 Julien MivilleBorn to an opera singer and a pianist vocalist, Julien Miville's childhood was filled with a vibrant dialogue of movement, rhythm, pattern and beauty. As his creative talents developed, he began to transform the auditory abundance into a rich visual language. He studied at the Ives Gammell School, under noted artist Robert Cormier from 1994-1997. There, he was able to strengthen his technical foundation in drawing, still life and figure painting, while continuing to explore an impressionistic approach. In the last ten years, Miville's work has culminated into contemporary American impressionism in landscape with some experimentation in pointillism. Recent works depict landscapes flush with saturated color and the intense light of the scenes they portray in Cape Salt Meadow, Flying Point, Shinnecock Salt Meadow and Morning Sand Dunes. To Miville, the ever-changing nature of light is the sublime subject. Through it, he can transport the viewer. Passionate about capturing the immediacy of a landscape, he uses the technique of 'broken color' to create an impression of light splashing across the surface of a painting. Artistic figures who have been a source of inspiration include painters such as Edgar Degas, Camille Corot, Paul Cezanne and George Bellows. "Beauty is vital to my work and an intractable passion, but there are so many kinds of beauty, so many stories I can tell with my brush, I'm not sure what's next. Only that it will be unlike what I have done before," says Miville. His work has been widely exhibited and collected. His paintings have appeared in exhibitions at the Stefani Hulitar Gallery (1989, Palm Beach, FL); and group exhibitions as a member of the Guild of Boston Artists (2006-present, Boston, MA); the Grenning Gallery (2007, Sag Harbor, NY); Clarke Galleries (2003, Stowe, VT); Jensen Fine Art (1997, New York, NY) and Helander Gallery (1989, Palm Beach, FL). His paintings are in over 50 private collections, including such prominent collectors as Hamish Maxwell, Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham, and model Carmen Dell'Orefice. His formal training includes the study of figure painting with Warren Prosperi (Cambridge, MA); pastel and abstract painting with Matthew McCarthy and Sam Perry at The Armory School (West Palm Beach, FL); drawing and painting with Robert Cormier at Ives Gammel Atelier (Boston, MA) and plein air landscape painting with David Curtis (Essex, MA). He primarily works in oils but has worked in pencil, pen and ink, contè crayon, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and clay.See work from this artist. Artist List |
