Mesmerism: North Coast Asylum curates

Zara Tisma’s work seeks to illustrate the chaotic lifestyle of a city worker who is yearning for a period of stillness within the great outdoors. She encapsulates nature’s calming vocation, through her purposefully simplistic drawings and juxtaposes this solace with the strong calculated lines and expressive mark-making.

Drawing influence from the likes of Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky, she has developed a distinctive style, paying homage to the iconic movements that have inspired her. Her drawings comprise of mark making layers using pencil, ink, pen and paint, with stubble nuances of colour. Each of her drawings bears a narrative that relates to both the conscious and subconscious, illustrating what is seen and what is felt in a compressed area of time and space.

Since graduating in Fine Art from Falmouth University where she specialised in drawing and printmaking, her practise has evolved into a distinctive and unique style that conveys strong emotion through sophisticated, fluid compositions overlaid with subconscious mark makings.

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