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Shelley Zentner

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Artist formerly known as Hocknell 👩🏻‍🎨 Born in Wales, now living in Lake Tahoe, California. Join me at Oceanside CA July 24-31 Plein Air Festival 🌊

I’m painting at the Oceanside Plein Air Festival

I’m painting at the Oceanside Plein Air Festival @oceansidemuseum next week! There will be all kinds of opportunities for people to watch over 200 artists paint live at the coast, a farmers market, a winery and lots of sunsets…🌅 If you love art, then this is the event for you. All works will be for sale “off the easel”, plus a juried exhibition at the Oceanside Museum at the end of the week which runs until October. Museum art will be sold via online auction 🔨🎨
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I’ll share my paintings and experiences on IG, and if you’re in the ‘hood, please drop me a line and I’ll let you know where I am that day! There’s an interactive google map of all the artists so you can peep over the shoulder of your favorite painter 👩🏻‍🎨 Fancy, eh?
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Festival dates: July 25th-31st 2021
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“Swell”
Oil on Linen 8x10”
$520 unframed, $600 framed
🌊🎨🌞 #artatoma

My new website is finished ✅ Lots of new work o

My new website is finished ✅ Lots of new work on there, and I’ve begun an Archive section too, dating back to my early work as a student in 1994…I’ll be scanning some old slides and transparencies to add soon. Also more climbing art. I feel very old now! ~
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This is a new piece that I’ve been working on in the studio for a few months now. It’s called “Choir”. The trees are visible from my studio, and their beautiful dying swansong has been calling me for quite some time. I read a while back that trees can take 500 years to grow, 500 to live and 500 years to die. Their cycle is at the speed of wood! These Jeffrey Pines don’t live that long I don’t think, but you get the picture. Here we get to observe the life in death that trees experience. Before they’ve fallen they’re homes for innumerable organisms, birds, squirrels and chipmunks 🐿. When they lay on the ground, and begin to decompose they feed other trees and plants, and sometimes a new tree will grow directly from the fallen trunk. This is called a ‘nurse log’. ~
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I’ve written a new artist’s statement and added it to my blog and it’s also under ‘about the artist’ on my website. Check it out at www.shelleyzen.us. Any feedback would be awesome, I’m not a web designer and am flying by the seat of my pants 👖 as usual! ~
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“Choir”
Oil on Canvas 40x30”
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#newwebsite #artistwebsite #pleinairpainting #studioart #choir #callandresponse #jeffreypine #lifeanddeath #lifecycles #dusk #river #eveninglight #artistsoninstagram #welshart #welshartist #soundhealing #harmony #danceoflife

This piece was purchased in January after our neig

This piece was purchased in January after our neighbors @barbmavon and Ron saw me drawing by the river and stopped to talk to me. The painting was still wet so I popped it in a frame and asked to have it back to varnish in 6 months. Lovely to have her back for a few days, finish up the back properly and see her installed. Thankyou for supporting my work Barbara & Ron 🥰🎨🌲 ~
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“The Rudder” (2021)
Oil on Linen 18x8”
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Painting and Drumming by the river. @drumchik_team

Painting and Drumming by the river. @drumchik_teambuilding Liz Broscoe and Artist Shelley Zentner collaborating for the first time in nature. They will be hosting an open studio event together on August 21st at Shelley’s studio in Christmas Valley. Details to come 🌲🎨🪘

Tomorrow 6:30pm PCT me and my friend @drumchik_tea

Tomorrow 6:30pm PCT me and my friend @drumchik_teambuilding Liz Broscoe will be live on IG by the river: painting and drumming. Liz plays an amazing Swiss drum called a hand pan, which is a beautifully serene instrument. With the river as our inspiration, this promises to be a transcendent experience. Check out Liz’s website at www.drumchik.com See you tomorrow!

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Lupins I can identify, but the little pink flowers

Lupins I can identify, but the little pink flowers 🌸 are a mystery..can anyone tell me what they are? ~
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“Among the Wildflowers”
Oil on Canvas 16x20”
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#tahoewildflowers #wildflowers #lupines #pleinairpainting #plein_air_life #welshartist #californiaartist #southlaketahoe #outdoorpainter #oilpainting #impressionism #pinkandpurple

Becoming quite obsessed with the acid green reflec

Becoming quite obsessed with the acid green reflections in the river right now. The new leaves on riverbank willows are an almost unreal colour to me, so vibrant and punky 🧑🏾‍🎤 Nature is wild! 💚 🌲 ~
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“Acid Reflection”
Pastel on Toned Paper 12x18”
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#green #acidgreen #punk #pasteldrawing #pleinairpainter #springgreen #pleinairdrawing #truckeeriver #tahome #greengoddess #mothernature #rivermother #reflections #artistsoninstagram #thegreatoutdoors #outdoorpainter

The winner of my Yoga Warrior Art giveaway is of c

The winner of my Yoga Warrior Art giveaway is of course, my legendary brother who does nothing by half measures. He chose the music, made the costume, directed the film and learned the pose. He researches deeply for everything he does, so really is a true Renaissance Viking Man ⚔️
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@sacred_knot_tattoo choose a drawing and it’ll fly over the ocean to you ASAP 🥰
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#warrior #welshartists #renassainceman #vikingart #celticart #greatorme #warriorpose #yogawarrior #artgiveaway #winner

