Description
Miq Miles 1957 – 2024
MIQRA ORMANDE MILES or better known as Miq Miles, was born in 1957 in Pietersburg, Polokwane. She is a well-known Expressionist artist who works in a variety of media. Internationally, Miq was renowned for her use of vibrant colour, sculpting, form, usage of long brush strokes marking her as an abstract expressionist. Her art revealed the universal beauty of life as a whole, reminiscent of work done by the well-known artist, Irma Stern. Miq mirrors the character of the expressionist in her re-shaping of reality in an aesthetically pleasing way, without sacrificing form and content.
Nature features heavily in her work, and her closeness and understanding of her subject’s nuances. Using large colourful canvases, she achieves a 3-D effect by ‘sculpting’ the paint in a raised form to create unique and enduring art. Not confined to abstract or more realistic expressionist paintings, her skill as a colourist and application of shape, form, light and value that set her apart. The blasting reds, oranges and yellows, the velvety blacks, the flowing arrangement of form all reflect life and landscapes in all its glory, which results in a composition about the universal beauty of life in its whole.
Her work can be summed up by the following quote from Kasimir Edschmid: “The Expressionist does not look, he sees”
Her work is sought after by discerning art connoisseurs. She was internationally known, and has sold to galleries and International Collectors.
