Lay of the Land Painting

Farida Zaman is a Toronto based painter and illustrator known for her upbeat, lively, colourful, and whimsical style. Her work has made appearances in the Latin Grammy Awards, The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, and Time Out London, among many others. Farida displays a wide versatility of applications of her style: her art has been used in posters, book covers, children's book illustrations, corporate projects, food packaging as well as licensing her images on giftware products. clothing, packaging, and giftware.  Zaman's paintings are primarily in acrylics, often mixing in elements of collage in to her art. Her love for nature and flowers is the inspiration for her fine art, The acrylic paintings bring visual pleasure leaning towards abstraction and colour, brightness of paintings often transport us into a world of exuberant contrast, emotion and sensitivity. Farida Zaman’s work has been exhibited at private shows and public galleries in New York City, New Jersey, and Toronto. Her limited edition prints were exhibited and sold at the American Craft Museum in New York City to wide acclaim. Her style of art was also an inspiration for a painting class called “ Painting from the Heart”, and intuition based painting class for adults to paint from a place of non- judgement and negative self talk, taught at an Art School here in Toronto. Zaman’s love of culture, travels throughout childhood, and recent trips to Morocco, Thailand, Turkey, Iran, and several European destinations influence the multicultural nature of her work. She is a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York, SCBWI (Society for Children’s Bookwriters and Illustrators), and CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication).