Meet America’s Top Artists and Craftmakers at Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival

Mac Hillenbrand of Amber Waves of Grain makes contemporary 2D marquetry wood inlay art, often using wood grain to represent oceanic texture for seascapes. Mac also pioneers new methods to create paintings out of wood using tinted resin.

Arricci handmade jewelry by maker Catherine Arrigotti, captures the beauty of nature in miniature landscapes by combining metals and natural stones, embellished with granules and nature-inspired elements. Designed and made to bring the beauty of nature to your fingertips.

Glass art by Patrick Kelley of Aurora Creations creates rainbows in a sunny window; natures best colors with real wildflowers.

Be Good Monster is the name of the fun and whimsical illustrations and designs created by artist Matt Wayne, who has been drawing monsters and the like his whole life. Matt makes everything by hand — screen printing T-shirts, cutting and coating shrink film, and even printing and folding each earring card.

Brewster Mosaics specialises in mosaic art for the home. Using stained glasses and resin, these pieces are functional, food safe and surprisingly durable for the medium. Works include wildlife wall art, coasters, tables, trays and much more.

Bug Under Glass™ is a collection of biological art combining conservation, natural history and design. Framed insect displays feature eco-friendly natural biological specimens, museum-grade 99% UV-blocking glass, and gallery-quality shadowbox frames. Every piece of art includes natural history information and a biological story about the specimen displayed. Made by the artist in the USA for 20 years.

These clear acrylic displays contain some of the world's most beautiful exotic butterflies. Steven Albaranes of Butterfly Gallery obtains these beautiful exotic butterflies from comercial breeding farms mostly bred in South American Rainforests. On these farms the butterflies mate, lay their eggs and soon, about 2 to 3 weeks, die a natural death and are then sold to museums, schools and a few artists like Steven for the world to see up close. He has been creating butterfly displays since 1990. 

Sylvia Hemby's By the Sea Collection showcases her obsession with the ocean. Taking photographs of flowers inspired her to create the By the Sea Collection where she individually places natural seashells to create a uniquely stunning floral pattern.

Kimberly Repp of Coastside Creations creates small batch, eco-friendly, cold processed soaps, skin and body care. Their non-toxic mission carries over into their luxury home fragrances which includes candles, room diffusers and wax melts.

Coralie’s Creations offers specialty hand-knit hats, as well as hand-painted pillow covers and canvas bags. They have something for everyone with 100+ unique hat designs, pillow covers for an original painting in any room, and canvas bags for you to shop in style.

As Curvy Clayworksstrong>, artist Marienne Chapman revels in the details. Her unique handmade ceramic pieces have designs of raised dots and are beautiful, functional works of art. So tactile, they beg to be touched and are a centerpiece for your home. Follow @curvyclayworks on Instagram and visit www.curvyclayworks.com.

Roberta Dallimonti of Dallimonti Pottery will be selling her gorgeous pumpkin pottery designs, Beautiful as well as functional, each piece is created by Roberta in her Watsonville studio.

Demby | Co offers interior fragrance products that intersect natural with luxury. Their modern minimalist design aesthetic combined with contemporary gender-neutral scents captivates senses and transforms living spaces.

An avid beachcomber, Jo Fry of Fierce Siren Studios creates unique, one-of-a-kind jewelry and art using self-collected beach finds. Sea glass stars in hammered silver statement pieces and is used as a textural element in mixed media paintings on canvas, wood, and paper.

JEEBA Jewelry artist Jason Dayne has been creating jewelry pieces for 40+ years. Inspired by life and travels in Australia, the South Pacific & the California coast. 

Kileen’s Garden Boutique specializes in succulent wall gardens in many shapes and sizes. The perfect addition to your patio and home decor, or a special gift for a plant lover.

Marea Baja Designs is sea glass art made by artist Betsy Bothell using only real sea glass that she has collected on beaches over the past 22 years and transformed on repurposed wood backgrounds.

Martha’s Special T's Halloween hats and accessories will have you bewitched and ready for a good time.

Bay Area ceramic artist Megan Brown of Megan Brown Ceramics infuses intricate and unique modern design into her handmade stoneware and porcelain tableware, home decor, and jewelry.

Miss Maegan’s Bowtique offers quality handmade character inspired hair bows, hair bow holders, bow ties, and jewelry. These accessories are designed to not only complete your character inspired park outfits, but also to add a little bit of magic to your everyday attire.

My name is William Wat and I am the artist and business owner at Nite Owl Ink. I create conceptual illustrations and use apparel as my canvas. 

Wilfred Obinyan's paintings are inspired by everyday activities, people, places, cultures and identifications. His medium is acrylic on canvas and his subject is always color. The painting displayed above, San Francisco downtown traffic, describes his composition-take of busy downtown San Francisco, using fish as models. Wilfred also enjoy painting pet portraits, houses and cars.

Odin’s Organics provides certified organic freeze dried meat, herb, fruit and vegetable dog treats in 9 types of meat. I also provide handmade doggie gift cards, wound care salve, organic Cbd for dogs and cats and an allergy formula.

Rencarie is proud to bring you clean-burning tabletop fire pits and/or 100% all-natural recyclable soy candles in various shapes, sizes, and colors. Tabletop fire pits are hand poured from colored marbled cement.

Seaside Weavers hand weaves doormats, baskets and hanging flower baskets out of crab pot rope reclaimed from commercial fishermen along the Northern California coast. Upcycled, gorgeous, durable, useful art for your home and garden. Seaside Weavers - weaving the world a better place.

Gail Barsky of Tie Dye by Gail began tie dyeing as a hobby in 2022 and has a passion for upcycling gently used clothing from brands such as Carhartt, Dickies, Old Navy, boho brands and even customer-supplied cothing. Her process uses primarily ice dyes with dye sourced from the best dye houses in the USA. She specializes in overalls, denim jackets, vintage Harley Davidson, hoodies and t-shirts but has also dyed home accessories including sheets, towels, shower curtains, tapestries, aprons, play tents/teepees for children and pets, and more.

Tri & Thom Tran of Tran’s Hand Crafted have been in business for 35 years. Their entire collection of purses is individually designed, hand cut and sewn with a single needle that provides a beautiful form of artwork.

Hilary Williams creates limited edition fine art screen prints on paper with a primary focus on featuring natural scenes and landscapes from the greater California Bay Area.