Contemporary oil paintings inspired by tradition & honoring the individuality, strength, and spirit of each horse through timeless, expressive portraiture.

A woman with long dark hair sitting indoors in front of a large window, with a painting of a horse on an easel in front of her. The woman is wearing a black vest over a white long sleeve shirt and a silver bracelet.

Zari Kazandjian is a Montreal-based oil painter working in the classical tradition. Through the language of Old Master painting, she paints horses the way earlier painters painted people, as subjects with presence, dignity, and character in their own right.