a bit about me

My name is Mila Moroko.
I am a self-taught artist, largely with no formal art education. For as long as I can remember, I have always loved to draw, paint or do anything creative!
I showed inclination towards arts at a pretty young age, but my ambitions were on the back burner for a while for various reasons. Consecutively, I took on jobs in different areas and industries, leaving painting as a hobby for my spare time only. A few more years down the line and I am now a mother of 2 young ladies, living in London. Wanting a more flexible job, and having a desire to do something that comes naturally to me, I decided to become a full-time artist.
I get inspiration from absolutely anything and everything, whether it is something I see, or something I feel. My styles and techniques are constantly changing and I find that each painting provides me with even more ideas for future works.
It is sometimes very hard to fall asleep at night – so many brand new sketches run through my head. I never stop learning, painting and thinking about art.

I am studying in a few online schools, doing various private classes and countless online workshops. I began selling my paintings two months after I had started painting them, but didn’t focus on that until recently. I am convinced that the thirst for beauty lies deep in human nature, and artists can make this world a bit better by adding a stroke of colour, light and art to our everyday lives. I paint landscapes and life forms that promise better times and places.
I am not ‘arty’, ambiguous, mysterious, messed up, young, ‘emerging’ or remotely likely to get famous – I just like painting.
Each picture should have an underlying message. This could be the flow of light, colour, tone or shape. It could even be the distillation of the air between objects. The best feeling is when a painting suddenly comes to life, and you see different colour combinations, textures. Your eyes keep getting drawn back to it, all the decisions you took along the way seem irrelevant because the painting just seems as if it couldn't have been any other way. And you think: I might just leave that one on the wall.