Her interiors employ the language of chairs that face or turn away from each other.  Pillows pile haphazardly on comfortable sofas.  Rooms are cut off in midspace like interrupted sentences.  All of these metaphors for the complexity of human relationships.

In the intriguing quadriptych of bookcases Mitton titles "Remembrance of Things Past," she takes us a giant step further into the loaded significance furniture plays in her work.  No depth of space or character of room is used here.  Instead, we are confronted square in the face with these obsessive paintings of books and lovely ceramics all carefully placed and insistent in its order.  One is at once held back by the wall of geometry and pulled by the succinct placement of color and flourishes.  Perhaps Mitton is telling us that literary art as well as visual art requires the effort to look past surface to find the abstract truth that lies beneath.

Similarly, Mitton's landscapes are at once place as well as memory of life lived in a place.  We are required to accept randomness and order, surface and the unseen.  Almost all without portraits of others but, with the clarity of this artist's insistence upon their presence.        -Patricia O'Maille

"For the most part, all my paintings are conceived and completed on location.   I work from life; obseving nature closely, making my response to it as direct and immediate as I can through the fluid and sesuous properties of the paint.  The result is a two dimesional tonal relationship of color and shape often with tactile texture.  My intention is to produce a raw visual statement that reverberates life as I see it."                     -Nancy Dyer Mitton