James Miller

Miller studied at the Glasgow school of art and later in Paris. During the First World War, Miller sketched the war damage of Glasgow. His work shows a similarity to that of fellow Scot James Ferrier Pryde, who also painted bombed out buildings; both theirwork has a sense of allure and combined with an unsttling quality. There is also something of John Piper’s nocturnal magic that Miller uses to capture the peaceful yet disquieting ambience of Venice after dark.

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Miller travelled extensively abroad and made the architecture of major European cities his main subject matter,  before eventually settling on the isle of skye. Miller exhibited over a hundred works at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1921 and 1987, the year he died, and also exhibited extensively at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Examples of his work are in the collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Bradford Museums and Galleries, City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow Museums. He was a member of the Glasgow Art Club

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