Some of our Featured Artists
From sculpture, painting, and mixed media works to live music, dance, and spoken word. Each installation is designed to harmonize with the surrounding landscape, offering a moment of reflection, surprise, or delight. This is art not just to be observed, but to be felt — integrated into the rhythm of the forest.
Trisha Aitken
Has been creating fiber Art with fibers for many years, using yarn, old lace, dollies, wood and other found objects. Her work has been around Plumas county galleries, fairs and markets. She will be displaying a unique blend of Spirit catcher hoops, luminaries, and fiber art branches.
Lynette Choate
My name is Lynnette, and creativity pulses through my veins—I spent many years around wonderfully creative artists of all kinds in Laguna Beach that sparked my interest in my own creative works. Whether sketching landscape scenes in high school or experimenting with an array of mediums in college. This journey has allowed me to work alongside fellow visionaries in the world of theatre, where I’ve helped shaped sets and breathed life into countless imaginative projects. Now, I invite you to lose yourself in the enchanting realm of Mythical Mossy Magic, crafted to spark wonder and delight as you walk through the woods.
Trina Cunningham
Trina Cunningham is based in her ancestral Mountain Maidu homelands primarily in Plumas and Lassen Counties, Northern California. Trina has spent 50 years learning from elders, formal education in Geography and Planning, and practical experience of the optimal human relationship and responsibility to land and water. In a less than optimal world, time is of the essence to rebuild human relationship to nature and each other through leveraging will, skill sets, and resources affecting policy to ensure healthy lands, water, fire, and art balances.
Little Dove
Little Dove’s installation titled “For the Seasons” is an appreciation of the turning of the planet and the perfect latitude where we are lucky enough to live and thrive. This exhibit shows destruction of life’s passions, and depicts having to eventually leave home and life behind using wood recovered from fire killed trees the Bear Fire.
Saraha Enciso
Saraha has spent over three decades exploring the intersection of sound, spirit, and soul. Her offerings draw from training in therapeutic voice & sound healing, energy medicine, yoga, and somatic movement. She provides holistic and nurturing services, creates sacred spaces & offers ceremonial leadership in one on one sessions, classes, and community offerings in song and women’s healing circles. She is a singer/songwriter, performance artist, mother, and sings in a local band with beautiful creative friends.
Feather River Jubilation Trio
Comprised of Leslie Mink, Kenny Davis, and Barney Harchis, the trio is a miniature version of the full Orchestra that jubilates around Plumas County in unlikely places, at unpredictable times.
Danielle Frid
Quincy High School Art and Media Arts teacher, Danielle Frid, has been serving Plumas Unified School District for over 15 years. Inspired by the Gallery of the Woods collaboration, she is kicking off this school year with a sculpture unit. Art students of all levels will be displaying contemporary sculpture and installations, focusing on the elements of art: form, texture and color. You can see more QHS artwork exhibited at the annual Plumas Arts Student Art Show in May, and the Plumas-Sierra County Fair.
Trixie Hollyhox
Though art has always been a part of my life, I was not expecting it to become an essential expression of who I am. During the spring of 2020, I found myself with time to paint original pieces, which eventually led to painting murals, mostly in the small mountain community where I live. It was then I discovered that painting isn’t just a hobby in my life, or something I should do when I have time to squeeze it in—it is a passion, and I want to share it with everyone. I love to include unexpected charm in my work—something that makes the viewer smile, or some touch of warmth or comfort. When artists create something, they pour a lot of themselves into the piece and I think my artwork gives everyone a peek at my whimsical spirit.
Sara Hoxie
Sara Hoxie tells stories, writes and sings original songs about Northern California, people, rivers, mountains and wildlife. She is an alumnus of Feather River College and Humboldt State University (Cal Poli Humboldt), and currently resides in Shasta County. She has 3 albums, Prayer for Feather River, For the Time We’re Here, and Waterfall Boy. The proceeds from albums sold will be donated to the Will Hoxie Legacy Fund.
Michael Kelly
For the last fifteen years, Mike has dedicated himself to his construction business. His passion for high quality craftsmanship led him to explore custom woodworking, incorporating wood and epoxy into his remodels. In 2022, he made a significant investment in expanding his workshop in East Quincy, focusing on creating one-of-a-kind furniture and artistic wood pieces.
Jeff Kepple
Jeff is a singer/songwriter and longstanding physician in Quincy, CA. Many of his songs are inspired by wild places, and particularly how these places inform us about ourselves. Jeff often writes how beauty – even tragic beauty – can move humans toward deep meaning and profound goodness.”
Natalie Landfield
Natalie Landfield began her dance training at age six under the guidance of Glenda Carhart, former soloist with the National Ballet of Canada. Throughout her early career, she was fortunate to work with esteemed artists including David Allan and Clinton Rothwell of the National Ballet of Canada, as well as Darci Kistler, Peter Martins, and Katrina Killian of New York City Ballet. She furthered her training with Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet before stepping into leadership as Dance Director of North Coast Dance. Today, Natalie is the proud owner and director of High Sierra Ballet Academy, inspiring dancers of all ages.
Jeff Shelley Scott Morrison
Shelly is a bead and fiber artist for over 20 years. She loves creating with natural fibers and nature’s vast pallet of colors with her beautiful variety of plants. She has shown her botanically died silk wall hanging and shirts at Plumas Arts and sells bead work at Wild Pines.
Katerina E. Simonetti
Katerina has been drawing and painting since she was around three years old, eventually earning a double major in English and Art Studio from UC Davis. Katerina will be sharing is one of her most personal works — Fja and Wolves (2020) a tribute to her three children who never walked this earth: Fja, who was stillborn, and Rain and Shilo, pregnancies that lasted just six weeks each. In the painting, Fja walks through the afterlife accompanied by two wolves, embodiments of her siblings. Katerina often feels their presence in the forests of Plumas County, where she lives with her husband Charlie, their son Bodhi, and their three pets. After years of quietly creating, Katerina is finally stepping out of the “art closet” to share her work publicly, and is deeply grateful to do so in the community she calls home.
Jes Tamargo
I was born and raised in Plumas County. My passion is working with all things glass art. I draw awe and inspiration from our beautiful forest home. I am an instructional aide at Plumas Charter School and began teaching a glass enrichment class to middle school students last school year. My first exposure to glass art was an etching craft at Walton’s Grizzly Lodge summer camp as a child. I hope to share this joy with our community so that others can delight in color and light.
Victoria Vajgrt-Guthrey
A multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intuitive connection between people and the natural world. While her practice typically centers on watercolor and nature-inspired works, for this exhibit she steps into a different mode of expression. In collaboration with Saraha Enciso for Gallery in the Woods, they invite viewers to slow down, listen deeply, and engage with the intelligence of the forest. Their installation offers a contemplative, sensory experience that encourages presence and reflection. Their vision is both an offering and an invitation: to remember that we are not separate from nature. Through this work, participants are encouraged to let the trees speak, and to enter into quiet, reciprocal relationship as attentive witnesses to what the trees want to say. Through this work, they create space for others to rediscover their place within the forest’s ongoing conversation.
Lucinda Wood
Lucinda Wood loves to paint in wild, beautiful places, especially by the clear streams and rivers that surround her home in Quincy, CA. In this year’s Lost Sierra Plein Air Festival, her watercolors took first, for the Quick Draw, and third prize in the main event. She was Artist in Residence at Black Mt Lookout, in Plumas National Forest. Her Wild Encounters Show hangs in Main Street Artists Gallery, in Quincy, for the month of October. If you haven’t yet encountered Lucinda Wood painting along some creek or trail near Quincy, CA, here’s your chance!
