Zara Elissa Tisma

Zara Tisma’s work is indicative of her mutual love for both the complex, modern city life and her ongoing love affair with the 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 bear 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.

Oxford Brookes Art Foundation, 2009 - 2010
Fine Art BA (Hons), Falmouth University, 2010- 2013