Mirtala

Visionaries have always been individuals who seem able to step out of the river of life and, as their mortal feet are drying, gaze back into the muddy waters and see both the river's source and the infinite sea into which it empties.

They are endowed with the curiosity and capacity to look not at but through. Not content to accept appearance, they penetrate the seductive world of ideas and the spirit. For only there, in the intangible world within, can that truth for which they seek be found.

That a visionary artist such as Mirtala should try to make this interior world manifest in the very solidly material form of bronze sculptures is paradoxical, but no more paradoxical than life itself.

If visionaries are natural philosophers, then Mirtala is surely one. The nature of being is her realm of inquiry, the object of her investigation and the subject of her art. - Paul Nagano

"The realm of her art is eternal human concerns. Viewing her sculpture is an intellectual as well as an emotional experience." Boston Herald

"Mirtala approaches bronze as a poet, drawing metaphors on the human condition and making visible a complex range of perceptions." Detroit News

"Mirtala is an excellent sculptor, whose work is satisfyingly different from most contemporary sculpture. She has a style completely her own. I don't know another artist who is working in this vein, or in this style." Providence Sunday Journal

"Her bronze sculptures allow the viewer to see beyond the form into the language of light and shadow, to the reality of intangible truths." East-West Journal

"Mirtala's imagery is powerful. Her bronzes image an inward journey through a spiritual landscape signposted with visionary insights." The TIMES of India

"The artist seems to tell us about life as she finds it, with a fourth dimension of the spirit. Her techniques are flawless. Although small in size, her figures seem monumental, like the ideas they embody." The Christian Home Magazine