Arts & crafts booth Nelson De La Nuez mixed media Pamela Bliss handmade greeting card Dolly Cahill Johnson mixed media Nancy Gano cross sculpture Dennis Barloga photography Stephen Osborn painting Jacqueline Osborn painting Tom Marlatt painting Pep Ventosa photography

A lone bike on a cobblestone street, rustic farmhouses, emerald green fields with wooly sheep — San Leandro photographer Dennis Barloga has traveled the world for inspiration. Choose from snippets of daily life in Italy, Ireland, Scotland, France, England and the Netherlands. Get lost in a café street scene, narrow alleyway or English garden filled with chipped terracotta pots and hydrangeas. Atherton husband and wife duo Stephen and Jacqueline Osborn are sure to dazzle the crowd with their beautiful fine art paintings. Jacqueline, a former illustrator for Sunset Magazine, says her figurative paintings “represent the glimmer of moments in our past that are just out of reach; elusive moments that reflect a diversity of situations and human emotions.” Stephen is a watercolorist who “flat out loves to paint.” He is amazed by the depth of watercolor as a medium and his clients have included Apple Computer, Visa, Hewlett Packard, IBM, PG&E and Sunset Publishing. Los Gatos oil painter Tom Marlatt uses brushes and a palette knife to stack layers of color. Swirls of fiery crimson and gold, cobalt blue and deep purple dance across Marlatt’s vivid canvases. The abstract artist’s goal is to create a push-pull feeling of movement, allowing the viewer to fall into the painting. Marlatt’s art hangs in just about every state in Northern America. Moss Beach photographer Pep Ventosa shoots his subjects in fragments — up to 100 overlapping puzzle pieces — and then digitally reconstructs the images. “What grows is a unique, new narrative space that never actually happened,” the Barcelona native noted. “Part memory, part imagination. Not unlike the way we see.”

Marsha Anderson platter Aileen Cain glass bowl Kurt McCracken vase Ken Rhoads birdhouse Kerry Manning cruise hats Angie and Jack Popovich shirts Suzi Thomas handpainted hat and bag Marion Hunziker-Larsen fiber jewelry Julie Anna Whomsley clothing

Looking for an extra special gift? Martinez resident Marsha Anderson makes gorgeous plates, platters and bowls with whimsical messages. Computer images are covered with layers of watercolor and acrylic paint. Each piece is sealed with enamel. Andrea and Brooks Austin of Hang Five Woodwork make wonderful bread slicers (check out the sourdough saw), crumb boards, salad servers and wooden bowls in modern shapes. These are not your mother’s cutting boards! The Occidental residents use quality hardwood with a clear finish. Aileen Cain of Moss Beach makes functional warm glass bowls, vases, platters and jars. The warm glass process consists of two kiln firings — the first to fuse layers of stacked glass and the second to create shapes. A watercolorist and ceramicist, Cain loves warm glass because the colors are similar to watercolor and the shapes remind her of ceramics. The artist prefers rich reds, warm ambers and sharp black and white patterns. Clayton artist Kurt McCracken uses one large piece of clay to wheel throw his artistic creations. Each piece is fired using the raku or low-fired process. His unusually tall urns and vases make a dramatic statement to a front porch, hallway or foyer. Perk up your garden with rustic birdhouse, feeder or landscape art by Redwood City resident Ken Rhoads. The artist turns trash into treasure by recycling fencing and siding materials. An avid handyman, Rhoads has turned his passion for home projects into career in art.

Sun protection can be very stylish if you’re wearing a beautiful hat by Kerry Manning. The El Dorado Hills resident’s need for serious skin cancer protection came in 2004 after a scary battle with stage four throat cancer. Radiation treatment caused the equivalent of 25 years of sun damage. Manning’s doctors told her she would very likely develop skin cancer within 10 years. After shopping for the ideal hat with no luck, Manning sewed her first cruise hat from pretty Tommy Bahama home décor fabric. She prefers home décor fabrics because they are stain resistant and extremely durable.

A basic Hawaiian shirt paired with khaki shorts is a common warm-weather uniform for men of all ages at summer barbecues. Angie and Jack Popovich of Mokelumne Hill have taken the classic favorite and added a twist — shirts with themes such as hot rods, gone surfin’, pirates, cosmos, Phil’s Drive-in, Wild West, bike babes and sushi chefs. Aloha! As a little girl, Sacramento artist Suzi Thomas sat at her mother’s feet, handing her balls of colored yarn to crochet into blanket squares. Today, Thomas has swapped yarn for colorful paints. Her beautiful hand-painted umbrellas, hats and bags make wonderful gifts. Designs include flowers, vineyards, dragonflies and our favorite summer cocktails, cosmos and margaritas. Marion Hunziker-Larsen of Redwood City blends fiber techniques and jewelry technology to make unusual jewelry. Although trained as a silversmith, the jeweler’s love of fiber led her to combine micro-macramé knotting, half-hitching and kumihimo braiding — sometimes using as many as 500 knots per square inch. In some of her pieces, copper wire armatures serve as structural support for pretty semiprecious gems. Brighten up your day with a vibrant, machine-washable summer dress by Desert Hotsprings clothing designer Julie Anna Whomsley. Hours of sketching have led to some very colorful characters — Lumphead, Sleeping Moon and Sun-man, to name a few. Dresses range from abstract swirls and polka dots to island-style icons of fish, flowers and sailboats. “People call my clothes happy,” Whomsley said.