Whether in the acrylic flower
forms he has burgeoning off small panels or the vast, almost drapery - like gouaches on paper he has bedecked with yet more stylized floral, and animal,
forms, Zakanitch
celebrates nature -
plants, birds, other wild beings - in a way that determines a fine line between the naïve and the elegant, the dopey and the exquisitely limned, the hermetic and the expository.