Hi, my name is Zara. I am a self-taught artist living in the UK. I am married and the proud mother of two sons and one granddaughter, whom I adore with all my heart.
I am also the happy owner of a beloved rescue dog, Spud, an English bullterrier, who is my trusty companion aligned by fate.
I am visually captivated easily, especially by art that arouses inner exploration.
I'm crazy for music, and my love for music ripples through the heart of my creative process in all my works, including writing.
I regard myself as highly intuitive, emotionally sensitive to others' feelings, and with an easily roused mind. On the flip side, I have a wicked sense of humour and playfulness to explore life and its meaning for us.
I firmly believe in finding meaning and purpose in all situations in life, as often they hold enormous significance in helping us learn more about ourselves.
In my spare time, I study Jungian depth psychology and other modalities of exploring human behaviour. In 2021 I finished a yearlong foundation with the SAP in London, intending to carry this further by merging art and psychotherapy as a career one day in my unique format.
Art is a profound messenger into understanding life, creation, and oneself: a wise teacher, Nature in flow.
Zara x
In 2014 I was initiated into the world of art after the sudden devastating loss of my Baby Daughter we named Ginger. My dreams and visions of mothering, nurturing, and witnessing my daughter grow into a woman ended as brutal reality defaced my future. I found myself going down a spiral into a world unknown, dominated by fear of life and expression itself.
With no place else to hide, as the undeniable drive to paint arose within, I accepted the invitation into the therapeutic lap of art born from an instinctual desire to express unnamed grief through creativity.
The uncanny recognition of a dormant self that emerged from a seed planted long ago and finally began to rise as the pain of loss moved the layers where that part of myself had long awaited to rise.
Art, for me, is an unpredictable mysterious expression that arises from the depths, whether from grief, sadness, joy or happiness. It’s a language spoken often without words through feeling, imagination and inquiry. Of which I’ve instinctively understood as a young child but sadly denied. Now reunited as an ally into the unconscious where healing and alchemy can merge through my hands upon the canvas to be expressed.
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“ Ginger, you offered me a rebirth the moment you passed. Rebirth into a different perspective. An unknotting of self. A channel into expression, creativity, wisdom, and growth. To love this life, given all its twists and turns.
To understand, we dream life into existence. To drink nature’s elixir and be transformed.
I am eternally grateful. ”
Zara x
