Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bristol's many public gardens & parks are tree filled places where people can sit, picknic, play, rest ....
The trees, shrubs, plants & flowers provide an all year round visual delight to all who enter these places,
The question - what is art & what is an artist continually absorbs me. Why paint & draw, scuplt & create all day? Does it matter & what does it mean?
Whether we know it or not, all art affects our mood and states of mind.
Psychology & the workings of my own mind & that of others drive much of my images, I relate to artists from before the 10th to the 21st centuries,
'Images of War - Unimaginable pain, madness, yet we do it again & again. Between 2000 & 2010 I painted 50 oil paintings of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza. There's a short video at the end.
The Book -'THE YEAR 2020 WORLD IN CHAOS'. My response to the pandemic was seventy drawings. The slidebar has some, but the printed version doesn't yet reflect the quality of the originals.
Link to see & purchase the book -
Amazon Print £6.64. Kindle £1.65,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YEAR-2020-WORLD-Seventy-Drawings-ebook/dp/B0BR5R4MQQ/ref=sr_1_2?
Landscape Painting
The Impressionists love of light & colour continue to influence my landscape painting. Italy is my favourite place.
Buildings
Buildings hold stories of how & why they were built. When drawing one I often think of the men & the work they put into the building of it .
The Imagination
In the 1980's when I started painting I worked from direct observation, but over time the imagination has become increasingly influential.
All religions have contributed to human development, & all have contributed great art which has stood the test of time for hundreds if not thousands of years.
'An English Village Fairy Tale'
On the last day of October 2021 the doorbell rang unexpectedly. Maggie who I hadn't seen for ages. had a copy of the book she often spoke of writing - a fairy story of her happy childhood in a famous West Country village......& she wanted me to illustrate it!
I had the pleasure to be interviewed with Linda Winter by John Brantingham of the Sasse Museum in California in 2022 - below is the audio.
Norman Rickard. Love of my life. April 4 1952 - 2007.
Most paintings here are of children, distressed, wounded or dead & may be hard to look at. They are from the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza. Between 2001 - 2015 I made approx 50 oil paintings & 100 drawings to raise funds for victims of the wars, including soldiers.
The pity is few people are aware most wars could be avoided by diplomacy, but sadly governments are rarely interested in that,
People with influence working on, in social media.
An interview with Rod & Inci Jones, creators of Thoughtrow Podcast in 2019 significantly increased my online visibiity . Through them I met Gene Sasse, founder of the Sasse Museum of Art, California. Gene designed a beautiful online atalogue of my work.
Sasse Museum website
https://alexandrasasse.com/
Benedict Hadley & Sixtine Crutchfield both promote art. Sixtine represents contemporary artists with NFT's on Wisekey Art. Benedict is committed to art in deprived comminities.
https://www.benedicthadley.com/
NFT's, Catalogues,Talks & Publications
https://view.publitas.com/inland-empire-museum-of-art/4_artists_from_the-uk_-_their_stories/page/1
https://view.publitas.com/inland-empire-museum-of-art/the-art-of-deenagh-miller/page/1
https://thoughtrow.com/blogs/news/tagged/episode-49-deenagh-miller-art
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YEAR-2020-WORLD-Seventy-Drawings-ebook/dp/B0BR5R4MQQ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=deenagh+miller&qid=1675093990&s=digital-text&sr=1-2
April 27, 2022 - first
NFT - a non-fungible token, hosted by WiseArt.click here to see