Mia Bergeron’s interest in art was cultivated early on, beginning with continuous exposure to visual works through her parents’ graphic design firm in New York City.  As a high school student, Mia pursued the arts both at the curricular and extracurricular levels, and in 1998 she was admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design.  After a year of intensive foundation courses, she decided to leave RISD to pursue a more challenging painting program.

Between 2002-2005, Mia was a student of classical painting at the Charles H. Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy.  The Charles H. Cecil Studio is a small private painting atelier primarily focused on the naturalistic tradition of such artists as Van Dyck, Velasquez, and John Singer Sargent.  Among her various artistic ventures, Mia has focused on charcoal cast, portrait and figure drawing, oil painting, portrait sculpting, copies of old master paintings, and most recently, figures in landscapes.  During her time at the Charles H. Cecil Studio, she also taught portrait painting and drawing to beginner and advanced art students.

Her primary focus is portrait painting.  According to Mia, it is “one of the few subjects in art that has maintained a certain truth to the natural world while still serving as a great means of expression.”  In the near future, she hopes to explore the visual possibilities of scenes of daily life outdoors.