Anatomy of The Spirit 2024
Tiger Horse 2024
Zaina El-Said
My upbringing was influenced by communal and military atmospheres, interlaced with artists and designers all within one family. Thus, my artwork followed a similar pattern. In my work, a central character (hero or authority figure) leads the art, surrounded by patterns, ideas, architecture and details that come together as their own original visual stories, despite belonging to completely different origins. I focus on creating harmony through differences, and oneness from contrast of colors and ideas to convey the importance of transcending differences, if one is to focus on beauty. I attempt in my work to go beyond the scenery of our world today, and open windows into the past that travel into the ancient psyche, where nature and man were seemingly one.
About Zaina
Zaina completed her higher education in 2001 from the American Intercontinental University in London. Between travels and missions in Europe, America and Russia, it wasn’t until year 2010 that Zaina settled back in Amman and took up art as her career path. The creative side of the family dominated her choice in career, and it seemed destined she would eventually follow in their footsteps.
When Zaina began painting, she was mainly drawn to geometry and calligraphy, but it wasn’t until 2014 that she took a major turn and delved into the world of collage art. Using different material on canvas was a starting point, which led to creating whole pieces from cut-out magazines, newspaper, CD covers and any available material she found. It was the different textures and eclectic, surreal result that she was drawn to achieve. Collage art was a way to assemble new worlds from existing places and people. Moving forward with the collage technique, Zaina switched to digital collage, and managed to mix both digital and hand-cut together in her works.
