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Artist Statement

Art is exploring and learning, knowing more intimately my world, both inner and outer. Art is satisfaction, taking pleasure in the fluid motion of my hand as it draws a line. The "hand of the artist" is very important to me.

I am primarily interested in landscape painting, especially plein air painting. My paintings express my deep connection to the land, formed when I was a child running around in the hills of what is now Point Reyes National Seashore. They are a conversation with the land, a response to a call. The call might be the formal relationships among hills, trees and sky, the light shining on water, or the subtle colors of a rainy winter day. I respond with a sense of being captured by the land, a sense of deep pleasure in what I see in front of me. My response grows and develops as I draw and paint.

From time to time, my outrage at the needless suffering caused by the insane behavior of our leaders becomes unbearable and overflows into a painting or collage.

Biography

I wanted to be an artist when I was very young, and drew a lot, but there was little exposure to art and few opportunities for instruction. When I finished engineering school I took art classes for a while, but the gap between my aspirations and my skills overwhelmed me. After wandering many years in a creative desert, Art grabbed me by the throat and would not be denied. I started taking classes wherever I could find them and haven’t stopped drawing and painting since. I follow the advice of Apelles of Cos (painter to Alexander the Great), “no day without a line.”

Teachers who have inspired me include Joan Finton, Connie Smith-Siegel, Larry Robinson, Glenn Hirsch, and Jane Rosen.

David M. Miller

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