Bio

Mila Fae is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from Massachusetts. She has spent most of her adult life in pursuit of new experiences and inspirations, which has led her all over the northeast, from Maine to Philadelphia, and now Toronto.

Mila’s passion for the arts has been lifelong. Throughout childhood, she trained in classical and contemporary dance, such as ballet and pointe, tap, jazz, modern, and lyrical. In her free time, she was almost always painting, drawing, or writing. Her endless creativity became her escape from an unstable home life, and became her most important outlet for expression. Time cherished alone with her art supplies led her to the realization that art would always keep her fighting for a brighter and more colorful future.

Unfortunately, a series of painful events throughout the course of her childhood and adolescence slowly took her spark from her, and thus she found less and less energy for what she loved, art. The bombardment of traumatic experiences the has faced has left her with several chronic illnesses; she suffers from nerve pain, tremors, and chronic fatigue.

Her rediscovery of her art initially came about as a sort of physical therapy for these ailments, providing her with a long awaited relief from her pain. These physical challenges would have just as much of an impact on Mila’s art style. Learning to work around her limitations caused her to find a unique and fitting style; creating textures and experimenting with how light bounces off of each brush stroke to convey emotion and evoke thought.

While processing the trauma and pain of her life, she realized her true inspiration was simply women; the strength and inner beauty they possess, the ability to face a world that is already turning its nose up at them, experience unjust treatment, and still find a way to persist. This is what she has done her entire life, and realizing that, she also found her own strength and perseverance may just be the impetus all along.

A life driven by her promise to create has amassed a corpus of deeply personal drawings and paintings.

She creates art from a place of healing, cherishing women and what she perceives as femininity, and capturing the emotions that arise while doing so. Her biggest goal as an artist is to produce works that connect with other women, through shared pain, interests, and joys.