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.

Gestural abstraction, Miville’s work is inspired, at the level of execution, by the abstract expressionist movement: action painting.

-” Embracing automatism and abstract expressionism, Miville has inherited the fulgurance of Marcel Barbeau and the plastic and spiritual approaches of Franz Kline and Antoni Tàpies. “-Éric Clément, LA PRESSE

The investment of the body is total when she paints and the movement of an almost meditative violence.

-There is in Miville’s paintings a subtle brutality, an incredible refinement – I was going to say a tenderness – in what seems at first to be a release. It is sweet and violent at the same time. “Mathieu Laca, PAINTER

His approach is both intuitive, charged and liberating.

-” In spite of the disheveled edge of the raw canvases, the droplets of paint that have fallen from the brush and the traces marked by the wear and tear of his brushes as a house painter, the works are finely proportioned. They have a clarity, a sharpness, a fulgurating quality that recalls certain paintings by Joan Mitchell or Marcelle Ferron.” -Josianne Desloges, LE SOLEIL, QC

Composition is crucial for Miville, she considers it to be the breathing of the painting. Her paintings are mounted on false frames once painted, which allows her to play with shapes and space.

-” Miville has a good sense of movement and aesthetics as well as composition. “Curator Malgosia Bajkowska, SALON B

-” The inspiration of the masters Tàpies, Franz Kline, Francine Simonin and Rita Letendre shines through in her work. “-Sandra Godin, JOURNAL DE QC

For the past 3 years, Miville has been practicing copperplate engraving with passion.

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