Epic day hike to Lake Aloha with friends and famil

Epic day hike to Lake Aloha with friends and family yesterday! I definitely feel like I earned this quick sketch near the curiously Hawaiian named lake, which had a very Wintery vibe. This spot was literally about 5 mins down the trail, sheltered from the wind and snow. There’s definitely a large studio painting in the making here 🎨 ~
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Talk about 4 seasons in one day! 🌞❄️🌨 The landscape reminded me of Wales and Scotland in places, and the trail took us through multiple waterfalls, meadows, rough intimidating rocky cirques and several hanging lakes. 🌲🖼 Breathtaking stuff! The cute creature is a Marmot ❤️
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9 hours of hiking, 12 miles round trip, 1879ft of elevation gain. A 10 yr old, and a tiny dog 🐕 which ended up in a backpack 🎒 😂 ~
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~ Finished with a hot tub, wine and Thai food 🍲 ❤️#awesomeday

Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Nature without check with original energy. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of stars 🌟 ~ From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ~
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Helter Skelter Charcoal and Pastel 18x12”
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#forestbathing #shinrinyoku #pleinairpainting #sketchbook #artistsoninstagram #modernimpressionism #lightindarkness🌔 #yinyang #tao #balance #newlife #weareallmadeofstars #waltwhitman #leavesofgrass

Scoping out painting 🎨venues near Blue Lakes on

Scoping out painting 🎨venues near Blue Lakes on Sunday while Dylan and Taylor fished nearby…such inspirational landscape ~
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The mountains provide an Edgar Payne 🏞 style big vista possibility and the river, a sheltered intimate experience that feels like home when the California sun gets too much for this pasty European girl 🌞⛱🌲 ~
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Another beautiful day at the river, one of contemp

Another beautiful day at the river, one of contemplation and memory.
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A pair or ducks 🦆 floated by, which I may add to a studio piece this study might evolve into. ~ ~ Later, my daughter and I swam in the river, and it felt like heaven. ~ ~
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#betheflow #pleinairpainting #thisismychurchthisiswhereihealmyhurt #welshartist #califoriaart #riverpainting #artistsofinstagram #allaprima #oilonlinen #taoistart #smellthepaint #nature #tahome

Duality is a theme that recurs without my consciou

Duality is a theme that recurs without my conscious intention, and has done since I was a student. Learning Tai Chi with @taoistwellness and reading Laozi has only increased my sensitivity to the dynamic balance of opposing forces in life, in nature and in myself. Loose paintings like this push me to work more spontaneously, and allow whatever wants to appear to manifest itself. It’s uncomfortable, letting go, but beautiful things can happen when you get out of your own way ~ 🤌🏼
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~ Thankyou @georgethompson.uk for your incredible YouTube videos on Taoism and your most recent film Journey to the East. ☯️❤️. ~
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#betheflow #pleinairpainter #sunset #oilpainting #laozi #duality #oilonlinen #dynamicbalance #taichi #wudangwellness #georgethompson #welshartist #californiart #laketahoe #getoutofyourownway #journeytotheeast

Today’s Plein air painting pushed me further out

Today’s Plein air painting pushed me further out of my comfort zone again. Thick paint, bright colors and buildings..none of my usual motifs. ~
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Taylor came out to see me and asked if I knew I was painting a toilet. So we have some title options: 1. Acid Aspens 2. Spring Aspens
3. Shithouse Vote in the comments.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world ~ ~ ~ ~

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world ~ ~ ~ ~
#pleinairpainting #connectwithnature #smellthepaint #femaleartist #landscapepainting #painter #paintfromlife #breathe #thegreatputdoors #getoutside #look #nature #atonewithnature #riverwild #grounded #colour #landscapeartist #springintahoe #motherland #lightandshade #illuminate #oilpaint #process #wip #oilpainter #newwaveart

Going live for the planet with @polefortheglobe in

Going live for the planet with @polefortheglobe in the next hour or so…watch this space #oracles #shamanperformance #fuckplastic #tahoeactivistartists #polefortheglobe

Just finished this Spring painting today 😊🌞

Just finished this Spring painting today 😊🌞 🌱 Feeling the flow… ~
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“Spring in Christmas Valley”
Oil on Canvas 20x16”

Sneaky little peek of our upcoming group performan

Sneaky little peek of our upcoming group performance on May 23rd 🖤🖤🖤 (warning to those with light sensitivity) Choreographed by @featherpistol Costumes by @chimera-dactyl Music by @sacred_knot_tattoo Film by @acwithft…
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Video and costume from @darkraum for our Viking Oracle Deer concept
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I’m so thrilled to have amazing people involved in this production! We’ll be filming on May 23rd and streaming live from woods 🪶🌷🪶
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#polefortheglobe #darkraum #featherpistol #performance #groupshow #ecotribe #atreyu #artistactivist #plasticsucks #fuckplastic #patreoncreator #deer #vikings #oracle

“Study direct from nature. Study to feel, and to

“Study direct from nature. Study to feel, and to know something of her visible functioning. Nature, to the thoughtful will always remain a vast and delightful storehouse, the fountain of inspiration. Nature is forever providing for the artist untabulated surprises; it is for these that he is to be envied. It is the artist’s privilege and prerogative to capture these miracles and transmute them into expressive form” ~ John F. Carlson. ~
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This is my baby, the first layer, a fresh response to the beauty in front of me. Thank you @richardjoliverpleinair for sharing the book ‘Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting’ which came at just the right time to inspire 🐝🌲🌞

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