Moreaux Mia

Mia Moreaux is a Belgian artist, born in Ostend in 1950. She is a sculptor (bronze, alabaster and marble) and painter (mixed media on canvas (oil, tempera, lead and flax)). She received her training at the Academy in Ostend, under the guidance of Boudens and Sorel, as well as at the Municipal Higher Institute in Ostend, under the guidance of G. Demeu, Velghe and H. Minnebo. She also took a course at the English watercolor school in Bruges and perfected her skills at the Schule des Sehens of O. Kokoschka. Her entire oeuvre is a hymn to the earth as a primal gift. She worked figuratively in batik technique for a long time and later also started painting in an expressionist visual language. From 1990 her paintings became abstract with attention to the subject matter. She expressed her inner emotion in it through a lyrical-abstract formal language. Her canvases also testify to her connection with the earth, the cosmos and space. Afterwards she also started working three-dimensionally with organic or graceful shapes cut from stone or marble. From the press: “The remarkable evolution in Mia Moreaux's recent work has not displaced the primal theme that was already present: the strong mother-child bond” and “Emphasisly present, the self-confident, sometimes challenging sensual female nude” and more recently: “In her paintings she not only describes the various rhythms of earth, soil and plants, but she is also always inclined to include the people in her canvases. Her sculptures express growth and a form of unfolding; they suggest something vegetable as much as something physical and thereby demonstrate a warm sense of aesthetics.” M. Moreaux received the A. Blomme Prize, the Kelle Prize, the Otto Wolf Prize, and the silver medal of the European Art Merit. She designed Awards for the Sanatorium in De Haan and the Business Award for Knokke. In 1975 she exhibited for the first time in Jabbeke, after which the whole of Belgium followed. As well as in several European countries and the United States. We find her monumental work in the cultural center in Oudenburg and around the Gothic church in Bekegem. We find her work in the Museum in Ostend, in the collection of the Belgian State and of various banks. She is listed in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists I, Artists and galleries 1998 (fourth edition, 2000), in BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)