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Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA

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Joey and Adam

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Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA
Oil
100 x 100 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

Cordelia

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Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA
Oil
61 x 76 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018

Adam and Marsell, his Friend since Nursery School

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Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA
Oil
100 x 100 cm
Related exhibition:
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018
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About Melissa Scott-Miller RP NEAC RBA

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Melissa Scott-Miller paints mainly urban landscapes, specialising in London where she was born and still lives. She also paints interiors and portraits of people in their surroundings. She is fascinated by light and pattern and texture, particularly on bricks and slates of London buildings and the flora and fauna found in city gardens and parks.She is fascinated in detail and in the effects of nature on man-made structures, but also wishes to portray an emotional relationship she has with London's streets, where she has lived as a child, an artist and a mother and a dog owner. She likes to concentrate very deeply and feels that she is walking on a tightrope when she works.

Method of Working

Melissa likes to work outside, whatever the time of year, and sometimes from windows, where she can paint larger views. Often favouring unusual viewpoints and with close ups of bricks and leaves in the foreground. She paints with very small brushes, five '0's so that she can draw with the paint and fills in areas as if embroidering, putting great care and attention into each section and generally not going back to it. She favours old Holland oil paint and ready prepared linen canvasses which are light and easy to carry. She draws for several hours in charcoal first, fixing it before painting. She uses a Mabef field easel and puts it in a shopping trolley, carrying the wet painting through crowds of commuters on the tube, being careful not to get any paint on anyone!

Biographical Details

Born in London, 17th July, 1959.

BA honours first class Slade school of fine art 77-81.

1999 elected RP.

2007 elected NEAC.

1991-08 teaching at heatherleys

2008 elected secretary R.P.

Society Memberships

New English Art Club
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2012    Runner Up, Lynn painter Stainers prize

2010   Oakham Gallery Prize, The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition

2009   Painter Stainers Prize, The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition

2008   First Prize, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize

1987   Second Prize, South Bank Picture Show, RFS

1982   Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship

1981   Rodney Byrne Scholarship, prize for figurative painting at the Slade

1979   Lord Leighton prize

Exhibitions

Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2019
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2018
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2018

Other exhibitions

2015   Go-Figurative, Hampstead

2007   Mark Jason gallery

1995   Grosvenor gallery

1993   Royal Overseas League

1987   Albemarle gallery

1983   Acquavella gallery, New York, U.S.A

1980 to 2015  The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Five times at the BP portrait exhibition, National Portrait gallery

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

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