Background

John Miller was born in London in 1931, and spent most of his adult life in Penzance.

Career

Miller began his career in church architecture, but soon moved to a different form of art. Many of his paintings reflect his travels abroad to places as far afield as Venice and Goa. John Miller’s paintings were also influenced by his deep spiritual beliefs. He lived in West Cornwall with partner Michael Truscott from the late nineteen fifties until his death in 2002.

In 1989, John published an autobiography, “Leave Tomorrow Behind”. Several other books have also been published about this artist. He died in 2002. John Miller’s work is currently (2004-5) the subject of academic investigation by a postgraduate student at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. John Miller's works are currently (2009) viewable and sold at New Craftsman gallery in St.Ives.

Achievements

• John's work as a contemporary landscape artist is known particularly for the blues and yellows of sky, sand and sea, and has become popular in the form of posters, cards and even CD covers. His posters have even appeared on film and television sets. Much of his inspiration was drawn from the Cornish scenery.
  
  John Miller, a household name in Cornwall since the mid-1970s, is an artist whose work continues to have an extremely high public profile, both in the UK and internationally. In a 2003 survey (for the periodical 'Art Business Today') of 200 United Kingdom high street gallery owners whose businesses specialised in posters and popular art reproductions, Miller was listed alongside Monet and L.S. Lowry among the ‘top-four’ best-selling landscape artists and fifth - above Van Gogh (7th), Picasso (8th), and Matisse (10th) - in a list of the current ‘top-ten’ best-selling deceased artists in all genres.

Works

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  • Sunrise of Wonder VI

  • Porthkidney with Passing Yacht

  • Beach No. 3

  • Summer Haze

  • Beach

  • Cornish Beach

  • venice

  • View from St. Giorgio Marina

  • majorcan House

  • Estuary III

  • Beach

  • Sunrise of Wonder

  • Towards the Bay

  • The Camponile and Doges Palace, Venice

  • Autumn Estuary

  • West Penwith Summer Landscape

  • Lelant Sea Movement

  • Shoreline

  • Asven Beach, Goa

  • Evening Beach

  • Summer Beach I

  • Paraportian I

  • Autumn Trees

  • Algarve Farm

  • Algarve Landscape

  • Blue Horizon

  • Moroccan Kasbah

  • Late Summer Landscape

  • Sunrise of Wonder VIII

  • Heat and Dust

  • Farm in Tuscany

  • Tropical Beach

  • Lord The Sea Is So Big

  • Horizon II

  • Autumn Day Beach

  • Casa do Rio Beach, Goa

  • Estuary I

  • Santa Maria Della Salute

  • Beach with Palm

  • Beach

  • Trevorrian Sancreed Farm

  • Moonoverthebay

  • Sunrise

  • Beach - Goa

  • Penwith Beach

  • Morjim Beach, Goa

  • Windsurfers, Porth Kidney Beach II

  • Yellow Chair

  • Goan Beach

  • Yacht Passing the Terrace

  • My Boat Is So Small

  • Autumn Sunrise

  • Beach

  • Off Coco Beach, Goa

  • Porth Kidney Beach

  • Beach

  • Estuary

  • Spring in Portugal

  • The Canticle of St Francis on Lelant Beach

  • Anjuna Beach, Goa

  • Celtic Coastline

  • Beach

  • Calangute Beach

  • Coconut Beach

  • Midsummer Day

  • Tresco

  • Porthkidney Beach

  • Corfu

  • Sunrise of Wonder V

  • Godrevy Lighthouse

  • Hayle Towans Beach

  • Beach

  • Coco Beach, Goa

  • Cornish Riviera

  • Spring Sandspur

  • Horizon

  • Figure on Beach

  • Castle Wraith

  • Venice Light

  • Interior Landscape Mauve

  • Lelant Sandbar X

  • Lelant Beach, New Moon

Membership

He became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 1961. In 1964, he was elected to the Royal Society of Arts.

Connections

Friend:

Michael Truscott

References

• Another Shade of Blue
• John Miller
• The Magic of Miller: A Celebration
• Seeing is Believing