DOUGLAS CRIST/Staff Photo Paul Ziakin discusses his work at the Treehouse Cafe.

By DEE AXELROD Contributing Writer

If you call Paul Ziakin an abstract artist, you’re wrong.
Twenty years ago, Paul Ziakin was a trained and dedicated artist.
Now, after a hiatus to raise a family, Ziakin returns to the work he loves with new oil stick drawings on view at the Tree House Café through March 8.
“It wasn’t like I just fell back into (making art),” he said. “The desire was there, the passion was there, but it was like a person who’s in a terrible car accident and he’s paralyzed. They’re just determined to walk again. They used to walk, they love to walk. But it’s painful.”