Les Miller
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Below the Edge
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Calypso's Pool
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Flood Plain
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Guardian Cloud
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Landform Marker
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Last of the Mist
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Motherwell Horizon
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Orange Coastcloud
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Towards Dungeness
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Wet Summmer Dale
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I was brought up in the north east of England and studied Fine Art in Edinburgh from 1964 to 1970 before moving south. I live and work in north Bedfordshire where I share a studio with Jan Kilcoyne.
Although I have worked from a wide range of sources during my life, I have always been involved with those problems concerning that conflict between the 3-dimensional world and the flat surface of the canvas that occupied artists from the end of the 19th century through much of the last century.
The result is that I ease between abstraction and figuration, exploring ambiguities of space and the discrepancies and uncertainties that arise from suggestion rather than description. Work evolves through experiment and an acceptance of the accidental as it deals with the ongoing processes of painting and the synthesis between medium and idea.
In tackling the traditional underlying problems of expression and aesthetics I enjoy making deliberate references, exploit influences and often search for alternative outcomes to existing work.
Over the last few years I have been drawn once more to our landscape heritage and although my work may be concerned with a particular place or subject, it is intended to be neither specific nor didactic, allowing viewers to make their own reading.
Visitors are most welcome to our studio where we have a wide range of art including larger work than is normally shown in the gallery.
Although I have worked from a wide range of sources during my life, I have always been involved with those problems concerning that conflict between the 3-dimensional world and the flat surface of the canvas that occupied artists from the end of the 19th century through much of the last century.
The result is that I ease between abstraction and figuration, exploring ambiguities of space and the discrepancies and uncertainties that arise from suggestion rather than description. Work evolves through experiment and an acceptance of the accidental as it deals with the ongoing processes of painting and the synthesis between medium and idea.
In tackling the traditional underlying problems of expression and aesthetics I enjoy making deliberate references, exploit influences and often search for alternative outcomes to existing work.
Over the last few years I have been drawn once more to our landscape heritage and although my work may be concerned with a particular place or subject, it is intended to be neither specific nor didactic, allowing viewers to make their own reading.
Visitors are most welcome to our studio where we have a wide range of art including larger work than is normally shown in the gallery.
