{"title":"Elena Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/elena-miller\/elena-miller-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Miller is a Canadian abstract artist whose work explores transformation, emotion, and the unseen forces that shape the human experience. Her practice has evolved from traditional encaustic painting into a deeply experimental process she calls ART INTO ALCHEMY,  a meeting place of intuition, chemistry and spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Russia and immigrating to Canada as a teenager, Elena found refuge in the visual arts when language failed her. Drawing, photography, and sculpture became her first vocabulary, places of safety, expression and belonging. Creativity has always called her back, guiding her through many chapters of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Elena works with both traditional pigments and alchemical materials such as iron acetate, calcium hydroxide, wine, iodine, citric acid, and minerals. These reactive elements interact, shift, and evolve on the surface, creating forms that cannot be predicted or so much controlled. Each painting becomes its own living chemistry, an unfolding phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer work is rooted in transformation: the moment raw matter becomes something luminous, the threshold where emotion turns into form. Through layered textures, chemical reactions, and atmospheric movement, Elena invites viewers to witness both seen and the unseen and to see the quiet magic occurring beneath each surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer paintings are etherial yet grounded, intuitive yet elemental, offering a sense of mystery, depth and aliveness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Note: The ART INTO ALCHEMY body of work is currently in development. Selected works will be released and published on my website as the collection evolves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncaustic Collection: Inside my process\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis body of work represents an earlier chapter in my practice, rooted in encaustic painting, a medium made of beeswax and Damar resin. These paintings emerged from emotional expression, intuitive gesture, and a deep connection to music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach piece began with a playlist and a single anchoring song that shaped the creative flow. Working on birch panels, I layer wax, pigment and heat, creating surfaces that ranged from smooth and luminous to richly textured and tactile. Through the use of a shellac burn technique, I was able to form delicate lace-like patterns reminiscent of natural stone and organic formations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery artwork was named after a song that inspired me with its creation. The resulting works feel emotional, spontaneous, and alive, offering the viewers a sense of movement, depth and transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents the foundation of my visual language- a merging of intuition, play, material exploration, and the profound effect that music can have on our inner world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"moonlight-moth","title":"MOONLIGHT MOTH","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36x36\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis piece was named after a composition by Jordi Fornies, a visual artist and composer whose music stills the mind. When I listen to it, especially the piano, my breath slows. I close my eyes, and something in me softens. This painting evokes the same atmosphere. A fuzzy, ethereal moth in mid-flight, its delicate body drawn toward the moon. Moths navigate by moonlight, using its constant presence to orient themselves through the darkness. In that way, the moon becomes both guide and illusion. The varying shades of blue in this piece reflect the soft glow of a \"blue moon\"-  phenomenon that is, in truth, an optical illusion caused by ice crystals high in the atmosphere. The swooping lines mirror the moth's flight path: graceful, uncertain, yet unwavering in its devotion to that distant, glowing guide. This painting is about that gentle pull-toward light, toward longing, toward something beyond we can fully grasp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elena Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42204057501799,"sku":null,"price":1296.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1771448827_68024.jpg?v=1771524776"},{"product_id":"both-sides-now","title":"BOTH SIDES NOW","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60x40x1\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis etherial painting was inspired by the Joni Mitchell song \"Both Sides Now\". She wrote this song while flying, gazing out the window and watching clouds shift and transform-angel hair, ice cream castles in the air, and feathered canyons everywhere. Those opening lines have always stayed with me. To me, this song is about the importance of embracing life's paradoxes-the beauty and sorrow, the wins and losses, the giving and the taking. All of it weaves together into the fullness of the human experience.\r\u003cbr\u003eWith this painting, I wanted to capture the essence of those first few lines: the flow, the movement, the shapes of the clouds, and that innocence and childlike wonder that never fully leaves us, even as adults. 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It invites a listener to imagine the feeling of skating among the clouds, experience the expansion in the breath that one takes when they are not weighed down by heaviness of life. \r\u003cbr\u003eMy intention in this painting was to combine the weightless serenity of a \"Cloudskater\" with the vibrant, symbolic richness of greens- to speak to life, rebirth, and the heart chakra. \r\u003cbr\u003eMore than a visual piece, I wanted this to be a felt experience. 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Listening to this song feels like being thrown off a cliff into an ice-cold ocean, the shock is paralyzing. And yet, there's also a moment when you break through the surface, gasping, seeing the brand new foam glistening in the light. It's a moment of wanting, needing to believe that you CAN come out the other side.