Sonora Pass

Sonora Pass Art

Mileage to Pinecrest Lake

  • Sonora - 30 miles
  • Stockton - 90 miles
  • Sacramento - 134 miles
  • Modesto - 77 miles
  • San Jose - 152 miles
  • San Francisco - 160 miles



Local Artists


Brad Burns

Brad Burns is a Twain Harte artist. His paintings depict scenes from Pinecrest to Sonora Pass. He has reasonably priced Giclee prints framed and ready for sale.
Website: Brad Burns, American Artist


Barbara Conley

Barbara Conley does most of her art in acrylics, although she sometimes paints in oil and watercolor. Among her paintings are Pinecrest Lake, Soulsbyville, and many barn and mountain scenes. Her art can be viewed at the Petroglyphe Gallery in Mokelumne Hill.
Website: Barbara Conley



Dave Christian

Dave Christian creates a wide variety of art including drawing, painting, print making, calligraphy, mixed media, and sculpture. One of the most popular aspects of his art has been the travel prints he has designed and painted, including prints of Dodge Ridge, Pinecrest Lake, Kennedy Meadows, Strawberry, and Cleo's Bath.
Website: Dave Christian Art

Lorna Hunt

Lorna Hunt enjoys plein air painting, immersing herself in the great outdoors. Her oil landscapes include scenes of Pinecrest Lake, the Sierra, and the foothills. She is a member of the Mother Lode Art Association. Her work can be seen at the Aloft Art Gallery in Sonora.
Website: Lorna Hunt

Doris Olsen

Many of Doris Olsen's watercolors hang in private collections across the United States and in Europe. Her California landscapes include pictures of Sonora, the Clavey River, and Pinecrest Lake.
Website: Doris Olsen

Rhett Regina Owings

Rhett Regina Owings' art has been shown in galleries from Pacific Grove to Sonora and Murphys. She paints landscapes, still lives, and wildlife using oils, acrylics, pastels, and watercolors. Among her work you will find oil paintings of Kennedy Meadows, Strawberry, Pinecrest, and Sonora Pass.
Website: The Art of Rhett Regina Owings

Ray Person

Ray Person has spent many summer weeks at his family's cabin in Pinecrest. He works in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, pencil, ink & pencil, and acrylics. Prints and folded note cards featuring his watercolors and sketches of local scenery (along with original artwork, when available) can be found at the Pinecrest Gallery.
Website: Art By Ray

Michael J. Severin

Michael J. Severin paints oil landscapes, seascapes, still life, and town and city scenes. Among his paintings are scenes of Sonora Pass, Pinecrest, the Stanislaus River, Kennedy Meadows, Leavitt Meadow, Bell Meadows, and Relief Creek. His work appears in the Aloft Gallery in Sonora and the Beaux Chevaux Gallery in Murphys.
Website: Michael Severin Fine Art

Monika Stattner

drawing of dog

Monika's skill represents years of traditional academic training mixed with self-taught talent, inspiration and patience. She earned an AOS degree (with Honor) at Pratt Institute Manhattan. In her presentation drawings she developed a style using the many shades and layers of the silvery graphite grey usually with a single subject - there are few exceptions where high contrast is very evident. The drawings love to show texture, highly detailed and lifelike but not photorealistic. She is a self represent artist known locally for her pet portraits. She also has been an instructor at the Town Hall Arts Galerie Copper art classes in Copperopolis, California.
Contact her at monikastattner@icloud.com
Website: Monika Stattner

Robert John White

Robert John White captures photographic images of scenes throughout the West. Much of his work is done in black and white. His photographs include a dramatic scene of Cedar Ridge during a storm and several of Pinecrest Lake.

Artist in the Woods

Artist in the Woods was an annual program sponsored by the Stanislaus National Forest and the 3 Forest Interpretive Association (3FIA). The program has been suspended in recent years, probably due to COVID. Hopefully it will be reinstated soon.

The program provided a wonderful opportunity to connect local artists with the Sonora Pass environment and with visitors. "With the goal of creating a sense of stewardship for the beauty of the natural and cultural resources of the Stanislaus National Forest, the Stanislaus National Forest Artist in the Woods Program provides professional artists of all media an opportunity to receive creative inspiration for the Sierra landscape, while using their artists discipline. The selected artist will stay in a historic cabin on the Summit Ranger District for two weeks. A stipend will be provided to the artists from 3 Forests Interpretive Association for meals, a portion of travel and a small portion of supplies."

" In return the participating artist is asked to donate an original piece of artwork from and representative of their stay on the Stanislaus National Forest and conduct a workshop instructing the public in their discipline."

For more information, see Stanislaus National Forest's Artists in the Woods Program.

Tuolumne County Art Organizations

Tuolumne County Arts

Tuolumne County Arts helps support and promote the visual arts in Tuolumne County.
Tuolumne County Arts

The Motherlode Art Association

The Motherlode Art Association sponsors art shows, workshops, and demonstrations.
The Motherlode Art Association

Sonora Pass Area Art Galleries


All That Matters

22990 Joaquin Gully Road, Twain Harte, CA
(209) 586-1976
Art Gallery featuring local artists
All That Matters

Pinecrest Fine Arts Gallery

421 Pinecrest Lake Road, Pinecrest, CA
(209) 965-3800
Original Paintings, Prints from paintings and photos, pottery
Pinecrest Fine Arts Gallery


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