Nick Miller
Nick Miller was born in London and studied Development Studies at University of East Anglia, Norwich. He moved to Ireland in 1984 and now lives and works in Sligo. As an artist he is something of a maverick and oscillates between many genres and media. He is more than adept in drawing, watercolour, oil and can create both portraiture and landscape to a high standard. His style is best described as ‘honest’ and his portraits do not aim to flatter his sitters. Miller often offers a psychological element to his portraiture, reminiscent of Lucien Freud (1922-2011) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992). He travels around the countryside in his studio on wheels - a modified electrician’s truck - which allows him paint from life producing similarly frank, unromantic landscapes.
He paints in an impasto manner not unlike Vincent Van Gogh (1853- 1890) and Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), though with a palette more mute and less ardent. Though he grew up in the Irish landscape, he attaches no sentimentality to it and approaches both people and nature with a candour now distinctive to his work.
He is an elected member of Aosdána since 2001. Among his achievements he won the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Prize in 2014. He is in a number of notable and public collections in Ireland, United Kingdom and Europe.
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He paints in an impasto manner not unlike Vincent Van Gogh (1853- 1890) and Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), though with a palette more mute and less ardent. Though he grew up in the Irish landscape, he attaches no sentimentality to it and approaches both people and nature with a candour now distinctive to his work.
He is an elected member of Aosdána since 2001. Among his achievements he won the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Prize in 2014. He is in a number of notable and public collections in Ireland, United Kingdom and Europe.
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