Catalogue 2026

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 - Church of the Mind. 2024.

About this website -

 I want this website to be a visual experience where the pictures make the impression. However I want to make two points arrived by observing thinking, reading & by making pictures.

One is that it's possible to be an artist without going to art school.

Second is a personal idea, vision about the reinvention of Christian religious art.


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.'

I incorporate art from 10th to the 21st Century into my work. I find religious stories fascinating even if I cant always understand them. Their skill & beauty can mesmerise, & even influence one's own work. Artists from Giotto to the early Renaissance & beyond have influenced mine. Beauty is essential whatever my subject or style.


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 fragility, strength & beauty, can both repulse & attract. In health & sickness, joy, suffering & aging, it's witness to our life.

Landscape. 

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. Medieval churches & cathedrals are built with great purpose, energy, hardship & faith. Their beauty still attracts & 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.   .....

 Free drawing class in Bagni di Lucca 2026.

 Come & draw in an atmosphere that connects you to your own creativity.

2026 - July & August, all materials included every Thursday 6-7pm.

The Biblioteca where Puccini is said to have played.

A painting of birds and flowers on a white background.

A calm atmosphere encourages concentration,

A painting of birds and flowers on a white background.
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  • An Old Friend

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    A Modern Trinity

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  • LOOKING UP, LOOKING DOWN.

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    Dissolving Reality

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    Lament Lament.

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    Whirlwind

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    Synthesis

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  • Dreaming the World

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    Sleeping Giants

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    A Volcano Erupts

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    The World Turns

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    Pray Prey

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    Bridging  the Other Side

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    Through the Arch

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    Building the Future

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    A Grand Nave

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    Lightening Strikes

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    Tectonic Plates Reform

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    The Window Holds

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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 on Amazon -

'The Year 2020, World in Chaos'

 & 'Eclipse 2023'
 Between 2020 & 2023 I drew pictures in large sketchbooks illustrating my thoughts about what was happening in the world of Politics.
I used classical & modern images for the seventy drawings in each book, & wrote a brief commentary for each picture. They could be subject to censorship.



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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!







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Some illustrations for 'English Village Fairy Story' by Toots Malton.

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     Watcher in the Sky

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    Who Hears?

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    Headmistress

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    Grand Jury

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    Birds Galore

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    Monkey Dance

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    Sky Sight

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    Warm Witch

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    Stages of Life

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    Real Myths Never Die

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    Telling the Time

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    Stand Alone

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    Trapped in Lines

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    A Smile Dreams

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    Landscape of the Mind

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    Made Up

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     A Favourite Dog

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    Protection

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    Joseph & Donkey

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    Vision of Italy

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    Shell Journey

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    A Piercing Vision

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    A Red & Yellow Christmas

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    From Behind the Curtain

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    Gateway to Italy

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    Dog of Comfort

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    Party Time.

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    The Three Kings

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    Looking Forward

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    Fly Me to The Sun

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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. 

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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. Not a single war has been stopped by war art. I see it as caused, not by those in the front line, but by those far away from it, who plan, design, implement, manipulate & profit from it,

It's known that diplomacy could prevent many wars, but sadly governments are rarely interested in that.

with a few exceptions, all pictures are available. if you would like one, please contact me.

07773 259713
deenaghmiller@gmail.com
Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

I aim to respond within 24 hours