Rob Miller artist

Rob Miller Lancashire Artist

For me, making a painting is like making a poem, both an expression of a feeling and an impression of a place; I prefer to work outside on location. My focus is the passage of light whether thats in the corner of a bright garden or high in the mountains under stormy skies. I try and portray the sublime in nature. In many cases this is governed by the passage of light. Working outside makes this a direct experience. This experience gets better when the painting was created initially on a walk.

In the studio depending on the nuances of the paint, techniques and application of colour my work finishes somewhere along a continuum between abstractions and figurative, each brush mark a part of each paintings arpeggio of colour.

I spend as much time as I can painting in Portugal and Spain. I like the international dimension that this brings into my work it creates emotional tensions and confronts my English traditions of style which I have to come to terms with in my own work.

My work is in private collections in Britain, Europe and in the USA. I did an Art Diploma at Bolton University gaining a distinction in painting and then I did an OU MA in the History of Art.

Rob Miller RSA

Galleries

Opus Gallery Ashbourne Derbyshire

Barefoot Gallery Boston Spa Leeds Yorkshire

Vermillion Gallery Knutsford Cheshire

Wendy J Levy Manchester

Artisan Fine Art Bolton Lancashire

Van Gestall Marbella Spain

9Ocre Montimor O Novo Portugal

Global art Barcelona

Longridge Gallery Lancashire

Water Street gallery Todmorden

Millyard Gallery Oldham

G1 Gallery Windermere

Articles

Art of England 2012,13

Art News 2012

Lancashire Life Mag artist of the month 2013

BBC Lancashire artists.

Lancashire Living Mag artist of the month 2014

Andalucia Life 2012

Bolton Evening News

Lancashire Telegraph

Longridge Gazette 2010

Jacksone London Art Blog 2016

The inspiration for my paintings, wherever I am comes from walking through the land, This provides me with a direct sense of place at a particular time of day or season; Each brush mark or line, I borrow from nature, wrought from an observation like a note or a word in a stanza; even a short walk can result, if everything is right, in a whole body of work almost as a poem or a meditation.

Rob Miller FRSA Falcon Mill Studios Bolton, Lancashire

"Rob Miller is a gifted, international artist and painter whose contemporary landscape paintings give the viewer a feeling of an eternal sense of place." Maria Petrik El mejor de Andalucia

"Rob Miller is a landscape artist; his paintings of the UK and Europe display a maturity and depth of understanding that set him apart from his peers" Phil Harwood Director Ascot Studios Gallery Lancashire

“There is a great depth of understanding of our world in his work which at the same time are extremely beautiful and enjoyable.”

Exhibitions

Out of the Blue. Bolton Lancashire. UK. 1999.

Into the Red. Bolton. 2001

Home and Gardens Chester 2008

North West Galleries Urbis Centre Manchester 2008

Marbella 1st International Festival Spain 2009

Porto Banus Marbella International Film Festival Spain 2009

Artisan Fine Art Gallery 2010

Brewery Arts Centre Kendal 2011

Northern Moods Artisan art gallery Bolton 2011

Salle Gerrard Philppe Paris Sur France 2011