Alain Mieg



Home About the artist Alain Mieg Resume Pictures Exhibitions Press & News Gallery Large Formats and Commissioned Work Links Contact		"For me, the sky symbolizes freedom and a yearning for life. An addiction to which I submit and surrender, melancholy a constant friend at my side."




		Passions Alain Mieg's greatest passion is painting, the main element of his life. He finds it extremely important not to focus on reality, but to abstract and become engrossed and get lost in landscapes and horizons. The essential thing is to disperse or eliminate disturbing elements. These landscapes accompany dreams and bring them to life with their serenity. "If viewers can recognize themselves in my paintings, if they feel at ease and understood, and have found a place they can escape to, then I am content." Home and work Alain Mieg works and lives in an atelier in the building in Lenzburg where he spent most of his childhood: his grandparents' house. It had always been his dream to settle down in this place, back to his roots, because of the flow of energy and power and the positive vibrations there. Techniques and influences From aquarelle, Alain Mieg moved to gouache, oil and acrylic paint. For the past 10 years, he has been working primarily with acrylics. Further development through the production of colours with pigments and emulsions. Early influences were his artistic surroundings and painters such as Cézanne, Monet, Bonnard, Gunther Böhmer, William Turner, Rothko and, in his younger years, Peter Mieg. Although there are more traditional representations of landscapes in his older paintings, his style has been maturing over the years to reduction and elimination of details. Alain Mieg's reverie landscapes, reduced to the essentials, focus on the theme of horizons and the alliance of earth and sky. Characteristic for his paintings are the harmonic choice of colours and fine nuances. The sense of depth that Alain Mieg's pictures give us arises layer by layer over time. Through the use of acrylics, almost countless coats of paint can be added without a picture seeming overloaded. Alain Mieg knows how to apply colour to achieve a subtle effect. In his pictures, he is always searching for vastness and infinity. He has developed a sensitivity to invisible but perceptible things and uses it when putting his impressions down on canvas. His paintings are the result of an inward-growing process: impressions of journeys are recorded and collected in small sketches. Fantasy pictures and sketches wait patiently in Alain Mieg's mind until they combine in dreams to form a complete picture. Colours become associated with depth, odours and music before flowing together on canvas. His paintings are not the representation of a specific place. They allow viewers to use their fantasy. Alain Mieg does not want to restrict viewers but at the same time demands that they invest energy to become engrossed in his pictures. His paintings need time and space to develop their true intensity and reveal themselves. The pictures offer serenity when viewers trust them and begin to really see and understand them. The longer they are viewed, the more new aspects and impressions emerge: cloud shapes seem to move and change with the incidence of light and different angles. Alain Mieg presents reverie landscapes filled with soul and warmth which allow room for interpretation and a view of an apparently distant world.