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Welcome to Maluca Studios. 

At the core of Maluca Studios is the belief that language is a tool that allows us to make meaning of an otherwise inarticulable world. Drawing on the Portuguese word for madness, Maluca Studios thrives on finding the perfect way of translating into visual form the very things that spoken words sometimes fail to express.

Working with oils and acrylics, Zara Diniz will transcribe your visions, personal stories, and memories into paintings and murals that reflect your personal tastes.  Zara is an artist recognized for her work as a painter and muralist. With 21 years of painting experience and as a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, she has been commissioned to paint custom artwork and murals for many clients and charities, and is also an art educator. As a visual artist, she delves in the simplicity of painting and the expressive nature of its creation. She creates paintings that capture the medium’s material stages while still depicting people and objects in their utmost familiarity. This unique synthesis of high realism and expressive painting marks her distinctive surrealist style.

With a BFA in Drawing and Painting and eight years of experience as an arts educator, Zara is always open to communication and sees her painting process as a close collaboration between the artist and the client. She aims to bridge conceptual differences through the sharing of ideas to produce a piece that symbolically translates her client’s visions. Building on a level of trust, her past clients have included charitable organizations, secondary and post-secondary institutions, theatre companies, and media events – as well as the hundreds of individuals who have sought her creativity and talents. From portraits to abstracts and surrealist works, there is no theme Zara can’t take on. In fact, the more challenging the project, the better!

“An artist shows us what they look at, but ultimately they teach us how to see.”   - Zara