MIA WORLIDGE

ABOUT
 

Mia Worlidge is a Florentine trained Oil Portrait Painter. In 2020, Mia graduated from three years at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy, where she trained as a painter specialising in traditional portraiture and figure painting. Painting purely from life, Mia specialised in the techniques of the Old Masters.

After finishing her training in Florence, Mia moved straight to Rome to further her practical training, this time moving into the realm of modern painting. Mia trained at The Rome University of Fine Art as the first foreign student at the Italian institution. At RUFA, Mia specialised in Pittura, Fenomenologia dell'immagine, and Storia dell'arte.

Mia then further expanded upon her training undertaking a BA in History of Art at University College London (UCL). Specialising in contemporary American performance art of the 1970s, UCL was a channel through which Mia paired her Renaissance practical training with a rigorous academic grounding of modern art and exploration of movement.

Mia was awarded the winning prize of the Sacha and Susannah Steven Award for her work in portraiture. Since the award, Mia has gone on to teach at Charles Cecil Studios during their summer courses in Florence. Mia is also currently working as Artist in Residence at Anita's List in London, alongside taking private commissions at her studio in Kensington.

The amalgamation of traditional portraiture with contemporary academic art history allows Mia to explore people through nature through both a practical and theoretical lens. Each portrait is made up of the small moments shared between artist and sitter. Through her portraits, Mia’s hope is to pictorially share these moments: the moments that make up the person's spirit.