Instagram: @ZeldaK_art

Email: zelda@zeldak.com

Cell: (925) 202-6373

My studio is in my home in Pleasanton

Contact me to schedule a visit.

I am mostly a self taught artist. Liked to draw since I was a child and over the years have been taking many art and design workshops and courses, studied and read about artists I liked as well as about surrounding history. I may have fulfilled more than an art college void and started painting consistently since 2019, when I got to spend a lot of time at home, and infected myself by an ‘artist’s bug’ which I’m happy to keep forever. This was seriously reinforced after I took Creative Visionary Program with Nicholas Wilton, who enthused me into motion with abstract work and freed me up from an “artist impostor syndrome” and got me unstuck for good.

My artistic journey has unfolded, a winding path, through pastel, oil, sculpture, ink, watercolor, and acrylic.  What began as representational work shifted toward impressionism, and now I find freedom in abstraction, allowing my imagination and experience of the world to flow without constraint. 

 Before I allowed myself to immerse in art, I was engaged in other professional endeavors and every time I experienced high stress I tried to turn to art as to my form of meditation and de-stress which, I must say, has evolved beautifully.

My inspiration comes from things I love: nature, hiking, music, travels, good writing, happy children and anything else beautiful.  I am moved by beauty in many forms — the steady motion of waves against rocky shores, landscapes that hover between reality and dream, graceful gestures, and the emotional power of music, deepening my connection to creativity and shaping the visual language in my paintings. Color in my paintings plays a major role giving a mood and energy to the piece.

I love the process of creating an abstract work when I rely mostly on my intuition and experimentation with no preconceived notion of the outcome! This is where I am now.