Modern paintings that celebrate colour and the sensuous forms of the human body and rich patterns. Inspired by Gaugin, Matisse, Rothko and Picasso, Zara explores the intensity of colour and the ambiguity of form and space.
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| Zara Stanley was born in London UK and immigrated with her family to South Australia in 1975. What struck her most on arriving in the country were the intense reds, yellows, blues and greens of the Australain Landscape. All colours in Australia are heightened and vast and the colourful influence and space of her everyday enviroment can be seen reflected in Zara's use of colour and free flowing lines depicting diverse images from her personal interests.
The family then moved to Melbourne where at Elwood Senior High School Zara was mentored for two years by artist Shirley Hough in Life Drawing, Zara then went to the Victoria Art College majoring in Printmaking and then futhered her education with a BA in Fine Arts at Melbourne University.
Zara has worked in Galleries, participated in Community Festivals and has had several Solo and Group shows in Melbourne and Adelaide (cv provided on request) and is in two private collections of past sponsers in Melbourne.
What is unique about Zara's work is her use of... |
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