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λ JOHN MILLER (BRITISH 1931-2002) ANEMONES II Oil on canvas Signed and titled (verso) 51 x 46cm (20 x 18 in.) Provenance: New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall Portland Gallery, London John Miller's artistic vision has become one of the most widely recognised of the twentieth century. Working from his Cornish studio with its magnificent views across the Hayle estuary to Godrevy Lighthouse, John painted his distinctive images of glowing beaches and deep blue skies, which are so widely recognised as to have become synonymous with the county of Cornwall itself. Miller's art occupies the space between figuration and abstraction. He described painting as "an exterior response to an interior vision", yet that reponse was usually rooted in the world around him. His paintings were usually concerned with specific sites and the emotions they generated held in tension with an inward contemplation informed by his religious convictions. In the 1970s and 1980s Miller travelled a great deal around the Mediterranean. There he became fascinated by the strong sunlight that renders shadows as intensely dark as the light is bright. These experiences loosened his brushwork and brought a new intensity of colour to his paintings of Cornwall. In 1995 he moved from Sancreed to Lelant and he is perhaps best known for his paintings inspired by early morning walks along the beach at Port Kidney. He developed a personal symbolism during the period, in which the sun became a symbol for the renewal of life, and the moonrise associated with the death of his mother. During this period his paintings were perhaps at their most inward looking and visionary.