Born in the Bas-du-Fleuve, Miville (real name Jennifer Tremblay), who grew up and studied set design at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique in Quebec City, is also a renowned costume designer in the television and theater industry.

The character and its psychology inhabit Miville, she is greatly inspired by German expressionism; its subjective aspect and instinctive functioning.
Through the portrait, she develops the notion of identity and gender through a reflection that begins with the photograph. She draws a personal self-portrait, exaggerates and transforms the physical features in pencil on canvas, then stages herself in a solitary way. Her figures are framed in a close-up chest shot in order to focus on the face and for the viewer to pay attention to the emotions and the psychology of the character. Interaction is paramount. Situated in an abstract “No Mans Land”, sometimes half arrogant, half blasé, inquisitive or melancholic, his portraits, whose gaze is most often on the viewer, seem to know more than he does. Miville cultivates the strange, sometimes disturbing. The distortion of the line animates her, she reinterprets the notion of beauty whose aestheticism varies according to the paintings. Newly back to oil, graphite takes its place energetically through her brushstrokes. She assumes a unique and daring color palette, from Japanese red aka to salmon, through all shades of green. Miville translates in her own way, in the same way as the expressionists at the time, her anguish about the world and society as she perceives it today.