XENA Print

Self-taught visual artist, Mireille CEREA was born in 1963 in Marseille, in the South of France, a region where colour rises to light. During her first professional life, Mireille Cerea dedicated herself to finance as an accountant. A job she loved for 25 years. Then, the disease passed by and disrupted everything. She took refuge in "the artistically". Art lover, in 2008, she headed to her passion for painting. She is inspired by great masters such as Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Pierro Di Cosimo, Alfons Mucha and is influenced by contemporary artists like Cinzia Pellin, Vittorio d'Angelico & Warrol's graphic codes. After exploring different techniques, today she chose to work with acrylics, which allows her to give free rein to her spontaneity, through research on textures, colors and movement. She uses all her skills and influences to paint artworks that will be light sources, vibrations, emotions. She paints with her personality, her experience. Her artworks reveal a rain of emotions, witness of the weather that lies inside of her and her self-opening upon the world. Art delivers, she says. In her portfolio, you will mainly find portraits. “The Woman” is her main source of inspiration. The beauty, the voluptuous curves, the inaccessible and mysterious woman, her expressions, her feelings, her interiority, in fuzzy and out-of-date decorations are the assets that the artist puts forward in most of her artworks.