Seyburn Zorthian

“Japanese Heart”
2003, watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 in.

Minimum Bid:$500

Statement
Regarding the abstractions on paper, 2002-2006. This body of small eclectic abstractions on paper represents an exploration of interrelationships of water, color, light, dark, shape and rhythm. These paintings are intuitive and non-formulaic, reflecting the present workings of the inner mind and soul. Understanding these paintings is like interpreting a dream; it is the visual language of the unconscious. Influences on this body of work include many years of working with calligraphic brush and ink, an ongoing interest in 20th Century abstract painting, the study of the figure by drawing, and a trust in the Self.

Bio
Seyburn Zorthian is a painter and has shown in the United States, France, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. An early love of the American and European abstractionists of the forties and fifties and later study of abstract calligraphy in Japan, lead Seyburn to the development of the work she does today. She attended Chouinard and San Francisco Art Institute and received a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts. She was a student of shodou master Shiryu Morita in Kyoto, Japan in 1974. Seyburn lives in the mountains above Santa Barbara and maintains a studio at the family-owned Buttonwood Farm in Solvang, California.