Krone Artist In Residence: Mia Chaplin
Channel: Krone Cap Classique
Date: 2022-10-12

Mia Chaplin is a painter who lives and works in Cape Town. Working in oil on canvas and paper, her highly expressive works are characterised by their rich impasto surfaces and visible brushstrokes. Chaplin’s most recent works emphasize a muted colour palette of pink fleshy tones and golden highlights. Consisting of still lifes, figure studies and landscapes, her work seems to meditate on the familiar. Her loose, erratic style of painting – synonymous with that of the impressionists – is intuitive, heightening the emotionality of her pieces. They communicate a sense of estrangement; reflecting a detachment between the self and her surroundings. Her works sway between voyeurism and intimate interaction, while remaining consistently self-referential.

In 2020, Mia Chaplin attended the Krone x WhatIfTheWorld artist-in-residence program at Twee Jonge Gezellen.

Video: Jonathan Kope
Creative Direction: Hoick