CATALOGUE 2025
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.
Home Page Contents
Examples of subjects & styles of four decades.
As a teacher, facilitator for beginners & professionals.
Thoughts & observations about art & life.
Illustrations for a Fairy Story by Toots Malton.
Two books with 70 drawings each on Amazon.
The New Subject - the impact of technology on humans.
Interviews with Rod & Inci Jones & Linda Winter with John Brantingham.
Video of Anti War Art.
Slide-bars of my work.
Catalogues created by the Sasse Art Museum
A Distant Dream - to see Italian & UK artists paint frescoes about the glories of nature, the folly, strength & fragility of humans.
2026 could be good for art. I believe a sense of purpose not felt for a while could reappear, where artists form groups to support each other & connect with the public. The art establishment discovers new ways to deliver art to collectors & create a new dawn where art is valued for beauty & meaning more than money. It may be idealistic, but you never know...
My work & ideas are informed by -
Art from 10th to the 21st Century. I've travelled to see it, looked at it in books, & often incorporated it into my own work. I look at religious art for stories & complex compositions which can be hard to understand, but are fascinating for their skill & beauty.
I speculate about people of all ages & backgrounds - amateurs, professionals, students, beginners reworking traditional religious images as seen in churches, books, online etc. Could it renew interest in the purpose of religion? I'd like discussion with other artists & non artists about it.
I see humanity as almost drowning in technology. Nearly all of us are constantly on computers & mobiles, in the street, on public transport, in bars, restaurants, at home.
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.
Oil paintings, pastels & watercolours of the U.K. France, Spain and Italy.
The Imagination influences in my work. But what is it exactly?
Main Subjects
Landscape
I love the Impressionists paintings for their colour & light & everyday subjects. Italy is my favourite place but I also love the U.K., Spain & France.
Buildings
Buildings house their histories. Building medieval churches & cathedrals required enormous energy & purpose. The hardship would have been terrible, but when completed the triumph must have been incredible.
The Human Body
We live life through our bodies. The fragility, tenacity, beauty & ugliness of it never cease to amaze me.
The Imagination
l now work more from the imagination & create narratives based on the foibles, fantasies, realities of how humans behave.
I like James Hillman's line - 'We are lived by Powers we don't understand.'
ART & Religion
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.
When teaching I aim create an atmosphere that connects you to your own creativity.
In 2024 & 2025 we had a free class every Thursday for an hour or so. It included all materials & ran for nearly four months. I couldn't have done it without my son Peter as assistant, as least 15 people came every week. It was so successful that I'll do it for as many years as possible. I love seeing students achieve things they didn't think possible - empowering people is important to me - I hope to do more in 2026.
Students at work in 2025 in the Biblioteca in Bagni di Lucca.
The Biblioteca, Bagni di Lucca, May, June, July 2025
I discovered much talent for drawing this year & I'm determined to discover more!
The Art Barn in Casale Clio was the location for the first art course
August 30 - 6 Sept 2025.
Achievements exceeded expectations.
We began on 30th August Monday morning at 9.30.....
- I approached the class as though everyone is a beginner & start by suggesting using just pen & ink - which if you're not sure about what to draw can help you decide. It can also enhance hand, eye, brain coordination. - & I always encourage questions.
- As people worked they developed a sense of purpose & style. Individuals in a group,
- I emphasise the value of art history & of looking at art, of copying, questioning - like what does 'like' mean & what is beauty?
- I spoke a lot & repeated myself often...
The Art Barn is a splendid location - the week was a resounding success.......
Dip pen and ink is so portable
2025 Summer Course. Drawing broken crockery, frequently found in gardens here. I love it & save it for people to draw.
The table was covered in art materials, books, organic stuff, a ram's skull, jugs, books, broken crockery, leaves, gloves, online images
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. .....
Videos of the Art Barn & of finished work by three students from the Summer Course 2025 at Casale Clio, Bagni di Lucca, Italy.
Above is a slide-bar with drawings & paintings - of church buildings, interpretations of religious images, of opposing forces - dark-light, chaos-order, good-evil etc.
In August 2025 I drew 20 pictures of Ponte Serraglio. Most were day views, but this is by night.
Two books are published 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 by combining classical & modern images in a narrative reflecting events & emotions it generated, There are tense moments, but it ends on a positive note. It's controversial places & so may 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?
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.
INTERVIEW - I had the pleasure of speaking with Linda Winter by John Brantingham of the Sasse Museum in California in 2022 - the audio is below.
love, loss, life
romance from another time & place
TRUE LOVE & ROMANCE. 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.
Sixtine Crutchfield
Morena Guarenaschelli
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
