CATALOGUE 2026-27
This Catalogue is a distillation of 40 years work in 14 pages. It has an index & is available to collectors & art lovers wanting work based on a particular theme. Should you be interested in having even a small part of this vast collection please make contact via the portal at the end of the website. I trust Dale Hutchison who is highly skilled in all aspects of art management to assist, advise on any questions you may have. I entrust the business side to Dale while I spend time in Italy creating more art.
Above - An image which has haunted me all my life. 'Dog of Comfort & Protection' was first created in 1983. Dogs are the most loyal & protective of all animals to humans.
The art world is changing - art will be valued for meaning, content, beauty & narrative more than for money. If artists of all ages & experiences formed groups to support each other, to talk about art & how to connect with the public much would be achieved.
I'm working on two ideas -
One, that you can be an artist without going to art school.
The other, the reinvention of traditional Christian art for the present time.
'Only in the West does Art constantly change.'
All cultures create art - on walls, bodies, fabrics, ceramics, buildings using all kinds of materials, change happens only slowly. Only in the west does it change so often its hard to keep up with. Going from representational to abstract art & everything in between in just 100 years.
I'm influenced by art from the 10th to the 20th century. I love beauty, skill & narrative. I'm not religious but I find Christian religious art increasingly attractive & I know others do too. If artists experimented & incorporated it in their own work the result could be a unifying narrative. I accept many will disagree.
Computers, mobiles, websites, social media. AI have all our lives were affected. Is there a price for it's convenience & what will the long term effects be? 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.
There are at least three sides to my work - of nature & the landscapes around me, the imagination & the one which interprets what I observe of the world created by humans.
What is the imagination, what is it's purpose?
Imagination - Rather than draw what I see, I often kind of 'draw' my thoughts using imagination, memory & intuition.
The Human Body -
Is both fragile, strong, beautiful & ugly & can both repulse & attract.
Landscape - Italy is my favourite place but I also love the U.K., Spain & France. Buildings. It's sometimes said that buildings retain their histories. Medieval churches & cathedrals are built with great purpose, energy, hardship & faith. Their beauty still attracts & fascinates today.
Long term aim
- to see frescoes painted by U.K. & Italian artists in a modern story of human nature & the natural world.
DRAWING with a dip pen and ink is so expressive. It can be disobedient, blot & stall, but it's fun & rewarding when it works. It's also portable, inexpensive & only a few techniques are needed to begin.
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My response to the present chaos & confusion is by creating in my own work, contemporary versions of traditional Christian religious imagery in the hope it might encourage others.
Why is an Apparition hovering above a world bursting with pain?
The strangeness of a world turned upside down in 2026.
In the slide-bar are pictures, humans, strange beings, churches, opposing forces - dark-light, chaos-order, people, imagined forms.
A fantastical hybrid faces birds & is contrasted with a calm tonal painting of trees.
Two illustrated books on Amazon -
'The Year 2020, World in Chaos'
& 'Eclipse 2023'
Between 2020 & 2023 I drew 140 pictures in two large sketchbooks my observations about the Global Pandemic.
I used classical & modern images & each has a brief commentary.
Amazon Print £6.64. Kindle £1.65,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YEAR-2020-WORLD-Seventy-Drawings-ebook/dp/B0BR5R4MQQ/ref=sr_1_2?
In 2007, the year of his death I painted paintings about him & called this one 'Norman with Wings.' He made it possible for me to be in Italy drawing & painting ten years later in 2017.
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. Not a single war has been stopped by war art. I see it as caused not by those in the front line but by those far away from it, who plan, design, implement, manipulate & profit from it,
It's known 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
