Mimi Scholz has her roots in traditional art and animation and started to use the
computer as an artistic tool in 2000 while she was working for film and design-agencies
as an illustrator and animator.The endless opportunities of the digital world fascinated
her from the start and she began to improve her technical skills in painting her pencil-
illustrations digitally.
Without having the serious intention to get into any art-businesss she created her first
digital works for herself until she met Yasha Young from Strychnin Gallery in 2006 who
encouraged her to work as a full time artist and to show her work in public.
Since being represented by Young and Strychnin Gallery as her âhome and familyâ
she took part in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs. All her digital artwork
is based on pencil sketches as pre-work which she describes as the most creative part
of the time-consuming process of evolving a digital painting. She is using the wacom
tablet and pen as a paintbrush colouring her work layer by layer in high precision which
usually takes several months to get finished.
Her large works often span about 2 meters in length when printed out on museum-quality
paper and are being hand-grafted and varnished with an acrylic coat by the artist herself.
These big pieces are always one of a kind and became the key to her artistic identity as
the artist´s personal masterpieces.
Mimi S. filled paintings are revealing dynamic stories which are told in many little details
sarcastically poking the cliches of the female psyche sexuality and beauty by showing
her "unpredictable women with an attitudeâ bluring the lines between good and evil
ambivalent in sane and insane while pushing to the edge of total hysteria. Strange fluffy
creatures and animals usually appear as supporting protagonists in these maniac
scenarios too.
