Zara Kolasinska Art

Zara Kolasinska Art Contemporary artist

20/05/2026

It’s been a while since I posted.
Life got crazy for a minute and before you realise months pass by.
I’ve felt up against it with social media and I can struggle to stay in the loop of staying relevant and seen. Then adding work and family life into the mix it all gets overwhelming to say the least.

Yesterday I painted though and that felt so amazing.
What else is new ? I’m studying a more psychology alongside a counselling course and philosophy classes once a week.
My long term aim has always been to bridge art with those other disciplines to create a kind of art therapy space with others who would like to explore art whilst addressing their mental health.

So in that respect I can at least say progress is being made.
I’m unfortunately not great with social media but I am trying my best to harness a one man show !!

Who would like to see more of the art or more art and psychology posts ?

Anyway, just a little catch up. 💕

In the meantime back to painting what I love most 🙏🏼

When you let art happen it speaks a different story in unspoken languages to countless souls. Each will have a feeling, ...
18/01/2026

When you let art happen it speaks a different story in unspoken languages to countless souls.
Each will have a feeling, each will except or reject what story it tells.
Each story is for them to uncover and enquire what the art has evoked within. 💛

This painting explores the inner world of boys with ADHD who are often misunderstood within mainstream education. The fr...
18/01/2026

This painting explores the inner world of boys with ADHD who are often misunderstood within mainstream education. The fractured lines, heavy marks, and layered colours reflect a mind that is vibrant, creative, and intense, yet repeatedly interrupted and constrained by systems that struggle to hold difference.

The stitched markings across the face symbolise labels placed too early and too harshly — “disruptive,” “difficult,” “bad behaviour” — labels that rarely ask why. Over time, these judgments seep inward, shaping identity and eroding self-esteem. The eye, wide and searching, speaks to constant hyper-awareness: watching, adapting, trying to read the room, trying to belong.

The bright green and blue tones represent energy, imagination, and emotional depth, while the darker overlays suggest suppression and confusion — the cost of being told repeatedly that who you are is a problem. The mouth, holding a fragile flower, embodies a longing for acceptance and softness in an environment that often demands conformity over understanding. It is both an act of resilience and silence.

This work also reflects how repeated failure within rigid systems can push boys toward places where they finally feel seen — even if those spaces are unhealthy. When belonging is denied in classrooms and communities, it can be sought in the broken corners of society. The painting questions how easily children are filtered into boxes, and how those boxes can become narratives they grow into: narratives that reinforce shame, anger, and disconnection rather than potential.

Ultimately, this piece is not about disorder, but about misplacement. It asks the viewer to consider how many futures are shaped not by lack of ability, but by lack of understanding — and how different those futures might look if difference were met with curiosity instead of correction


This painting wasn’t created to be understood — it was created to be listened to.Through a Jungian lens, art becomes a d...
15/01/2026

This painting wasn’t created to be understood — it was created to be listened to.

Through a Jungian lens, art becomes a dialogue with the unconscious.
The layers, the obscured face, the single eye emerging through shadow — these are not aesthetic choices alone, but symbols. Invitations.

When we allow the unconscious to speak through image rather than words, what is hidden begins to surface. Emotions we’ve learned to silence find form. What we avoid we can’t escape . What we fear becomes visible — and therefore, workable by bringing forth into our conscious awareness.

Art is not about control.
It’s about descent.
About letting the psyche reveal itself in fragments, stains, gestures, and contrasts.

This is where integration begins.
Not by fixing what’s broken —
but by witnessing what’s been unseen.

What do you see when you sit with this piece?

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10/12/2025

I’m currently working on a rather cute catfish, although it’s currently looking more like an exotic puffer fish from finding Nemo. It’s good to mix it up and try out some sea life though 💕

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