Melissa Scott-Miller NEAC RBA RP
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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.
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Methodology
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!
Bio
1959 Born in London, 17 July
1977-81 BA Honours (First Class) Slade School of Fine Art
1991-08 Teaching at Heatherleys
1999 Elected RP
2007 Elected NEAC
2008 Elected RP Secretary
Scholarships, Awards, Prizes
2018 Dry Red Press Award, NEAC
2018 People’s Choice Award at the Lynn Painter-Stainers, First Prize
2008 Oakham Gallery Prize, NEAC
2008 Lynn Painter-Stainers
1992 The Lucy Morrison Award, Royal Overseas League
1988 Second Prize, The South Bank Picture Show
1985 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship
1981 The Rodney Byrne Scholarship
1980 The Audrey Wykeham Prize
1979 The Lord Leighton