Melissa Scott-Miller NEAC RBA RP

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

• 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.

Memberships

Melissa Scott-Miller is a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists.

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

• 2008 Oakham Gallery prize NEAC1992 The Lucy Morrison Award – Royal Overseas League

• 2008 was when I won the Lynn painter stainers ( not 2009)2018 won the Dry Red Press award at NEAC 2018 won the people’s choice award at the Lynn Painter-Stainers , first prize

• 1988 Second Prize, The South Bank Picture Show

• 1985 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship

• 1981 The Rodney Byrne Scholarship

• 1980 The Audrey Wykeham Prize

• 1979 The Lord Leighton