Brad Neal is a drawer and painter who was an architect for over 40 years. A Festival of Arts exhibitor since 2018, his pen and ink and watercolor work focuses on compelling local sights as well as favorite places that he has discovered while working and travelling over the years, both domestically and abroad.

Fred’s ceramic art is regularly exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country. He is the recipient of numerous awards, appears in many collections and has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as well as other publications. Fred has exhibited at the Festival of Arts for at least 30 years.

Eri is a ceramic artist born in Tokyo. While working as an industrial designer, she encountered the world of clay and started learning hand-building at a ceramic studio. After moving to the U.S., she began wheel throwing. Since then, she has been challenging her creativity in her studio in Orange County, CA.

Beau is an Orange County, CA native who draws his inspiration from the ocean & earth nearby as well as afar. You will find Beau traveling around the USA showing his art at art shows and expanding his library of imagery to include not only ocean based photography, but also earth-based photography as well.

Sheri Cohen is a co-founder of Indigo Lights, a jewelry design company. She has exhibited at hundreds of art festivals over the past 20 years – including the Festival of Arts. Sheri is a long time instructor at the Irvine Fine Art Center where she teaches lost wax casting, jewelry fabrication, and jewelry design.

Jayne began 30 years ago as a muralist for Newport coast homes. This led to becoming resident artist, lead set designer and prop stylist for South Coast Plaza. A self-taught artist, Jayne went back to college to study sculpture and illustration. Since then, she’s been featured in various publications.

Brian’s artistic journey has taken him through a wide variety of art forms. Brian has taught portrait sculpture, a variety of jewelry techniques, and glass fusing at the Irvine Fine Art Center in Irvine, CA. His work has been featured in books, magazines, and is in hundreds of homes and private collections.

Maaria Kader is a California fine art scratchboard artist. Her art has been exhibited in galleries across the country including California, Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio, Florida and across the globe in Australia.

Roberto’s father’s family were watchmakers, goldsmiths, gunsmiths and knife makers & his mother’s side owned art galleries. In 1980, Roberto moved to Orange County and set up shop. The next year, he juried into the Festival of Arts and has been continually juried in each year for over thirty years.

Ken Sugimoto’s work is sculptural metalwork. He has always wanted to create one-of-a-kind pieces as an antithesis of mass-production. Since then he has been willfully laboring in the world of metal art by both exploring and challenging his artistic abilities and limits in the creative confines of his studio.

Cheyne presents the location as if you were standing there witnessing that moment. He’s been published in National Geographic and had work inducted into The Wildling Museum of Art & Nature’s permanent art collection — one of the youngest photographers to receive these accolades.

The principal theme in Natalie’s work is nature and landscapes. She often revisits past trips taken when painting, both Australian and abroad. With a range of painting techniques, line, texture and color, her pieces mimic the elements of nature and create a kind of ambience.