Tuesday, February 5, 2008
- Mila
Excerpt from the magazine:
Mila Judge-Furstova is a Czech artist now living in Great Britain. She has put down strong roots there, hailed as "one of the best and most original graphic artists to have appeared in recent decades," according to the November 2003 issue of the magazine CityLiving.
Even though at the age of 31 Mila Judge-Furstova is still at the beginning of her career, she has already won fifteen international awards. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. One of her graphic works adorned the title page of the art magazine Printmaking Today; another was used for the cover of Alan Smith's book Etching. Her works are to be found in the private collections of Vaclav Havel and the British Monarch.
"My work expresses the content of subconscious thought. It does this through mechanisms of symbolic thought as the forerunner of the spoken word. My work is linked to a certain degree with the Surrealists, in particular with their search for beauty in ordinary things," is the way the artist defines her work.
At the present time Mila is artist-in-residence at the Cheltenham Ladies College, where she built up and leads the graphics studio.