Zima's art has a narrative quality that is enjoyed by the young at heart.
It is realistic enough to give one something to relate to, abstract enough
to allow for dreaming.
Paula's work and commissions include,
commercial illustration, public sculptures, drawings,
hand-colored etchings, sculpture and paintings.
She lives just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
on the American continent, on planet Earth.
Since 1985 her illustration work has been
featured on many of See's Candies Inc. novelty boxes.
In 1994 she illustrated the book
"Sunbirds and Evergreens, the Nuk-Chuk Stories",
by her father, Gordon Zima.
The bronze sculpture of the Bear and Chumash Child
located in the San Luis Obispo,CA Mission Plaza,
the fero-cement Horse sculpture in the
San Luis Obispo,CA City-County Library,
as well as the
cast concrete Bears
at the entrances to the town of Los Osos, CA
are pieces she has created
over the last fifteen years in San Luis Obispo County.
Paula's eduction is in Field Biology, Fine Arts and Graphic Arts.
In 1993 she worked as an apprentice
to the late sculptor Allan Houser in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She continues to paint and sculpt in a variety of media. |
