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Mia Oehlmann - Artist Biography
Mia began her art journey during a difficult recovery after surgery on her spine in late 2014.
Mia is mainly self-taught, works with oil paints but also charcoal sketches and dabbles in sculpting out of mixed materials, resin and miniature busts in Polymer Clay. She has a contemporary classical style, although steps into the abstract at times. Her love of people and animals and their different characters drive her to seek out faces to paint and draw. Mia tries to bring out what is unique in each subject all the while staying true to their likeness, this also goes for her abstract pieces.
Although she spent most of her life in Australia after migrating with her parents as an adolescent, she has now returned to her country of birth Sweden. Before migrating, Mia grew up on one of the islands of Stockholm as well as Småland in Sweden’s south, and spent most of her time near or on the water. Her ties with nature, light and water has a tendency to inform her work whether she is doing portraits, still lives or landscapes.
She has done some short course work with the esteemed Australian and local artists and teachers Geoff Dupree and Ignacio Rojas at Melbourne Studio of Art in Elsternwick, Melbourne AUS, as well as attended a weekend art retreat with visiting Korean-American artist master Zin Lim also whilst in Melbourne AUS, and is currently furthering her artistic qualifications by finalising a Fine Arts Degree in her spare time.
Mia has been an active member of the NRAAA (National Registry of Australian Art and Artists), MAVA (Melbourne and Victorian Artists Inc), ArtAviso, and has exhibited at the Camberwell Art Show 2018, RAW Artists Melbourne Oct 2018, The Mornington Art Show 2019, ArtAviso ‘VitroForm’ Exhibition at Lord Coconut, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019, as well as MAVA ‘MANIFEST’ Exhibition at 345AC Gallery 2019, amongst others.
