Born in rural MIssissippi, Zona grew up with a strong sense of her Choctaw heritage. When she was a child, Zona dreamed that someday she would go "West" and partake of the Native American culture.
Zona earned three collegiate degrees among them an art degree. She studied with Bob Nicks, world renowned portraitist, but discovered her most ancient and heritage imbued canvases of leather a mere half dozen years ago.
Since that time, Zona has brought to leather not only her art training, but a keen eye that through the years has gathered technique and style from her working with Pueblo and Plains Indian painters. Pieces of deer hide and natural pigments combine to remind us of a lineage that goes back through time to the earliest peoples who dwelt in caves and painted their hopes, fears, and life on walls as well as on skins |
