Colina Campbell-Mitchell

Artist and photographer

Studio: MSS 57

Colina has been taking photographs since her mother gave her her first camera aged 10. She has been making art since before she can remember – decorated boxes aged 3.
Her photographs are obviously objective, her drawings, paintings and prints mostly non-figurative. They inform each other and work in parallel, like two shire horses pulling a plough.
She draws on rich experience – Jerusalem; Norfolk; Monet’s House and Waterlily Garden at Giverny; South America (Venezuela); North America (Washington DC and NYC); London and Madeira.
She gained her BFA and MA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University. Before that she studied at the City and Guilds of London School of Art and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Colina has themes for her photographic work, for example What Men Do (WMD!) which includes the strange language of spray-painted marks on pavements; self-portraits; shots taken from the television; evidence of the natural world in the urban environment particularly London and more recently New York City because Nature is Everywhere.
She seeks to find the poetic underlying most things. Two feet on the ground and head in the clouds.
She also enjoys using calligraphy in her work and loves birds and how to express flight in quite an abstract way.
She currently runs art workshops for Afghan and Somalian refugees in Central London.
She is yet to make her second film.