Bérénice Milon

Bérénice Milon is a visual artist and illustrator originally from the suburbs of Paris and now based in Belgium. Shaped by a strong culture of art, literature and visual storytelling, her way of thinking through images has developed across illustration, painting, publishing, murals and volume-based work, moving fluidly between commissioned projects and more open, personal explorations.

Her works always originate in her notebook, where she sketches ideas, symbols and narrative directions before moving into more resolved compositions. This early phase, which she describes as a form of graphic “purging”, is essential to her process. From there, images are frequently constructed like collages, bringing together archetypal shapes, fragments and references drawn from extensive iconographic research. “My work is always a dialogue between images, symbols and storytelling,” Bérénice explains, allowing each project to unfold across different formats and find its own rhythm.

Visual Grammar

Narrative lies at the core of Bérénice’s work. She is drawn to mythology, personal symbolism and archival images, as well as to the way stories quietly surface through everyday forms. Lately, her practice has been shaped by ideas of displacement, both physical and emotional, in connection with her upcoming residency in India and the development of her first poetry book. “I’m interested in building quiet, strange worlds that invite viewers to project their own narratives,” she explains.

Colour functions as a deliberate constraint rather than an expressive excess. Working with restricted palettes, she layers and superimposes forms to create depth, tension and unexpected relationships. “Constraint is something that nourishes my creativity,” she notes. This balance between limitation and freedom gives her compositions their distinctive clarity and symbolic charge, inviting viewers into worlds that remain open to interpretation.