Working in a variety of media and materials, I often turn to the natural world for inspiration, especially my California environment.  For my recent artworks I have selected elements from California’s vast landscape to create imagery that distills my visual and aesthetic experience. I use the “Golden State”, its mythology, and its diverse landscape to focus my visual and conceptual vision. In constructing my compositions, I use many multi-media processes, printed materials and handmade papers. These elements when put together suggest an offset and ever changing landscape. The images are a little fractured but always come together to present a cohesive picture

“Once engaging decorative motifs, eccentric and referential, he now engages patterned elements, reductive in their formal language and rhythmic in their recurrence. The reduced vocabulary allows the occasional hints of the real world to resonate that much more emphatically. Is it our minds seeking some sort of familiarity? No more so than with most abstraction; it is Zaleski seeking to keep the sap running, you might say, through the architectures he builds out of natural material.”

Peter Frank – Artillary Magazine

My artworks continue to expand upon my tight and clean essentialist depiction of the natural world.