Zana is a painter of the natural world, with a particular interest in equestrian, wildlife and landscape subjects, based on a lifelong passion for painting, animals and the habitats in which they live and on her training and experience in wildlife ecology, landscape design and illustration.
Half -Australian, she has had a nomadic life, having been born in Cyprus and living and travelling in Australia, the Far East, Brazil, Africa and Europe. She recently returned to the North East to resume her painting career, after trying to “do her bit” for the environment, having worked for David Bellamy, RSPB and Conservation International. Zana benefited from an early training in drawing and painting from her architect-trained father and as a child spent longer drawing and painting than a normal school would probably allow, having been educated at home in the Philippines and Brazil.
She is strongly influenced by Scottish painting and in particular by the honorary ‘Glasgow Boy’, Joseph Crawhall, the great equestrian and wildlife painter from Morpeth in Northumberland. The colours, forms and atmosphere of the places in which she has lived and travelled inevitably also influence her work.
Zana is a partner in The Chatton and Bamburgh Galleries. She has exhibited by invitation at the Mall Gallery, London and has also exhibited at the Blagdon Gallery, Ponteland, The Smokehouse Gallery, Eyemouth, Anne Collier Fine Art, Newcastle on Tyne and Queen’s Hall, Hexham. She works in oil, pastel and watercolour and has arranged for PW Fine Art Prints to prepare limited and open edition, giclee fine art prints of selected paintings, using light–fast, pigment-based inks which are printed on archive quality paper.
Please click here to view Zana’s current prints and please contact us if you would like to discuss buying and carriage of her work.
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“Cobweb”. Original. Pastel |
“Harley”. Original. Oil on canvas | “Welsh mountain”. Original. Pastel |
