Past & Present Work & Future Projects

Catalogue 2024 & the Index show a fraction of six thousand artworks created since the 1980's. I am now looking for someone, or a business, who can purchase some or all & market them to a wider audience than I can. The proceeds will support an ambitious project in Italy - Fresco paintings narrating human history, stories, myths, human anatomy, physical & psychological, plants, elements, animals, & more. Preparatory drawings are done, but Frescoes can only be completed by a team - of a few UK artists, but mostly Italian ones, & their master plasterers, craftsmen & builders.

To know more, click Catalogue 2024

The other sections show the various subjects which dominate my work in pictures from the 1980's to the present.

 PEN & INK DRAWING in Tuscany, Italy, 10 - 17 May 2025 at Casale di Clio

                                                             : https://musaclio.com

I am absolutely delighted to be invited by Adrian & Tiziana to give a week tuition in Pen & Ink drawing for beginners at their beautiful Artists' & Writers' Retreat in the Tuscan hills above Bagni di Lucca, 15k from Lucca, see in link above. This is a very special opportunity for beginners to acquire this life enhancing & expressive skill. I have prepared a detailed, fifteen hundred word document about the daily schedule. All materials are included. For a copy of this & the fee, please email me via the link at the end of this website.

 JULY 2024 - PEN & INK DRAWING  - Bibleoteca, Bagni di Lucca, Italy saw the first Pen & Ink Class. It was extremely popular & dates for 2025 will be found here.

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. .....

My U.K. home - City of Bristol & it's famous Suspension Bridge.

Bristol City is my home. As well as beautiful architecture, it has 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.

Two Books Published on Amazon -

'The Year 2020, World in Chaos' & 'Eclipse 2023'
 Both have seventy-one drawings & commentary & were my response to the Pandemic beginning in 2020.
I experimented with a combination of classical & modern images in a narrative reflecting the events & emotions generated by the pandemic. There are tense moments, but it ends on a positive note. Because it is controversial in places it may be subject to censorship. I like to think not, but am not confident at the present time. 



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If you'd like to buy them & I hope you do, here is a link - 
Amazon Print £6.64. Kindle £1.65,

https://www.amazon.co.uk/YEAR-2020-WORLD-Seventy-Drawings-ebook/dp/B0BR5R4MQQ/ref=sr_1_2?


Art from 10th century Romanesque sculptures to 21st Century Expressionists influence my work. I've travelled to see it, looked endlessly at it in books, & frequently adapted & incorporated it in my own work; especially in drawings.


Stories, ideas, & themes dominate my work. I do paint & draw places & landscapes, but increasingly I'm drawn to narratives & stories in religious art. The compositions of many religious paintings are complex & hard to understand - but what if religious pictures were made contemporary? How would that look? What would be the result if many people made religious art based on old images? I'd like to see this done by people of all ages & backgrounds, from amateurs, professionals, students, beginners & community groups. Reworking traditional religious images might renew interest in the purpose of religion. The idea of where this may lead fascinates me & I welcome discussion with other artists & non artists alike about it.




'Images of War' - War causes unimaginable physical & emotional pain, suffering & madness, yet we do it again & again. The government misleadingly invading Iraq in 2003 was the motivation for 50 oil paintings & at least one hundred drawings. I based them on photographs taken by war photographers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria & Gaza.


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    Images from the imagination

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Landscape Painting

I love the Impressionists paintings - their subjects, colour & light always lift my spirits. Italy is my favourite place to paint, but I also love the landscapes of the U.K., Spain & France.

Buildings

All buildings hold the history & stories of how they were built. Building medieval churches & cathedrals required enormous energy & stamina. The hardship must have been terrible, but the triumph incredible when completed.

The Human Body

We live life through our bodies. The contradictory fragility, tenacity, beauty & ugliness of the body never cease to amaze me.

The Imagination

Until recently l worked almost entirely from direct observation. Now, the, imagination, stories & narratives are more important - in particular ecclesiastical art. Is it to balance the increasing AI & tech in an over materialised world?


I love James Hillman's line - 'We are lived by Powers we don't understand.'



Landscape gallery below →,

The Fantastic & the Imagination are never far from my mind or work

View gallery →



 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.


 My interpretation of religious art →


LANDSCAPES, 1989 - 2024. Italy, Spain, France & Bristol.

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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Selected illustrations to Toots Malton's 'English Village Fairy Story'

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

War Paintings 2003-15

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, hoping to raise awareness & funds for victims of war, including soldiers but it's never enough. In my observation war is 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 most wars could be avoided by diplomacy, but sadly governments are rarely interested in that.

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Acknowledgements -

Rod & Inci Jones

Gene Sasse 

Sixtine Crutchfield

Benedict Hadley 

Morena Guarenaschelli



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

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