'Do You See What I See?' explores sisterhood, care and the uncertainty of truly understanding another person. Zelga asks how we can remain connected while seeing and experiencing the world differently.  

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The work considers intimacy as a space that accommodates both recognition and privacy, allowing another person to remain partially unknown. Within this space, tenderness becomes a source of strength and quiet resistance emerges through the right to withhold, to reflect and to exist on one’s own terms.  

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Painting offers a form of psychological shelter, holding vulnerability, solidarity and difference together. The title invites us to question our assumptions and consider how patient attention might further deepen our understanding of one another.

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Zelga explores tenderness, care and collective strength through figurative painting. Influenced by feminist thought and communities grounded in care and quiet resistance, her work challenges hierarchies that dismiss the emotional or decorative as superficial. Rooted in drawing, her reductive approach to line allows colour and composition to express the complexities of our inner lives. Her paintings attend to the intimacies of contemporary womanhood, offering moments of introspection and connection in which vulnerability and resilience coexist. She trained at the Ruskin School of Art, Central Saint Martins, Wimbledon and Turps, graduating with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2026.