Miles Hyman - Solstices

About the book Solstices

With Solstices, Miles Hyman brings together for the first time his entire body of paintings — some 150 works — to offer us a comprehensive journey through his pictorial universe. Internationally renowned for his comic books, book covers, and highly cinematic illustrations, the artist reveals here the most personal dimension of his work.

As much a painter as a storyteller, Hyman explores in his paintings the light, the shadows, the silences, and those suspended moments that characterize his graphic sensibility. Each canvas evokes a story, a scene left unseen, a mystery. His mastery of composition, inherited from his work in comics and illustration, lends these images a rare narrative power.

Solstices stands out as a major art book: a total immersion in the imagination of an artist whose brushstrokes illuminate every composition. Connoisseurs will recognize his elegant, subdued aesthetic; others will discover a painter of unique sensibility, straddling the line between realism, dreamlike imagery, and cinema.

An essential volume for enthusiasts of contemporary art and visual storytelling, and for anyone wishing to explore the work of an author-illustrator who has become an international figure.

About the artist Miles Hyman

An illustrator, painter, and comic book artist, Miles Hyman trained in fine arts, first in the United States and then in France, developing a distinctive style — one that blends realistic precision, cinematic atmospheres, and a keen sense of visual storytelling. Renowned for his book covers, illustrations for international publications, and literary adaptations (Luis Sepúlveda, Shirley Jackson, Jim Thomson…) — notably The Black Dahlia (from James Ellroy) — he simultaneously pursues a distinguished career as a painter, where light, silence, and dramatic tension create an instantly recognizable world. Based between Paris and the United States, he is today considered one of the most distinctive graphic voices of his generation.