The Innuit Gallery

R. Gary Miller

Gary is a Cayuga native. He was born on the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford, Ontario. Having spent several years in a residential school, the experience played a significant role in his decision to express himself through visual art. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Toronto. Gary resides and paints in Peterborough, Ontario.

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“I usually start a painting with the serene confidence of a preconceived vision and then an impulsive frenzy takes control and thick pastes of paint and gouges from my palette knife express the freedom of execution seen on the finished canvas. All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the process of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. I paint portraits with and without reference. I need reference for landscapes as they are random, out of control, peculiar, untamed, and natural. There is a time in life when you just take a walk and you walk into your own landscape.” R. Gary Miller.