Fontana Arts

Artist Margaret Stivers

Artwork from Top left to Right : Cut the Faded Lights  (Oil on Canvas), Cue the Faded Lights #2  (Oil on Canvas) 

Stivers’s background is in architecture and aviation.  She has a BA in design and Master of Architecture from Clemson University, Clemson S.C.  She brings to the canvas a fusion of her life’s experiences.

The three paintings presented here are from a twelve-piece series called “Cue the Faded Lights.”  This series developed from a visit to the Neon Boneyard, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  It is a lot surrounded by a chain link fence.  As neon signs are taken down and replaced in Las Vegas, they find a home in this yard.  There they wait to be preserved.  In their faded state they still emit a glory from a by gone era.

For more information please visit her web page at www.Margaret Stivers.com

Artist Tya Ates

Artwork from Top left to Right : Quilt Friend (Acrylic on Canvas), Distributor     (Acrylic, Modeling Clay, Wood, Distributor Cap) ,Triptych1 (Acrylic, Modeling Clay, Wood),

Tya Ates is a painter based in Northern California. She works primarily with acrylics and watercolors, but has recently been exploring making three-dimensional pieces by sculpting and painting clay. She is drawn towards surrealism and likes blurring the boundaries between people, animals, objects and places. Some of her favorite artists are Remedios Varo, Zsalto, and her dad. For more art see: https://society6.com/otterfox.

Artist Kameko Madere

Artwork from Top Left to Right ( Grace- Watercolor, Essence- Watercolor, Adjustments- Watercolor)

Kameko Madere is a native of the city of Los Angeles, born in the 1970”s with family roots from Louisiana. She paints the human figure using gender, culture, and spirituality to narrate stories, exude mood, and capture feeling in her work. Beyond the paints, Kameko supports global missions projects bettering the lives of women and children. Kameko has been invited to speak, host workshops and exhibit art in her local community. Today she resides in the city of Fontana, California with her husband and their three children.  

Artist Jerry Owens

Artwork from Top Left to Right (Tree Line-Watercolor, Mountain Trail-Oil, Autumn Road Home- Oil)

Being creative with a brush has always fascinated me and I would say it doesn’t come naturally.   Having to struggle to bring an image I have in my mind to fruition is the joy of painting.   The idea that this image has never been done before gives one a real sense of accomplishment.

I’ve been fortunate to have spent much time during my lifetime amongst and around other artists and you always learn and appreciate others points of view and techniques.

Artist Sarah Berndt

Artwork from Top to Bottom: Meeting by the Mushroom, Dryad

Sarah was born in the Czech Republic and raised in California. She loves art, as well as writing and the creation of video games. She is  currently attending the Laguna College of Art and Design for a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Game Art.  

Artist Ernie Marjorian

Artwork from Top Left to Right: Duet (Oil on Canvas), Burger and Fries (Oil on Canvas) , Florence (Oil on Canvas).

Artist Sarah O’Conner

Artwork from Top to Bottom ( Lemon -Watercolor, prisma-color pencil, & gouache, Tomato-Watercolor, prisma-color pencil, & gouache)

Sarah O’Connor is an illustrator currently working in Southern Orange County.  She was born and raised in a small town in New Hampshire.  She has been living in Orange County for the past 10 years.  She attended Laguna College of Art and Design and received a BFA in Illustration.  Sarah has a love for watercolor, ink, prisma-colored pencil, and gouache.  Her strengths and loves are culinary illustrations, landscapes, plien-air painting, portraiture and rendering.

Her main source of inspiration is nature, food, movies, “art of” books, graphic novels, family and friends.  Throughout each of those little things she is able to draw inspiration and form ideas.  Movies and graphic novels are a big part of her life and what gives her new ideas.