After retiring as District Chief of the Torrance Superior Court, Jan Govaerts received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art in 1991 and has never looked back. Her work has been shown in galleries across the United States and abroad and is in private collections, including the Art Colony Galichnik collection in Macedonia. In 1996 she and her seven studio mates founded the Loft Studios and Gallery, now Los Angeles Harbor Arts (LAHA), and were instrumental in starting a lively art scene in historic downtown San Pedro’s Arts Culture and Entertainment District, with the 1st Thursday art walk.

Carol Hungerford is a So Cal native impressionist style painter. Painting mostly in oil she focuses on color relationships using figures, still life, and landscapes as a backdrop for her work. She accepts commissions and has clients throughout the US and a few overseas.

Joy Gonzalez paints landscapes of Coastal California, where she lives, as well as scenes from her travels throughout California and the Southwest. She has enjoyed beach trips, back-packing and camping since she was a child. In this increasingly chaotic world, she feels that getting back to nature seems to restore sanity and serenity and that is what she tries to bring to her artwork.

I am primarily a colorist who works with mostly organic shapes and images. Color to me is like music, it connects with us in ways we don’t realize. It focuses our eyes, asks is this right, it it real it makes me warm/cold, safe/discomfort. Color that doesn’t seem to “work” together can cause a calmness/ discomfort at the same time. The painting and sculptural work both explore the mysteries and energies that happen in synchronicity The pain of the human condition, man’s spiritual quest, his relationship to earth and our attempt to heal earth when she is out of balance.

"If, as Thomas Wolfe opined, you can’t go home again, you can’t ever really leave home in the first place. You carry your whereabouts, those places that have made you what you are, with you at all times. Jim Murray’s practice embraces the notion of place as spirit, finding the personal in both the monumental and the quotidian.

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If art is a lens, Murray stays in sharp focus. If art is a mirror or window, then Murray’s art is a rear-view mirror and a windshield, streaked with memory." - Peter Frank

Rodney Boone is a photographer and photo-based collagist. As a photographer, what I am interested in are the myriad of tiny moments around us all of the time which, often busily chattering in our own skulls in our own personal monologue, dialogue, or multilogue, we can so easily miss. I think that life is lived best in these small instants, and much of my photography is a record of the moments that have surprised me with their abrupt vivacities.

Writer-artist Judy Herman works across a range of mediums — painting, collage, photography and digital collage — separately or mixed. Her style ranges from loosely representational to non-objective. In combining and altering images she allows viewers to see the world around them with fresh eyes. Her tagline is “Reality remixed.”

Miguel Aguilar is a South Bay based artist from Carson, CA. Primarily focusing on Abstract Expressionism, the use of pastel, chalks, and inks are used to explore themes of the infinite and primal simplicity.

Sung-Hee Son is a Los Angeles based multi-disciplinary artist and curator. She earned her BFA in fine arts from Montserrat College of Art in 1996 and started working in and learning about the art world in Boston and New York City. In her artistic practice, she explores abstracted themes of experienced and perceived realities. She weaves between the mediums of painting, conceptually inspired photography and mixed media sculpture and installations.

Born 1987, is a painter working in San Pedro CA. mostly in cell vinyl and acrylic. His work is abstract, filled with expressive brushstrokes, bold compositions intertwined with hints of figuration. His primary focus is on excavating his own symbology, and documenting the ever changing landscape of his subconscious, through a discovery process known as shamanic journeying. His work explores themes of alienation, destruction, and transformation.

Luz Mack-Durini is a Southern California artist raised in the small and picturesque country of Costa Rica. Working with mosaics for over twenty five years, she has traveled to study with several renowned mosaic masters from around the world. Currently, Luz divides her time creating mosaics at her studio, continuing her education in the Arts, and functioning as a Commissions Manager and Lead Instructor for public and private projects at Piece by Piece, a Los Angeles based non-profit organization that empowers residents who have experienced economic insecurity by providing free mosaic workshops enabling them to build confidence, earn supplementary income, promote wellness, and an improved quality of life.

Known for his 'jazz-like improvisations on canvas'', Los Angeles native Marc Raphael is self-taught and painted his first abstract expressionist paintings in 1991. A former K-12 teacher turned full time painter, Raphael has refined his action painting method and drip and splatter technique resulting in his colorful and dynamic curvilinear abstractions. Raphael shows out of Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles where he has grown a base of national and international collectors.

“I’m a thalassophile. The ocean is where I find my inner peace, flow and inspiration.“ - Stephanie Kohler

Hesh is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles and New York, he has worked in the commercial production industry for over 20 years. Born in California but raised in New England, Hesh's work has been seen in galleries, advertisements, and publications across the US and Europe. He has been commissioned by companies such as Gatorade, Amazon, The Glenlivet, 3M, and many others. Hesh has previously worked as a college art professor, a graphic designer, a seriously terrible DJ, and a rather mediocre tattoo artist.

Shannon Yoo is a Southern California based artist specializing in oil and acrylic paintings that capture the vibrant beauty of flowers, landscapes, and seasonal changes.  A primarily self taught artist, Shannon retired from a career in Corporate Finance to pursue her passion for painting.  Her work reflects a deep connection to nature and is primarily inspired by the natural beauty around her home in Palos Verdes, California.  Through her art, she seeks to inspire and connect viewers with positive emotions and the beauty of the natural world.

My name is Lisa and I am the owner and designer for RBJ. I have been making jewelry for quite sometime now.
RUBYBLU started years ago when I took a metalsmithing class in Long Beach.
The brand is named RubyBlu because it's a Bohemian (Blu) Rebel(Ruby)
jewelry brand. The bohemian side of the business is where you see all the natural stones, everyday pieces and items you can wear over and over. The rebel side of the business is where the designs are slightly edgy, heavily influenced around music and bolder statement pieces.