CATALOGUE 2026-27
This Catalogue is very important to me - it's a distillation of 40 years work in 14 pages with an index. I am offering it to collectors & lovers of art as a complete collection or in parts because I want to spend time on new projects in Italy & all the 6000 drawings & paintings are in the U.K. I am sure the new owner will be very pleased, to have a rich & varied history of pictures to enjoy, analyse & share with others in whatever mode is chosen.
Above - Trees. Oil painting 2026
'Looking back I see what is before me'
Contents, Home Page -
Slide bars of a wide range of art.
Comments & about art & life.
Teaching - new courses for 2026
Illustrations for a Fairy Story by Toots Malton.
Two books each with 70 drawings on Amazon.
Interviews with Rod & Inci Jones of Thought Row Podcast.
Anti War Video, and Catalogues created by The Sasse Museum.
2026-2027 -
a feeling of purpose not felt for a while could be building, artists consider new ways of supporting each other & connecting with the public. The art establishment considers anew how to deliver art to collectors & create a new dawn where art is valued for beauty & meaning more than money. Change is possible.
'Looking back I see what is before me.'
Art from 10th to the 21st Century is incorporated into my work. I look at religious art for stories & complex compositions. They may be hard to understand, but are fascinating for their skill & beauty. I admire artists from Giotto to the early Renaissance & beyond. I have different subjects & styles & concentrate on one until I'm exhausted. Beauty is essential.
Questions. Are we drowning in technology? We are constantly on computers & mobiles, in the street, on public transport, in bars, restaurants, at home. What is the role of an artist today? Do we need censorship? Is modern art ugly?
What is beauty?
What has happened to the Soul?
Photograph by James Koch
City of Bristol, my UK home & it's famous Suspension Bridge.
This oil painting was made circa 1994. it's an outstanding entrance to a city & I never tire of looking at the bridge which appears to hang in the sky at night.
Bristol City is my home. It has much beautiful architecture and many tree filled public parks & gardens where people can sit, picknick, play, relax, look up & watch the world go by.
Detail from the painting of Bristol Suspension Bridge. The light & atmosphere constantly changes & I never tire of seeing it. Oil on canvas.1994. 70 x 66 cm.
Below are paintings, pastels & watercolours of the U.K. France, Spain and Italy.
Where does Imagination come from? What is it for? Where is it going?
SUBJECTS and THEMES
Imagination - Rather than draw what I see, I often kind of 'draw' my thoughts & insights using imagination, memory & intuition, based on the observed world.
The Human Body.
It's multitude of qualities, of fragility, strength & beauty, can both repulse & attract. In health & sickness, joy, suffering & aging, it's witness to our life.
Landscape. Places, Buildings.
Italy is my favourite place but I also love the U.K., Spain & France. Buildings hold their histories. It's said that buildings retain their histories. Those of medieval churches & cathedrals, built with great purpose, energy, hardship, faith & beauty still attract & fascinate people today.
A Distant Dream
- to see frescoes painted by U.K. & Italian artists in a modern story of human nature & the natural world.
My hand drawing, oil painting of Spanish papier mache heads.
DRAWING, drawing & more drawing in dip pen and ink - it's so expressive.
Dip Pen & Ink is portable, inexpensive & only a few techniques are needed to start - if you've never done it before, just dip the pen in the ink & practise by drawing letters, numbers, or simple objects. .....
Teaching & Courses
Creating an atmosphere that connects you to your own creativity.
In 2025 - one hour a week, on Thursday, for three months we had a free class, all materials included. It wouldn't have happened without my son Peter as assistant, as least 15 people came every week. People achieved things they didn't think possible, that is important.
The Biblioteca where the Pen & Ink class was held & where Puccini is said to have played.
Students concentrating hard on drawing. I observed much talent this year & I'm sure there is more.
Two new dates for 2026 at Casale di Clio, Tuscany, Italy.
Saturday 30th May - 6th June
Saturday 29th August - 5th September
Come and experience the calm and creativity of this beautiful place.
Below is the link to the 2026 drawing & painting course at the beautiful retreat of Casale di Clio in the village of Vetteglia in the hills in Tuscany. We look forward to welcoming you.
https://musaclio.com/small-group-art-course-in-tuscany/
Review of 2025 First Art Barn Week
We started at 9.30 on Monday morning, 30th of August.
- we start the week using just pen & ink, if you aren't sure about what to draw it can help you decide. It can also enhance eye, brain coordination. I always encourage questions.
- As the week progresses a sense of purpose & style emerges. Individuals in a group.
- we talk about art history, the looking at art, of copying, questioning - for e.g. what does 'like' mean & what is beauty?
Achievements exceeded expectations.
I suggest Dip pen and ink because it's portable & inexpensive, which matters if you're beginning. It's also very expressive & versatile in terms of subjects & styles.
Discovering an unexpected skill in drawing houses.
The concentration & controlled chaos of creation! Just after 9.30am - important to get some solid work done at the beginning of the week.
Below - Art Barn & of finished work by students in 2025 at Casale di Clio.
The slide-bar above has drawings & paintings - of churches, opposing forces - dark-light, chaos-order, people, imagined forms, & more.
The two pictures below - in the first, tiny indistinct figures struggle to be. Contrast, second a calm & muted painting of trees. The first drawn in 2025, the second painted in 2026.
Two illustrated books now on Amazon -
'The Year 2020, World in Chaos'
& 'Eclipse 2023'
My response to the 2020 Pandemic were two books, each with seventy-one drawings & a brief commentary.
I experimented with classical & modern images in a narrative reflecting tense moments, however it ends on a positive note. Being controversial in places they could be subject to censorship.
Amazon Print £6.64. Kindle £1.65,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YEAR-2020-WORLD-Seventy-Drawings-ebook/dp/B0BR5R4MQQ/ref=sr_1_2?
FAIRY STORY ILLUSTRATION -
'An English Village Fairy Tale' by Toots Malton.
I hadn't seen Maggie for so long, but on the last day of October 2021 she suddenly arrived, book in hand, saying she'd finally finished the fairy story of her happy childhood in a famous West Country village, & she wanted me to illustrate it!
Some illustrations for 'English Village Fairy Story' by Toots Malton.
Click on Listen to Podcast for an interview in 2021 with Inci & Rod Jones
'Norman with Wings.' One of a series of oil paintings I made in the year after his death in 2007.
NORMaN LOVED BIRDS, candle-lit dinner parties, music & CHRISTMAS.
Norman Rickard, love of my life. We were the same age, born on the same day, at the same time, April 4 1952. He died on May 7th 2007.
The Consequences of war
Images of War 2003-15. 50 paintings & over 100 drawings
50.000 children were killed in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. I painted distressed, wounded, orphaned and dead babies and children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Gaza, to raise awareness & funds for victims of war, including soldiers but it's never enough. I see war caused, not by those in the front line, but by those far away from it, who plan, design, implement, manipulate & profit from it,
The pity is few people know that diplomacy could prevent many wars, but sadly governments are rarely interested in that.
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
