John Miller

John Miller was born in London in 1931. Following National Service and a brief spell in the theater, films and television, he studied architecture and was articled to the church architects, Milner and Craze. He went to West Cornwall in the mid-fifties to measure the screen in St. Buryan Church for an exam and returned to live and paint there in 1958 with his lifelong friend, Michael Truscott, potter, photographer and conservationist. They traveled in a 1937 Austin Seven with twenty seven pounds between them. In 1961, he was elected to membership of the Newlyn Society of Artists for a number of years during the sixties and seventies and planned the first modernization of the Gallery in 1968. A solo exhibition in Penzance in 1974 brought his work before a wider public and he began to show in London, New York, Vancouver and countries in Europe. In 1992, he was invited by Robert and Lucy Dorrien Smith to paint on the island of Tresco, Isle of Sicily, which led him into the Beach Paintings. After thirty one years living and painting in Sancreed in the heart of the Penwith peninsula, he acquired a beach studio on the Hayle estuary at Lelant near St. Ives and a former Victorian church school in Penzance which he and Michael Truscott have converted into joint studios.

John Miller Images:
April Fishing
Coastal Way
Corfu
Endless Day
Evening Beach
Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives
Lelant Mauve
May Estuary
Quiet Inlet
Summer Estuary
Summer Sandbar
Sunshade and Lighthouse
Venetian Interlude
Yacht Passing