Critic 1

Miriam Rylands' most recent phase has focused on painting abstracts, which she explores in lustful colors and innovative ways. Her work style has been defined as "contemporary gestural expressionism", where subjects are interpreted in a very fluid and spontaneous fashion. Her brush strokes are continuous and expressive, and her colors have highly emotional tones, leading her well into the realm of semi-abstraction in her figurative paintings.

Jess V. Nostrand - Art Curator

Washington, DC, USA

October, 2002

Critic 2

Miriam Rylands applies all her energy, emotion, enthusiasm, her restless and dynamic spirit, with such mastery. At these moments, oblivious to the world beyond, she works the raw materials, her hands imbuing all her experience, her emotions, and spirit to the creation she is molding, to the transformation of random and experimental configurations to vitality and reflection expressed in original and highly personal human forms.

Luma Ramos - Sculptress and painter

Belo Horizonte, Minas, Gerais, Brazil

July 2004

Critic 3

With her neo-modern style, the sculptures and paintings of Miriam Rylands are the fruits of her intense, vivid and beautiful work-strong, expressive, and busy, just as she is.

Belkiss Diniz - Sculptress

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

July 2004

Critic 4

First the joy of contact of hands wit clay; taking shape while the artist focuses undivided on the model. She abstracts the reality, stretches it out, bends it, twists it, looking for the angles, the harmony to unite the whole. The culmination is a sculpture in bronze, in marble dust, in metal microspheres, as in the series "Momentum" - emotion-filled, strange and revealing figures.

Mirtes Helana - Editor - Hoje em Dia

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

August 2004