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                 Welcome to this website!

I want this to be an enjoyable visual experience. First is the special online catalogue & index revealing a fraction of six thousand artworks. It's purpose is to realise an ambitious project - to paint on the walls of a building in Italy, frescos narrating human history, myths, animals, plants, dreams, & much more. I have the preparatory drawings from which to work in collaboration with Italian & U.K. artists. To financially support this, the contents of my studio are now available to purchase.

To know, understand more, please look inside the catalogue!

 The First Pen & Ink Drawing Course took place in July 2024 in Italy & was more popular than expected. When arranged, details of others will be posted 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. .....

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol U.K.

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.

'The Year 2020 World in Chaos'


The seventy one drawings & commentary in this book were my response to the Pandemic beginning in 2020.
Instead of drawing consciously constructed pictures, I experimented & let the images emerge themselves. The result is a combination of classical & modern images woven into a narrative reflecting the myriad of emotions generated by the pandemic. There are tense moments but the story ends on a hopeful note. 



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To Purchase -
Amazon Print £6.64. Kindle £1.65,

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


Empowering people is important to me - this year, 2024 in July I gave a pen & ink drawing course in the Biblioteca in Bagni di Lucca in Italy. I'm looking forward to doing more.


My own work is influenced by the work of artists from the 10th to the 21st Century. I have learnt so much by both travelling to see their work & by looking at it in books. Copying & adapting plays a large part, especially when drawing.


'Images of War' - War causes unimaginable physical & emotional pain, suffering & madness, yet we do it again & again. The misleading by the government to invade Iraq in 2003 motivated me to paint over 50 oil paintings & a 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 subjects, colour & light of the Impressionist painters. I've painted in the U.K., France, Spain but Italy is my favourite.

             Buildings

Buildings hold the history & stories of how they were built. Only an enormous energy could create such cathedrals & churches. The hardship must have been terrible, but the triumph incredible when completed.

           The Human Body

We live our lives through our bodies. It's fragility, tenacity, beauty & ugliness is endlessly fascinating.

          The Imagination

From the 1980's until circa 2016 l worked almost entirely from direct observation, now narrative & imagination are a greater influence.

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I often think about James Hillman's words - '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 of Italy, Spain, France & Bristol 1989 - 2024

'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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A few of the illustrations to Toots Malton's 'English Village Fairy Story'

I had the pleasure to be interviewed 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


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 few exceptions, all pictures are available. if you would like to own one, please contact me, am sure we can make an arrangement to suit us both.

07773 259713
deenaghmiller@gmail.com
Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

I aim to respond within 24 hours

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