What Future for Art & Artists?

Selling via galleries, online, websites? Probably. But Immersive Art Events could be how to share one's art & be paid. As well as my own work I know artists who I'd put forward for this.


Catalogue 2024 & Index has a fraction of six thousand artworks I've created since the 1980's. I'm going to be bold & just say I want to part with all this art. So in 2025 I'm looking to an individual or a business who can purchase some or all, to introduce to a wider audience than I can.

Please look inside to glimpse what could become an Immersive experience -  Catalogue 2024


Fresco Painting in Italy  - This is a story of human history, myths, animals, plants & elements I want to fund to have painted by Italian artists.


 ANNOUNCEMENT - Limerick, Ireland.

Solo Exhibition, September, 2025.

Recent Ecclesiastical & Religious Works.

Talks, Demonstrations. Walks, Workshops.

Details end Feb 2025.

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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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    Procession Aligns

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    In Torment

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    Pray Prey

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    Scream Scream

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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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    From Small Embers Come Great Fires

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

                                                             : https://musaclio.com

I am absolutely delighted Adrian & Tiziana have invited me to give a week's tuition for beginners in Pen & Ink drawing at their beautiful Artists' & Writers' Retreat, 15k from the City of Lucca. See link above. This is a very special opportunity to acquire this life enhancing & expressive skill. In three thousand words I explain the schedule - available on request by email, see end. All materials included in the fee.

 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. .....

City of Bristol, my UK home & 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'
 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. 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?


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


For several years I've looked at religious art more than any other kind, but the compositions of many are complex & hard to understand, what do they mean, why were they made?


What would happen if pictures based on them were made on a large scale? What if people of all ages & backgrounds, from amateurs, professionals, students, beginners reworked traditional religious? Could it renew interest in the purpose of religion? The possibility of where this could 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 war photographers work in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq & Gaza.


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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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    Fairy Procession

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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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Landscape Painting

I love the Impressionists paintings - their subjects, colour & light always lift my spirits. Italy has my favourite landscapes, but I also love those of 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

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


I love the  James Hillman 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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