Miles Toland
Miles Toland’s surreal paintings capture the mysterious places we visit between sleeping and waking. He invites the viewer into this liminal space by blending familiar elements of our objective world with ethereal textures and geometric patterns. Miles approaches his art as a practice of bringing resistance into resonance, honoring the beauty in decay, and finding wisdom in nature’s forms.
Miles has a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he first began doing live paintings at festivals, and traveling around the world creating street art in places including Paris, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Mexico, and Canada. His mural series at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times blog. Another one of his murals in India was readapted to be featured as the artwork in the second season of the AMC show Better Call Saul.
Serendipity Arts Festival
st+art india foundation x asian paints, Panjim, 2018
The in cosmic mandala style of MIles Toland is the depiction of an old, gentle woman, who is a kaki from the Panjim Market, because of her kind eyes and wisdom wrikles, on the verge of saying something, almost breaking into a smile.Miles first painted the circular Mandala through which the portrait of a lady emerged.
Serendipity Arts Festival
st+art India Foundation x asian paints, Panjim, 2018
Miles along with other street artists like Amitabh Kumar, Daku, Anpu Varkey created for the ‘Guerrilla Residency Project’ aimed at revitalizing six abandoned shops in a dilapidated area of Panjim to draw a frame around the constant battle between nature and urbanisation.
Mahim (E) Art District
Mumbai, 2018
