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
Frankfurt Open Germany2011
Chelsea London Open 2011
Vendas Novo Portugal 2012
9Ocre Evora Portugal 2012
Van Gestall Marbella Spain 2012
Buy Art Fair Manchester 2012, 2013
Galeria 9 Ocre Evora Portugal 2013.2014,2015,
Vendas Novas Lisboa Portugal 2013.2014,
Brick Lane London 2013
International Art Café Badajoz Spain 2014
Almada Open Exhibition Lisboa Portugal 2014
Sine Dubio Exhibition Windermere 2014
Micro gallery International Lisboa Portugal. 2015
Art on the Farm Lancaster 2015
Places Waterstreet Gallery Todmorden 2016
Small works Waterstreet gallery Todmorden 2016
Longridge Gallery 2016
Picture House Padiham 2016-17
Open Exhibition Millyard 2016-17
FMAS Manchester 2017
Incite Macclesfield Art Lounge 2017
