MICHELLE MILIČEVIĆ

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Michelle Miličević

Fine Artist

“My family got our first boat in the ’90s, when I was a small child. I don’t remember the drive up to the Okanagan to pick it up, or even the test run on the lake — but I do remember sitting on the swim platform, my legs dangling in the warm water. It was quiet, no one else around. The moment was meditative. I will never forget that feeling of being one with the water. THAT is the essence of what I aim to capture in my art.”

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The One Water Art Series

“When I sit on the shore and look out at the water — all I can think about it how i'd prefer to be out there want to riding it.”

For Painter from Canada's West Coast, Michelle Miličević, That urge — to leave the edge behind and step into vastness — defines both her life and her art.

Living between the mainland and Vancouver Island, Michelle’s world is shaped by oceans, lakes, and skies.

As a boater, wakeboarder, wake-skater, wake-surfer, seaplane and heli-jet passenger, she paints not the shoreline, but the rare perspective of being immersed in open water.

For Michelle, that is the ultimate reward: “Every time I return to the deep open water, I’m reminded why I paint — to share that euphoric sense of belonging, of being part of something infinite.”

What she calls “humanity connected” #ONEWATERART

The Studio

Home Based

Between raising a baby boy, guiding two teenagers, and chasing after a lively family dog, Michelle’s world rarely slows down. Yet in those rare slow moments — when everyone is cared for — she slips into her home studio, where brushstrokes turn chaos into calm. Her sanctuary is not separate from her family life; it flows with it. Every canvas carries the pulse of both art and home, the balance of devotion and creation.

For Michelle, painting is more than escape — it is how she transforms fleeting moments into something lasting, how she translates love, rhythm, and stillness into works that invite others to feel the same sense of presence.

Multimedia Process

With a background in photography and graphic design, Michelle’s paintings begin with a photograph she captures while out on the open water, always from the perspective of a boat.

From there, she uses Photoshop to carefully plan her execution — experimenting with colour palettes and designing a digital mock-up before paint ever touches the canvas.

Each work begins with an underpainting in archival acrylics, followed by multiple layers of the finest quality oil paints, building depth, luminosity and finally bold texture.

The Pallet

Michelle always gravitates toward earth tones, finding grounding and resonance in their warmth. She says "Terracotta is my love language" — a hue she returns to for its balance of strength and softness.

These tones anchor her work while allowing the vibrant colours of the sea and sky to unfold around them. She finds that the ocean offers endless variations of deep blues, greens, and purples — hues that shift with light and motion — which combine seamlessly with the yellows, reds, and oranges of a sunrise.

The Subject

Michelle calls them sun rises, never sunsets, because to her each rise represents the potential of a new days fresh start. Her subject is not the shoreline, but the perspective of deep water — a view that evokes connection, linking body, humanity, and universe as one.

When Michelle completed her first underpainting and saw her vision come alive on the canvas, tears streamed down her face. In that moment, she understood that her subject was never just water — it was the profound experience of immersion, of unity, of belonging to something infinite. Every painting since carries that truth, and the chance to place that feeling into another person’s space — and move them just the same, remains the greatest reward of her work.

Michelle's Current
Featured Piece

Original Work___________________________ xOne

Eyelash Extensions ______________ $90

Acrylic & oil on canvas

Full Size Canvas Prints_______ xTen

Lash Lift Including Tint _________ $110

Gallery-wrapped giclée on archival, UV-resistant linen canvas. 48 inches by 36 inches with a 1.5-inch depth

Paper Prints__________________________xFifty

Lower Lash Tint __________________ $30

Museum-quality giclée on archival, UV-resistant paper (custom sizes available)

Exhibition

Collectors List

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Michelle Miličević’s ongoing solo exhibition at The Feature Wall Gallery reveals new works one at a time. No schedule. No warning. Each release arrives in its own rhythm. The only way to see them first? Join the Collectors List for exclusive first-look access.

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Secure acquisition rights before the open market ever sees it. Each release includes one original, ten full-size limited edition canvas prints, and fifty museum-quality paper prints in the size of your choice. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

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Enter the Movement

More than an exhibition, this is One Water Art — a living movement. As part of the Collectors Circle, you don’t just collect art, you help shape the legacy.