CATALOGUE 2026
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 - Bagni di Lucca, Italy. Conte pencil, 2025.
Home Page Contents
Slide bars of a wide range of art.
Comments & about art & life.
Teaching is important in two sections.
Illustrations for a Fairy Story by Toots Malton.
Two books with 70 drawings each on Amazon.
Interviews with Rod & Inci Jones of Thought Row Podcast.
Video of Anti War Art.
Catalogues created by the Sasse Art Museum.
2026 could be better for art.
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. Change is possible.
Influences - Art from 10th to the 21st Century. I look & read about it & often incorporate it 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 deeply admire artists as far apart in time as Giotto from the early Renaissance to the Goya from the 16th century. I have different subjects & styles & concentrate on one until the visual possibilities are exhausted. Beauty is essential in the finished picture.
Questions, questions - are we drowning in technology? Most of us 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.
What is this Imagination as seen below which so influences my work?
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.
Landscapes, 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. .....
T E A C H I N G & Courses
I aim create an atmosphere that connects you to your own creativity.
In 2025 - for an 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. Seeing students achieve things they didn't think possible & empowering people 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.
2026
DATE FOR NEW COURSE
30th May - 6th June 2026
The ART BARN in Casale di Clio
Review of 2025 First Art Barn Week
We started at 9.30 on Monday morning, 30th of August.
- I began as though everyone was a beginner & suggest 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.
- I talk about art history, the value of looking at art, of copying, questioning - for e.g. what does 'like' mean & what is beauty?
- & I often repeat myself!
Achievements exceeded expectations thanks to the Art Barn's unique atmosphere.
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.
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.
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.
Videos of the Art Barn & of finished work by students in 2025 at Casale 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 face of hard metal, tiny, indistinct figures struggle to be. Second, a merry-go-round of ongoing confusion. Both from a larger picture on the effects of technology. 2025.
During Covid I published two books 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
