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Shelley Zentner

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Artist formerly known as Hocknell 👩🏻‍🎨 Born in Wales, now living and working in Lake Tahoe, California

Have you noticed that Reno is becoming more of a h

5:30am alarm✔️ Pack school lunch ✔️ Walk t

5:30am alarm✔️ Pack school lunch ✔️ Walk to bus stop✔️ Look at stars and sliver of moon✔️ Exercise ✔️ City Council meeting✔️ Website updated ✔️ Pick up from school ✔️ Guitar lesson ✔️ Dinner on ✔️ Wine ✔️ Watch School of Rock for the 100th time at daughter’s insistence ✔️ Fall asleep on couch at 8pm✔️ #rockstarlifestyle #thisartistslife #selfemployedwomen #artistwebsite #womenartists #tahoeart #supportthearts #community #southlaketahoe

Lazy start today after an inspirational day in Ren

Lazy start today after an inspirational day in Reno with my new friend and fellow British Artist Abroad @caroleannricketts. We met recently at @sierraarts gallery after we’d been selected to exhibit together for our two woman show next March. The curator @maria_partridge had no idea we were both British, and we all did a double take when we opened our mouths to speak. What a lovely coincidence! We went out for tea afterwards and immediately hit it off. In Carole-Ann’s words, it was like reconnecting with an old friend from art school 🎨🥰 ~
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Yesterday we met for lunch at @twochicksreno, my favorite restaurant in Reno, where I celebrated my clean bill of health after my cancer checkup with a naughty Bellini (daytime drinking!) before Carole-Ann arrived 🥂🤩 ~
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After much chinwagging and talk of Britishness in America, we walked through Midtown to check out @savagemysticart, a beautiful new art space showing some incredibly Welsh looking landscapes. They have a Rumi quote in the window, and have a love all things spiritual and creative in a way that I like very much. A space for me to watch I think 🧐
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Now I’m off to pose for a photo in the hot tub for a project my artist in arms @whatdoesanartistdoallday is doing. She’s been commissioned to create a deck of tarot cards with @alicegrist, and wants a figure for the Temperance card. I think a little soak and meditation would be fine way to prepare to paint the river today. Today is a good day 🌅 Thanks for the inspiration ladies 🥰💕

Exciting day filming with @ericminhswenson and @sc

Exciting day filming with @ericminhswenson and @scottforrestart at my studio and by the river. I’ve been using charcoal from the spot fires 🔥 that could have ignited our whole valley during the #caldorfire this summer. Just for some perspective: Christmas Valley is less than a mile wide, and the fire torched both slopes that overlook us. A few embers caught near our home, and burned a cabin. Also a few small bush fires. Surreal. Making art from the ashes is helping me process what we went through. All that fear and uncertainty. Some survivors’ guilt. Much gratitude. I’ll be showing the drawings and paintings I’m
Working on next March at @sierraarts in Reno. More to come. #artfromtheashes🔥 #plein_air_life #artfilms #christmasvalley #forest #forestfires #river #healing #charcoaldrawing

Caldor Fire Special Edition Print, to benefit the

Caldor Fire Special Edition Print, to benefit the @thewffoundation Wildland Firefighter Foundation. Fine Art, Archival Giclee Print 20 x 16" from the original oil painting "Choir" by Tahoe artist Shelley Zentner. 100% of the profits go to the families of fallen Firefighters 🚒 🔥

$150 + Tax. Free local pickup from Christmas Valley, $10 shipping US, $20 Worldwide

How to buy: I accept Paypal or Venmo. Message me @shelleyzen with your request and I'll send you an online invoice. Turnaround is within 24 hours.

"The Wildland Firefighter Foundation’s main focus is to help the families of firefighters killed in the line of duty and to assist injured firefighters and their families. We honor and acknowledge the past, present and future members of the wildland firefighting community and partner with private and interagency organizations to bring recognition to wildland firefighters.

We help maintain and grow the national monument established for our fallen. We operate a financial fund which provides critical assistance to the families of fallen and injured firefighters. We partner with private and interagency organizations to educate the public about wildland fires and promote excellence and safety in firefighting. We present program information and in some instances, onsite crisis support, to government and private fire agencies and other organizations."

