Updated web site of James Zar -  www.jameszar.com

James Zar has run the gamut in all areas of the fine art and commercial art fields.  Someone once said he’s one of the most diverse artists I’ve ever seen.  He’s been a celebrated sports illustrator, a major movie artist, a classical still life master for galleries across the United States, and a mystic interpreter of unseen realities as demonstrated in his powerful surrealistic fantasy or dream art creations.

Education: Mr. Zar studied at the San Francisco Art Institutes, and privately with the late Keith Finch.  Mr. Finch was the biggest influence in his current free wheeling fantasy work.

Shows and awards:  Zar won first place in the Los Angeles Bicentennial show, a gold medal in the San Dimas Art Festival, and his work is part of the Raymond James Museum.  He has had numerous one-man shows and he has been written up in Desert Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, Rendezvous Magazine, Southwest Profile and Southwest Art magazine.

At present Mr. Zar is focused on his mystical fantasy art, and with the help of his son, whom Zar refers to as, “The Great Chet” (a great artist in his own right)  has set up a new web site and blog to try , as he says, “To share my life’s work and deepest heartfelt convictions with as many people as possible.”

James Zar also has a blog discussing the symbolism and his process in creating his paintings:

"My artwork, especially the fantasy work, is developed out of spontaneous feeling tones. A figure or a scene flashes across the palace of mind and insatiable curiosity draws me into a new adventure. This quality of being in the creative mode attracts great energy to it. Every new painting is in the womb of this new energy. I believe every self or person is an energy idea. This idea yearns to be expressed. God also yearns to know more about God through this life or expressed idea.Rarely does the meaning or teaching of a new painting make itself known to me until after it is finished. Then, often it will startle me with, 'Oh, that’s what that means!'" - (excerpt from James Zar's blog)

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