MARLO
Painter and poet
Marianne Charlotte Mylonas-Svikovsky – Geneva

MARLO discovered painting at the age of 12 and she continued throughout her professionnal and family life always with a creative side to whatever she did. She is also a 14 times prized poet, honored with the Medal of Cultural Merit by the CEPAL (Centre pour la Promotion des Arts et des Lettres 2016). She would also perform theatrical readings of her numerous poems or others, accompanied by musicians and organize such readings for litterary societies in Geneva.

Both painting and poetry are the complementary foundations of her art, both based on emotions, techniques, the means to render emotions in images. She paints whatever surges from her inner self either in an all prima intuitive stroke or after long maturation until she captures the spark that brought her to take the brush. It may then be poetic images, story telling abstracts, vibrations through lines and colors and lately emotionally impacting world events spmehow in link with ther life’s experiences.

Having lived in various countries, languages, mentalities, sceneries, their colors, and imagines are embeded in her mind and nurish her expressiveness just as the marking and tragic events in her life have increased her sensitiveness and emotional implacation in her paintings. She completed two years of art studies at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) where accent was put on creativity, and later, when living in Rome 4 years, she studied the Italian Renaissance masters and the country’s rich artistic heritage; both combined are the basis of her painting skill . From then on, she continued in her own way, painting and poetry helping her to find the way back to life when tragedies hit her two children until painting took over completely, giving her a new meaningful life , joy and this new conscious passion.
In 2006 Marlo started exhibiting in Switzerland, France, Milano, London and since 2017 she receoves many exhibiting and special events invitations.