emotion  in the  ocean

Originals by Zara Akmalova

Born in 1997, Zara studied acting and worked in the movie industry. Realizing that creativity couldn’t be fully express through someone else’s script, painting became the perfect medium for expression.

Finding freedom on a blank canvas, she could translate her thoughts, emotions, and ideas into something visual — something honest. Each painting is like a moment captured from the inner world, a way to tell a story without words.

Her original technique starts with a mix of acrylic colors background that she creates in the moment — she lets go and goes with the flow. From that intuitive base, the full image begins to appear, always based on current moment .

You can often sense that energy in her work.

Zara lives between Italy, the Bahamas, and Australia. She travels a lot, each place bringing something different into her art — a new inspiration , a new color, a new rhythm. That’s why every piece is one-of-a-kind. Nothing is planned. It’s all alive.

Through her work, Zara wants to give a face to her generation — a generation of free individuals, full of contrast, carrying beauty and complexity in the world where everyone stands alone .

 

Artwork

Harmony 
$8,500.00

She merges with the flowing waters not to fight them, but to return to herself — finding quiet harmony in the place where her spirit and the world finally move as one.

120x100cm

Oil and acrylics on canvas 

Control
$6,700.00

Suspended in the rush of motion, he reminds us that true control isn’t about resisting the currents — it’s about mastering our balance within them

100x70cm

Oils and acrylic on canvas

Goddess
$4,500.00

Her calm, grounded presence suggests a quiet revelation: that true power comes not from armor, but from standing unafraid in one’s own raw, unfiltered essence.

100x80

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Aura 
$7,300.00

Aura is the quiet force that shapes the world before she even moves

100x120cm

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Grace 
$5,250.00

Grace is beauty that moves without trying

100x70cm

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Home 
$5,000.00

Home isn’t walls — it’s the souls who warm us, even under rain.

100x80

Oil and acrylics on canvas 

Substance 
$4,800.00

Through its dual portrait and dramatic contrast, the painting captures the unsettling tension between who we are, who we present, and who we might become.

100x100cm

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

Connection 
$5,100.00

The glowing sphere between them embodies the fragile essence of connection — a shared consciousness, a memory, or a truth that exists only in the space between two minds.

100x100cm

Oil and acrylics on canvas