg

Inside Pocket October 2021

Francesca Schomburg is a Pocket resident, and former schoolteacher and arts educator who for many years developed arts curricula.