Zinnia Heartland is a multidisciplinary, mixed-media artist. She has lived on PEI, in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. She calls East Vancouver home.
Zinnia began her fascination with urban and rural landscapes at a very early age. Through her many moves as a child she developed a method of mapping out and exploring the environment around her in order to connect with the new place she was in. She was given her first camera at age 14 and has been taking pictures ever since. She brings her camera along on many adventure near her home in East Van as well as on her travels to places near and far.
Her photos capture neglected spaces, places left to their own devices; places that have developed on their own, places that inhabitants engage with lending each place its own unique colour.
Her mixed-media art work is a visually engaging combination of paint, collage, found, objects and photographs, a living document of where she has been. Her work takes you along, engages you in the process as she unravels the places has traveled to in her life. Zinnia actively maps out her life through through art and adventure and hopes to inspire visitors to create their own places to unfurl.
