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Mimi Seton spent her childhood in a progressive boarding school located on an organic farm in the Adirondacks. 64 students and 20 teachers functioned much like an indigenous tribe: self-sufficient and socially egalitarian. Each child was encouraged to unfold according to her true nature, no one deemed better than another. Growing up in this way preserved Mimi’s creative spontaneity and made her a life-long proponent of fair and equal treatment for all.

Turning to Visual Art after decades as a writer-composer and intuitive psychologist, Mimi shape-shifts through a range of styles, from sensual celebrations of pure aesthetics to commentaries on the tragic costs of Patriarchy and ecological imbalance. Her work is usually non-representational, her process improvisational.

“I like to quiet my mind first and then allow the initial mark on the page - the color, line, shape - to reveal what comes next, rather than trying to translate a picture that’s already finished in my head.”

Mediums:

Drawing, doodling, painting and mixed media

Styles:

Abstract Paintings & Mixed Media responding to natural forms

Surface Designs built from paintings & photos of plants

Portraits of Women seen in dreams or deep meditation

Candid Black and White Portraits

Photos of ‘banal’ things like sidewalks, enhanced to reveal their beauty-within

Pen and pencil drawings satirizing modern life

Paintings & pastels of gods, goddesses, angels & mythical figures

Doodles of faces and figures using pareidolia*

• the psychological phenomenon where people perceive a meaningful image in a random visual pattern (like cloud formations). This is not a mental disorder, but a natural impulse of the brain to recognize and form patterns