HEART & SOUL THE ART OF CLEO MITCHEL

By Emma Gutierrez

Cleo Mitchel is a self-taught, award-winning abstract artist whose work is making a mark in today's art world; she is a talented artist who has a unique germ of pouring out her heart and soul into any work of art she creates. In her paintings, Mitchel uses shapes, colors, forms, and gestural makes to produce its effect rather than attempting to describe a visual reality accurately.

Mitchel's works are creative and phenomenal, exploring concepts of humanity and nature in innovative and compelling artistic ways. In her works, mother nature takes center stage. Mitchel cleverly captures clouds, rainbows, plants, and other natural elements in a distinctive method of playing and mixing colors. As per the artist, "Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness," Mitchel uses colors to capture joyful and peaceful moments and express a rich ambiance and happiness.

During her creative process, there's no planning or calculation; Mitchel's approach is to let creativity instinctively lead the way. As a result, spontaneous imagery evolves as the artist naturally creates her works.

Most recently, Mitchel's trailblazing efforts in the global art scene were acknowledged when she was among the 60 artists this year to receive the ATIM's Top 60 Masters Awards by ArtTour International Magazine.

As per the artist, her profound desire is to motivate and inspire her audience to practice freedom, follow their dreams, and follow a path that makes them happy. Cleo Mitchel is one of the upcoming artists to watch in the art industry. She is a force to reckon.

Dalia Pugatsch (born in 1957 in Zurich) is a passionate artist from Zurich, Switzerland. At a young age, she began to express her life in drawings. She inherited the artistic gift from her mother's side - from her father's side, the intellectual foundation. She has mainly developed her painting knowledge autodidactically. During her artistic career, she also expanded her knowledge of painting with many well-known Swiss artists.

The artist often develops completely new painting techniques. Abstract shapes and expressive colors determine her paintings. Especially for her last series of works, Dalia Pugatsch developed a new painting technique called blur and dab. Her great artistic role models are Kandinsky, Klee, and Giorgia O'Keeffe.

Fifteen years ago, Dalia Pugatsch founded her own art school, «studio for art and design»-- hundreds of art students have been trained by her. Many art exhibitions and picture sales at home and abroad line up Dalia Pugatsch's artistic vita. In 2019 she wrote a book called «Art®evolution.» The book's content, i.e., the critical examination of a part of the art world with the basic thesis «away from the provocation and the superiority of the Artist name toward pure aesthetics and skill,» is miraculously confirmed by the inclusion in this yearbook.

However, after a few years as a lawyer, she fully devoted herself to her genuine passion for art. Her preferred painting technique is acrylic with structures and inlays.

"With my paintings, I try to send light into the depths of the human heart- my intention is to touch people. Again and again, I look for the subjective truth of aesthetics. It is wonderful to let my own philosophies of life speak through the mouthpiece of my paintings. The cave-Art series combines several of my interests: art, history, and mysticism. This work mixes 15,000-yearold image fragments from the caves of Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira with modern abstract art.

I created the second series, «breakup-life comes back,» at the end of the current corona pandemic. Finally, the bright colors of the diverse bouquet- called life –come back to us!"

I search for an art of balance and truth. My sculpture is deeply personal, and in making it, I am aware of "the principle themes of human existence: the otherness of nature, the limitations of language and reason, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."

I try to see things through "the eyes of a child" while struggling to rouse the "obscure power and penetrating inspiration " that is called the Duende."

| kmacklin@xplornet.ca |

Grid Images Of Nudes

“In this project, I am working with a cell phone camera to create 3 x 3 GRID images which I photographed in a studio model session to create a relationship in time.

I began to make multiple images in a grid in 1967, over fifty years ago, while working on my MFA Thesis in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There I created different-sized grids. 5 X 5, 8 x 8 and 10 x 10. I created photography organizations based on finding mathematical set theory patterns to fill the grid. At that time, I was aware of an art movement that was interacting with art and science. I was intrigued that I was able to use set theory, and it worked visually.

I returned to grids in 1992 when I combined 24 images with the Nimslo Camera. The Nimslo created four stereoscopic half-frame 35 mm negatives when the shutter was released. I contact printed two moments in time on a row, then four more moments in time on two more rows, thus 24 frames. My interest was in creating an image in time. There was a feeling of animation in these images.

Later in 1999, I began exploring grids again with the Action Tracker camera. This camera records two images in a moment from a slightly different moment in time. So, I combined two slightly different moments in time (four images) in a row and then three more rows of related action. The final image had 16 images of a related action.

In this new project, I am working with a cell phone camera. In a studio session, I am able to shoot 50 to 100 related images of objects or objects and its shadows with a nude model. The spontaneity of working with the cell phone camera enables the relatedness of any of the images to each other. | dan_mccormack@yahoo.com