I make paintings from what happens just before I know what I'm looking at.
I'm Zanda, an abstract expressionist painter based in Scotland.
My work is rooted in three interwoven ideas — the way we perceive, the intelligence of water, and the quiet power of slowness and presence. The paintings ask the viewer to notice their own seeing, not just what they're looking at. That act of noticing is what the practice is built around.
Riot of Spring Where form begins and meaning is still becoming.
Blue Dragon A slow, deliberate presence. Forms that refuse to be hurried.
Confluence The meeting of currents. Sea all around, land left behind.
my work emerges from three interwoven foundations
The gentle insistence that slowness, tenderness, and presence are a form of resistance.
A cosmology where clarity and cloudiness are states we move through, not problems to solve.
A framework for noticing how you are seeing, not just what you see.
soft rebellion
mystery of water
transpectivism
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