Campbell People: Bruni Sablan

Ainsley House
Bruni Sablan in the Campbell Lounge.

Campbell painter Bruni Sablan was born in São Paulo, Brazil but has made the South Bay her home since the late '70s. She does portraits of "every great jazz musician who ever lived." "The Jazz Masters Series by Bruni"--which consists of over 1,200 oil paintings of jazz and blues musicians--can be glimpsed at Bruni's Campbell Ave. gallery, along with her abstract still-lifes and tributes to humanitarians like Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King. (All portraits: © Bruni Sablan 2006)

BRUNI Gallery
394 E. Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008. 408.370.4700. Fax: 408.871.7903.

James Brown.

Miles Davis.

"I sit here and it gets me in a mood... I slip into a trance, go into another dimension."--Bruni Sablan, describing her nightly ritual of painting at her studio

Che Guevara.

Charles Mingus.

"True creativity... It's not so much what you get on the canvas, but how you feel after really painting."--Bruni

Bruni Sablan, present day.