ROB MILLER FINE ART
Rob Miller Painting a commission
Every mood, every moment, every state of mind becomes a part of a commission. Do you have a favourite place that holds a special meaning, for you, your family, friends or colleagues. A peaceful corner, memory of a walk or scramble, to be active or where you can simple be. Commissioning a painting large or small is a process that can bring you closer to a place you enjoy through creative thinking, reflection and making.
Engage with the creative process
A kaleidoscope of colour, inlets, skerries and clouds sweep across the Loch
Commission 1
The Derwentwater Fells Triptych
Lingholm is the large estate and house on the West shore of Derwentwater. It was the holiday home home where Beatrice Potter spent seven summer holidays and where she wrote and illustrated many off her famous children's stories including Peter Rabbit. Later Lord Rochdale transformed the site into its current form of a Victorian mansion. The house now a grade 2 listed building has recently been purchased and is being refurbished and restored by the Seymour family under the enthusiastic leadership of David Seymour.
The Stone Room is a large ornate oak panelled room with huge mullion windows and a fire place of Italian blue sandstone
Below preliminary sketches and paintings.
Commission size 2 x 15 metres
Commission 2
Burnt Edge Smithills Country Park
Commissioned by The Sutcliffe family. Focussing on the West Pennine Moors a favourite place for the families walks the Burnt Moor Commission made using oils on a large solo, portrait canvas 2 metres by 1,5 metres. The work was specially made on canvas to be presented in a large space in a contemporary, converted, Engine room in a historic 19th Century Cotton Mill. The focus of the work was the area of interchange between the high Winter Hill Moorland and high pastures, Smithills Moor and Burnt Moor. The main vision was the amazing view from the Moor of the Mersey basin. The narrative, the contrast between the wild open space of nature and its towering cumulo nimbus clouds that dominate the vast Mersey basin and the man made sprawl of Bolton and Greater Manchester Below - oil and pen sketches.
Commission size 1.4 x 3 metres
Commission 3
Coast. Portuairk Ardnamurchan
Commissioned by the Grant family. Portuarik has a special place in the familial ties of the family with this wild and wonderful coast. Measuring over a metres square the scene captures the rock pools explored and the feeling of space on the Ardnamurchan peninsular. Oil on canvas.
Seascape paintings have been coveted by collectors for centuries, and today, they continue to be one of the most popular subjects on the market. “Their popularity is attributed to many reasons: they speak a common language, they celebrate the majesty of the natural world, and they often are simply beautiful,” says Joshua Eldred, President of Eldred’s. American and European Paintings Dept Eldreds Auction House Boston.
A little bit about how a commission may work
- Art and commissions are about process
- Most commission's start with people having a special landscape or seascape place that they love.
- In general the commission starts with initial conversations and exploring ideas.
- From this I do a place visit and produce a few drawings or watercolours which we look at.
- The next stage depends on the size of the commission, the sketch drawings are worked up into larger pieces in oils and or acrylics watercolours
- If we happy at the beginning of this stage I ask for a third deposit. and work up sketches and paintings on location if possible.
- We take a look at these models and from them the larger piece is made.
- I try to do as much work outdoors or using materials from location but everything is negotiable.
- I send you updates or we arrange a meeting,
- Payments on completion not delivery.
- I can assist with framing but I find framers are much better at advice, prices and such than I am.
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"I get inspired and collect the material for my paintings simply by walking in the land. I like to be and work outdoors as a landscape painter it educates my balance between reality and abstraction."