Miville

Miville’s abstract work mainly explores two mid-20th century movements: Action Painting and Minimalism. Her artistic influences stem from the same era. Contradictory combinations—such as vitality and energy versus a sense of calm—are at the core of her approach.

When painting, the body’s involvement is total, almost performative; her gestures are visceral, grounded, wholehearted, and impassioned—at times nearly brutal. She visualizes in a meditative way and launches herself intuitively in a single breath, not through automatism but guided by an inner movement. The result is refined and aesthetic, balanced, leaving areas of raw cotton canvas visible, as though suspended in weightlessness.

Inspired by nature, the movement of water, and both organic and urban architecture, her work combines mass and volume with balance, graceful lines, and light. The harmonious relationship between humans and nature, and their symbiosis with space, are central to her artistic inquiry. Architectural structure encourages her to move beyond her naturally circular gestures.

For Miville, composition is the very breath of the painting. Once completed, her canvases are mounted on stretcher frames, allowing her to experiment with form and space. She prepares her own palette of acrylic pigments, blending custom colors, though black and white remain omnipresent in her work.

Miville invites the viewer to inhabit her paintings, to bring them meaning and make their story their own. This is her definition of beauty: something that emerges only through the emotions and narratives evoked in the viewer by her pictorial work. Spirituality also plays an important role in her practice, and she believes that Minimalism can influence our well-being in daily life.