\r\u003cbr\u003eThis painting is about that plunge into shadow and the trembling hope of surfacing again. The rawness, the reckoning, and the fragile possibility of healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elena Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42204057698407,"sku":null,"price":1600.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1771444189_25896.jpg?v=1771524825"},{"product_id":"cornfield-chase","title":"CORNFIELD CHASE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e48x36x1\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting was inspired by the incredible piece Cornfield Chase by Hans Zimmer, used in the film \"Interstellar\". The music carries a beautiful contradiction - there's urgency and hope in it, but also wonder. The soaring melodies feel like an invitation to explore the unknown. It's powerful without demanding attention; it moves you quietly, with grace rather than volume.\r\u003cbr\u003eThat emotional tension between movement and stillness, hope and uncertainty is what I wanted to explore visually. The colours I used are ones I've seen in nature: soft yellows, layered greens, warm earth tones, and delicate webs of white shellac. The shellac, almost lace-like, reminded me of the spiderwebs and tiny threads insects leave behind in a field, something fragile yet enduring.\r\u003cbr\u003eAs a little girl, I once walked through a cornfield, and I remember the feeling of being swallowed by it, rows stretching endlessly, the path disappearing behind me. Without someone who knew the way, I could easily have felt lost. 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As I listened, I felt my body respond with that same fluid grace, vertebrae by vertebrae, like a quiet dance with time.\r\u003cbr\u003eThe music conjured the image of a temple wall, aged and softened by layers of moss clinging to plaster and stone. The first light of sunrise begins to warm its surface. At first, the wall is still cool from the night, but the sun's embrace gradually spreads across it-slowly, steadily, lovingly. I have always been drawn to age-to the beauty that time impresses upon a surface. In this painting, I explore that through layers. Each translucent veil of colour is like a whisper from the past. As you look closer, you catch glimpses of what came before-remnants of earlier forms and stories, still present beneath what has taken shape today. Time doesn't erase. 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Yet with in the fog, the mind strains to make sense of the shadows, reaching for patterns, filling in blanks, trying to recognize the unrecognizable. \r\u003cbr\u003eThe painting holds that suspended moment of helplessness, adrift in the haze, where the weight of pain is undeniable, yet the search for clarity begins to stir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elena Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42204058681447,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1771445226_68375.jpg?v=1771524868"},{"product_id":"into-the-mystic-2","title":"INTO THE MYSTIC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e40x60x1\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting is and exploration of journey, mystery, and surrender. Working in a monochromatic palette, I embraced fog, softened forms, and waxed over textures to evoke the sense of not fully knowing-mirroring the spiritual essence of Van Morrisons's \"Into the Mystic.\" There is no clear path, no defined edges; instead, the painting invites the viewer to linger in the space between clarity and uncertainty, where the journey itself becomes the point. \r\u003cbr\u003eIn it's final form, I noticed a serendipitous parallel with the album cover of the song, a subtle reminder that art, music, and life often converge in ways we cannot fully predict. 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There's a softness to it, but also a sense of emotional intensity-like the kind that leaves you dizzy. Smith once described the song capturing the feeling of hyperventilating, kissing, and fainting all at once-a rush of romance that overwhelms the senses. I wanted to paint that feeling.\r\u003cbr\u003eThe sky in this piece holds that emotion: a blue that feels almost watery, with soft bursts of cloud, like a mind flooded with feeling. A dizzy spell rendered in colour. That moment where the heart races faster than the mind can keep up, and everything-the sky, the light, the air feels like it's shimmering just a little beyond reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elena Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42204058943591,"sku":null,"price":1296.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1771445750_49434.jpg?v=1771524916"},{"product_id":"mystery-of-love","title":"MYSTERY OF LOVE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeeswax, damar resin, dry pigment and shellac on cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36x36x1\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting was named  after a song by Sufjan Stevens, he wrote it for the film called \"Call Me by Your Name\". This song speaks of loving deeply and the profound grief that follows when that love is lost. It holds both tenderness and sorrow, awe and ache.\r\u003cbr\u003eThe line and colours in this piece reflect that full emotional spectrum: the joy, amazement, and elation that love strikes straight into the heart, and the quiet devastation when that love fades or slips away. The surface is filled with delicate, intricate details-small miracles that mirror the moments we so often overlook in love, but which deserve to be celebrated. Like Sufjan's  lyrics suggest, the answer isn't to guard ourselves from love to avoid the pain. 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This piece carries the weight of heartbreak. The deep browns and earthy tones anchor the work, reminding us how grief and loss can bring us to our knees, pressing us back into the ground, back into the body, back into the raw soil of being. 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