About the Artist
Mildred Orama is an artist born and raised in Puerto Rico, and currently living in Goshen, Indiana. Her medium is painting with acrylic on canvas.
She is a passionate self-taught artist. She has studied with different art schools via online classes.
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Art for her is a language, an expression of experiences without words.
She understands that art is vital and can start a dialogue,
"art is a way of healing".
Inspired by emotion
Mildred likes to work with mixed media, mainly using acrylics, brush strokes, charcoal, oil sticks and other techniques.
She is inspired by lived experiences and how those experiences make her feel. She uses palette knives, brushes, her hands and finds scraps as tools to create layers in her work. Orama loves watching how mistakes become a wonderful part of the final work.
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In her creative process she tries to capture and express the emotional reflections that trigger inspiration.
Her paintings are composed mostly of abstract silhouettes of women in natural landscapes in two-dimensional visual language. She enjoys creating what her spirit guides her to explore.
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Shape, line, tone and texture are used in various ways in her paintings to produce volume, movement and light. People delight her when they feel the intended emotion she imbues in her work, and they in turn are delighted by the brightness, depth, and harmony of her use of color.
Many express they can't believe she captures such vibrancy and richness using acrylic paint.
She has shown works in Grand Rapids, Michigan in two different galleries. The Local in Goshen, Indiana and in Art on Main art gallery in Elkhart, Indiana.
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She participated in Arts on the Millrace art show, Gauche Art Tour in Goshen, Indiana for several years. She has been featured in The Good of Goshen and Panoply Michiana.
