Mono-based Impressionist Artist, Mina Zare, has honed her painting skills extensively over the past several years. She works from her Summer studio on the second floor of their barn and Winter glass home studio surrounded by wilderness.


Having moved to the Niagara Escarpment area, Mina has been inspired by wildlife, farms, forests, rocks and running rivers surrounding her.

Mina is an artist who graduated from an Architecture Faculty with a master’s degree in urban planning and design. Since 2005, she has worked in both Planning and Public Works Departments at various Greater Toronto Area Municipalities.



Mina's artworks have been exhibited in several galleries and Museum juried art shows. In 2022, she received her second award of employees’ choice from Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archive (PAMA). Most recently, Mina had the opportunity to be part of the Jury Panel at the Multicultural Art Show at Museum of Dufferin in 2023.
She was featured in two articles with the Orangeville Citizen Newspaper.
Exhibitions and Juried Art Shows are listed below:
2024
• Solo Exhibition- Headwaters restaurant in the Millcroft Inn and Spa
2023
• Headwaters Art Gallery- Wild and Free
• Headwaters Art Gallery- Around the Square
• Headwaters Art Gallery- As the Story Goes
• Dufferin Museum – Multicultural Art Juried Show (Part of the Jury Panel)
• 27th Annual Headwaters Arts and Fall Festival Juried Art Show and Sale
2022
• Headwaters Art Gallery- The View from Here
• Peel Art Museum and Archive (PAMA) – Second Award Peel Employment Choice
• 26th Annual Headwaters Arts and Fall Festival Juried Art Show and Sale
• Dufferin Museum – Multicultural Art Juried Show

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am inspired by the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement of women in Iran. I have evolved my oil painting experience by using pallet knives and thick oil layers on canvases. I am recognized for my abstract landscape paintings, whereby a contrasting object to an abstract texture determines through an imagination. My painting is a journey into the unknown, full of challenges, surprises, and ultimate satisfaction. Besides painting within nature, often of times, my brain scans my surrounding natural environment and start painting in the studio; however, sometimes begin without a clear idea and more intentional brush strokes emerge along the way with pallet knife movements and textures.