Photo by: Larry Letters
Sonya Palencia Nentrup
Artist
Sonya is a painter, illustrator, sculptor, and devoted animal lover, whose work celebrates the romantic and fanciful aesthetics of a bygone era.
A native of California, she embraced art as a child and continues to be greatly inspired by nature and history. She graduated from the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) with distinction in Film & Fine Art and served 10 years in the film industry as a designer and sculptor. With an adoration for German Romanticism, Czech and Mexican surrealism, she has traveled abroad to research the classical arts and traditional folklore. She and her husband, fellow artist, Jeff Nentrup currently pursue their fine art on a ranch nestled within the Californian Los Padres National Wilderness.