CATALOGUE 2026-27
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 - Dog of Comfort & Protection - dogs are probably the most loyal & protective of all animals to humans..
This website is mostly a visual experience, but it's also an opportunity to suggest two possible controversial ideas -
One that it's possible to be an artist without going to art school. Much debt will be avoided by not going.
Second - I want to suggest, & support a revival, reinvention of Christian Art which could be made without the religion.
There's nothing stopping young, & older artists forming groups & supporting each other & talking about how to connect with the public The art establishment is definitely changing - maybe the time will come where art is vlued for meaning, narrative, content & beauty more than money. Change is possible.
'Only in the West does Art constantly change.'
All cultures create art of some kind, on walls, bodies, buildings using all kinds of materials. It changes but usually slowly but in the west it changes so often its hard to keep up with it. In the last 100 years it's shifted from representational to abstract & everything in between. No one can know what the next thing will be but new developments in art will certainly happen.
My reason for drawing from art of the past is to convey something of it to art of the future. I'm not religious but my attraction to Christian religious art gives me the sense that if artists who wanted to, used it in their own work the result could be a much needed discovery, development of a unifying narrative. I accept many will disagree & that's ok. Art from the 10th to the 21st Century fascinates me for its skill, beauty & narrative, even if I don't understand it. In my own work beauty is essential whatever my subject or style.
Questions. Are we drowning in technology? We 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.
Where does Imagination come from? What is it for?
SUBJECTS and THEMES
Imagination
- Rather than draw what I see, I often kind of 'draw' my thoughts using imagination, memory & intuition.
The Human Body.
It's fragility, strength & beauty, can both repulse & attract. In health & sickness, joy, suffering & aging, it's witness to our life.
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.
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. .....
Free drawing class in Bagni di Lucca 2026.
Come & draw in an atmosphere that connects you to your own creativity.
2026 - July & August, all materials included every Thursday 6-7pm.
The Biblioteca where Puccini is said to have played.
A calm atmosphere encourages concentration,
The slide-bar above has drawings & paintings - of churches, opposing forces - dark-light, chaos-order, people, imagined forms, & more.
2025 & 2026. Two contrasting pictures - in one tiny indistinct figures struggle. The other is a muted oil painting of trees.
Two illustrated books on Amazon -
'The Year 2020, World in Chaos'
& 'Eclipse 2023'
Between 2020 & 2023 I drew pictures in large sketchbooks illustrating my thoughts about what was happening in the world of Politics.
I used classical & modern images for the seventy drawings in each book, & wrote a brief commentary for each picture. 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. 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
