Paintings · Acrylic and plaster on canvas
Tona E Zarrelli
A self-taught painter of color, movement and texture, building acrylic and plaster into deep dimensions on canvas.
- Three white sailboats in thick white impasto on a textured blue sea under an orange, green and red sunset sky, with a small white spiral in the top-left corner. No. 01 Reference work, not offered here
- Eight tall, narrow sails in red, orange, violet, blue, teal, green, pink and charcoal stand in a row above their rippling reflections on a cream ground, with gold leaf in the top-right corner. No. 02 Reference work, not offered here
- A white palm tree with green, orange and yellow fronds rises from spreading white roots on a deep reddish-brown ground, with a yellow-striped sun in the top-left corner. No. 03 Reference work, not offered here
- Green sea oats and coastal grasses bend across a coral and lavender sky above a pale shoreline, with a yellow sun in the top-right corner. No. 04 Reference work, not offered here
- A blue and white wave curls in heavy textured paint beside a dark rock under a pale sky, with a yellow sun at top left, inside a wide white plaster border. No. 05 Reference work, not offered here
- Horizontal bands of deep purple, lavender and white with mesh-textured passages, gold leaf and a soft yellow glow. No. 06 Reference work, not offered here
- Sweeping violet and blue strokes circle a pale center holding an orange linear form, crossed by bands of rust and turquoise, with a silver spiral in the lower-right corner. No. 07 Reference work, not offered here
- On a narrow grey-blue canvas with faint incised lines, a ribbon of color rises from blue and green through yellow and orange to red, with a small spiral at lower right. No. 08 Reference work, not offered here
- Turquoise and blue washes with a yellow-green vertical form and its reflection meeting at a white horizon line, with a white shell form in the top-right corner. No. 09 Reference work, not offered here
- A tall teal and violet abstract with dripping vertical strokes, gold leaf and thin silver lines beneath a textured silver disc at upper left. No. 10 Reference work, not offered here
- A tall pastel abstract in blush, cream, yellow, turquoise and soft green, with raised white plaster ribbons winding down the center and a small turquoise mark at top left. No. 11 Reference work, not offered here
The artist
Color, felt from the inside.
Tona E Zarrelli has been a self-taught artist all her life. She works mainly in acrylic and plaster on canvas, building textured layers that explore color, movement and emotion.
What she enjoys most is creating abstract blends that look as if they are coming out from inside the canvas, or opening into deep dimensions within it. She draws by eye and paints her own visions, and no canvas ever turns out quite the way she sees it in her thoughts.
She loves to sing and paint to her favorite smooth music, and she lets the rhythm guide her. A small sun or moon in the corner of each piece marks it as hers.
Draft biography written from Tona's own words, for her review. Profile at United Arts Collier
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