About Mixa Painting
Biography
Michelle Gialanze, known professionally as Mixa, is a Maltese contemporary artist. Mixa’s artistic practice consists of finding beauty throughout her whole process of creation. Her focus is Beauty as a Process.
She turns to nature not only for inspiration, but also as a source of material. From broken earth, stone, and botanical sources, she creates opportunities for the depiction of life in both figurative and abstract paintings.
Her process consists of sourcing natural pigments for her paint and creating her own paper. She re-purposes all these materials into a final piece of art. At the heart of her work lies an understanding that beauty is not a fixed state or visual ideal, but a rebirth. A theme which is reflected in nature.
Therefore by observing nature, her inspiration, her work looks at each phase of life and translates this into her art. Sourcing materials from nature, Mixa continues to create work in a sustainable way as she works with care, awareness, and responsibility.
You’ll find that the topics of her work covers a wide array of topics, but a common denominator in all of her work is beauty as a process to be entered—broken, planted, and reborn. She examines order and collapse, grief and regeneration, permanence and erosion each phase offering the viewer a beauty of its own.
Michelle has exhibited internationally, including in Malta, France, Florence, Japan, and London and won a special Award at the Florence Biennale 2025.
Statement
“My artistic practice is deeply rooted in an intimate dialogue with nature, both as a source of material and as a conceptual framework. Through my work, I explore beauty in all its forms. It is a process which evolves through time."