Bio

Mimi Scholz has her roots in traditional art and animation and started to use thecomputer as an artistic tool in 2000 while she was working for film and design-agenciesas an illustrator and animator.The endless opportunities of the digital world fascinatedher 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 firstdigital works for herself until she met Yasha Young from Strychnin Gallery in 2006 whoencouraged 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 “home and family“she took part in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs. All her digital artworkis based on pencil sketches as pre-work which she describes as the most creative partof the time-consuming process of evolving a digital painting. She is using the wacomtablet and pen as a paintbrush colouring her work layer by layer in high precision whichusually takes several months to get finished.Her large works often span about 2 meters in length when printed out on museum-qualitypaper 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 asthe artist´s personal masterpieces.Mimi S. filled paintings are revealing dynamic stories which are told in many little detailssarcastically poking the cliches of the female psyche sexuality and beauty by showingher "unpredictable women with an attitude“ bluring the lines between good and evilambivalent in sane and insane while pushing to the edge of total hysteria. Strange fluffycreatures and animals usually appear as supporting protagonists in these maniacscenarios too.