Learn more: https://wffoundation.org/

#CaldorFire #christmasvalley #eldoradocounty #wildlandfirefighters #wildlandfirefighterfoundation #supportfirefighters #artforacause #southlaketahoe #kirkwood #grizzlyflats #pollockpines #community #forest #pyrocene #globalwarming #forestfires #californiawildfires #maytheforestbewithyou 🌲

“View from the Sanctuary” Burnt Jeffrey Pine

“View from the Sanctuary” Burnt Jeffrey Pine and Willow, Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Stonehenge Paper. 30x22”
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#artfromtheashes🔥 #findbeautyineverything #caldorfire #calfire #sanctuary #burn #survivethenight #californiawildfires #spared #pastellandscape #charcoaldrawing #burntwood #jeffreypine #willow

Making art from the ashes today #caldorfire #findt

Making art from the ashes today #caldorfire #findthebeautyineverything #charcoal #charcoaldrawing #forestfires #christmasvalley #risingfromtheashes #arttherapy

Recently I heard someone refer to our current era

Recently I heard someone refer to our current era as the Pyrocene. That is, the epoch of fire. As I watched our forest and possibly our home burn on a live feed last night, with a mixture of grief and awe, something shifted in me. For the past week or so, we in our community have been following the progress of the #Caldor fire obsessively. The fire started miles away down the mountain, and within a week has raged up towards Lake Tahoe and finally dropped into our valley yesterday. Like a slow motion punch in the face, we all saw this coming and knew this was going to hurt.

What shifted for me last night was a recognition that has been gathering in my mind that if I think of this moment in terms of deeper time, perhaps tree time, this moment is a tree ring, a layer in the soil strata. In human time, the smoke might be detectable in the lengths of our hair, nails, lungs. It’s no accident our lungs branch like trees, leaves, lightning. We share a huge percentage of or DNA with trees, breathe in concert with them. Words like symbiosis, mutuality, exchange, and of course, community come to mind.

We are a community of humans here in South Lake Tahoe, who belong to larger community of the forest. In some cultures, the word forest means world. Native Americans refer to fire as medicine. This moment is part of the natural cycle of forest, although human attempts to control nature has resulted in a deep imbalance. What we’re witnessing now is the pendulum swinging back and forth with more energy and momentum than we can process easily.

This painting had a working title of ‘Testament’, which referred to the dying trees outside our home next to the South Upper Truckee River in Christmas Valley. I felt like I was bearing witness to them in their last years, and that the painting and the action of recording them through an emotional lens was a testimony of some kind. They say trees take 200 years to grow, 200 years to live, and 200 years to die (give or take a few hundred depending on species and environment I suppose). I saw their beauty every day as I walked along the river, clearing my head, forest bathing, sketching, swimming, aimless wandering.

Last night amid the chaos of wildfire approaching,

Last night amid the chaos of wildfire approaching, a wedding happened at the top of Northstar mountain, and I painted it. Surreal, beautiful and a testament to the commitment of all involved, a whole team of us drove up the mountain on rough forest roads to bring the lovely bride @jillvecchi and her wonderful husband Tyler the wedding they so deserve. Cheers 🥂 you lovely people, and thank you for inviting me to capture your special day. Thank you @mirawed for your incredible efforts planning and adapting to the challenges of the day❤️
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Now the next challenge is to find a studio space to finish the painting since we’re evacuated due to the approaching #caldorfire 🔥🤔 #neveradullmoment #weddingpainter #beautyinchaos #thisartistslife #shelleyzentner #northstarresort #smokeandart #maytheforestbewithyou

Ooh this was fun! I’m out in the car park of thi

Ooh this was fun! I’m out in the car park of this cool wedding venue @wedgewoodweddings and food hall @windmillfoodhall painting this wee alla prima oil. 🌬
Back to Oceanside now to paint a wave!
🌊 #windmill #windmillfoodhall #wedgewoodweddings #allprima #pleinairpainting #plein_air_life #oceansidemuseumofart #carlsbad #socalart #newwaveart #thisartistslife 🌊🎨👩🏻‍🎨

After painting the tamed cultivated landscape of w

After painting the tamed cultivated landscape of wine country yesterday, at the beautiful @beach_house_winery, the call of the wild was strong in me. 🐅 I woke up to coastal fog, and was grateful for the shroud of mystery it promised. Scouring the Satallite layer in maps for trails took me to Carlsbad Lagoon. The trail was overgrown, and the sign at the trailhead warned of Rattlesnakes and black widows…more wildness than I had in mind.

Belly rumbles, coffee calling. Found an awesome gastro-breakfast place @toastgastrobrunch. I’m now officially toasted. On the way in I glimpsed a windmill. Van Gogh. It’s calling me, so now I’ll shift gears and see how it resonates when I’m out there with charcoal in my hand. The adventure continues 🎨 👩🏻‍🎨 ☕️. 🌞. #gettoasted #coffee #adventuresinpainting #artatoma #oceansidemuseumofart #pleinairpainting #artistslife #windmillsofmymind

Sunset, Carlsbad. Instagram post 18181287940141859

Sunset, Carlsbad. Instagram post 18181287940141859

Day one of the Plein Air Festival at Oceanside. I

Day one of the Plein Air Festival at Oceanside. I painted this at Buccaneer Park, where there is a beautiful little wildlife haven. Ducks, a White Crane and a Great Blue Heron kept me company, along with a few lovely kids who kept asking when I was putting the duck 🦆 in. Sorry little fella, they didn’t swim past in the right place 🙄
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What do you think it should be named?
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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

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