MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER
MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER
RBA RP NEAC
CHRIS BEETLES GALLERY
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ISBN 978-1-914906-07-7
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A Chris Beetles Ltd Publication
Design by Pascale Oakley
Photography by Alper Goldenberg
Reproduction by www.cast2create.com
Colour separation and printing by Geoff Neal Litho Limited
Front cover:
Autumn, Islington back gardens. Autumn 2022 [2]
Front endpaper:
View of Regent’s Canal, back of Noel Rd [6]
Frontispiece:
Melissa Scott-Miller painting in St James’s Square, February 2023
Title page:
Canonbury Square [17]
This page:
Islington back garden view on frosty mornings [detail of 9]
Page 27:
Melissa Scott-Miller painting in St James’s Square, February 2023
Back endpaper: View from Tower Bridge walkway, looking east [11]
Back cover:
Autumn sunlight on the Regent’s canal, Islington [5]
MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER
Melissa Scott-Miller RBA RP NEAC (born 1959)
Melissa Scott-Miller is an acclaimed painter of meticulously detailed urban landscapes and portraits of people in their surroundings.
Melissa Scott-Miller grew up in Kensington, London, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She was taught by Anthony Green, Lucian Freud, and Je rey Camp; who said of her work:
“A child prodigy is rare in music or mathematics but very rare in painting. For Melissa, the picture comes whole, erasure and overpainting seem unnecessary. The visible world is easily grasped. The multiple components are handled with the assurance of a virtuoso.”
Melissa has won numerous accolades from the Slade, including prizes judged by Carel Weight, whom she admires greatly to this day.
Since graduating in 1981 with a rst class degree, Melissa has shown work at numerous galleries and with such leading exhibiting societies as the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, and the New English Art Club. Her urban landscapes focus on the London streets she frequents, with the ability to keenly observe detail as both artist and local.
Melissa’s portraits have been exhibited ve times at the National Gallery as part of the annual Portrait Award. She has held solo shows across the UK at the Albemarle Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Mark Jason Gallery, and most recently the Twenty Twenty Gallery in Ludlow. She has also held solo exhibitions in America at the Acquavella in New York, and the Cross Gate Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky.
Melissa has received numerous awards including the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize in 2008. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club.
Melissa now teaches at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London, and the Royal Drawing School.
“There is a subtlety and a frisson in these paintings that transcends both the application of the paint and the image on the canvas. It is a sense of time, the sense of a moment held. Like the disquiet of déjà vu, what we are shown a ects us on two levels. Initially it is a nely observed and executed view – a tree, a door, a railway cutting – images that are familiar and comfortable but appear simultaneously to be imbued with a drama or a foreboding that is barely implied. Perhaps the drama is occurring just outside the frame or maybe we are being shown the stage after or before the performance.
This ability to imply great emotional force above and beyond the temporal image within a gurative narrative genre is a rare talent of real genius.”
A A Gill (art critic, journalist and author)
Early Autumn
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated 2022 on reverse Oil on linen 24 x 30 inches
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View of the Regent’s Canal looking toward the Angel, Islington
Autumn, Islington back gardens
Autumn 2022
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed and inscribed with title on reverse
Oil on linen 39 ¾ x 39 ¼ inches
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Signed with initials and dated 23
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘January 2023’ on reverse Oil on canvas 12 x 31 ½ inches
4 (below)
Late Autumn
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Signed, inscribed with title and dated 2022 on reverse Oil on linen 20 x 30 inches
3 (above) Little Venice, view of Brownings PoolAutumn sunlight on the Regent’s Canal, Islington
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘October 22’ on reverse Oil on linen
x 31 ½ inches
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6 (above)
View of Regent’s Canal, back of Noel Rd
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘Dec 2022/Jan 23’ on reverse Oil on linen
20 x 30 ¼ inches
7 (opposite)
View of backs of houses and to the city beyond
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Signed, inscribed with title and dated 2022 on reverse Oil on linen
40 x 30 inches
8 The street where I live in Islington December Snow 2022 Signed with initials and dated 22 Signed twice and inscribed with title on reverse Oil on linen 19 ½ x 19 ½ inches
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Islington back garden view on frosty mornings
Signed with initials and dated 2023
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘Jan 2023’ on reverse
Oil on linen
31 ½ x 31 ½ inches
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View of Chelsea Wharf
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘August 2022’ on reverse Oil on canvas 12 x 10 inches
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View from Tower Bridge Walkway, looking east
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘August 22’ on reverse Oil on canvas 15 ¾ x 31 ¼ inches
View from Tower Bridge Walkway, looking west on rainy days
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘July 2022’ on reverse
Oil on canvas
20 x 23 ¾ inches
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Signed with initials and dated 22
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘Sept 2022’ on reverse Oil on linen
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View from underneath Blackfriars Bridge
23 ½ x 31 ½ inches
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘August 2022’ on reverse Oil on linen 20 x 19 ½ inches
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View of Tower Bridge from Bermondsey
Great Russell Street corner
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Signed, inscribed with title and dated 2022 on reverse Oil on linen
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Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘October 2022’ on reverse
Oil on linen
19 ½ x 19 ½ inches
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Signed with initials and dated 22
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘November 2022’ on reverse
Oil on canvas
16 x 31 ¼ inches
16 (right)
Wet Passage Way, Covent Garden
(below)
Canonbury Square
18 View of Queen’s Street, Mayfair Signed with initials and dated 22 Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘December 2022’ on reverse Oil on linen 20 x 24 inches
View of early blossoming cherry tree in Queen’s Street Mayfair
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘November/Dec 2022’ on reverse
Oil on linen
20 x 23 ½ inches
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20 (left)
View from Central St. Giles rainy day
Signed with initials
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘January 2023’ on reverse Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches
21 (below)
View of Smith eld
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Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated 2023 on reverse Oil on canvas 15 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
Signed with initials and dated 2023
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘Jan 2023’ on reverse Oil on linen 23 ½ x 23 ½ inches
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View of Sir John Soane’s Museum in January Sunlight
Mount Street Gardens, Mayfair
Early Spring
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated 2022 on reverse
Oil on linen 19 ½ x 27 ¼ inches
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Holland Park Rose Garden
Signed with initials and dated 2022
Signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘June 2022’ on reverse Oil on linen 16 x 19 ½ inches
The Garden of the Actor’s Church
Signed with initials and dated 22
Signed twice, inscribed with title and dated ‘September/October 2022’ on reverse
Oil on canvas
20 x 27 ½ inches
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