ARTIST PROFILE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennifer Miles
Mixed media
I completed an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and worked in the field for many years. Then a few years ago, I decided to indulge my passion for painting animals full time. Inspired by Japanese art and golden age illustrators, I paint animals wild and domestic, ones I see locally in Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as creatures from far, far away. Unashamedly decorative, I use pigment heavy watercolour and acrylic and high carat gold and platinum leaf, with fine technical pen for detail. I choose the frames carefully, sometimes buying antiques from charity shops and flea markets and creating pieces to fit them.
FEATURED ARTWORKS
Nightingale
Watercolour and pen
20×20 cm unframed, 29×29 cm framed
Long-tailed Tits and Blackthorn
Watercolour, pen, caplain gold leaf in a restored vintage frame
40 cm framed
Summer Swallow
Lapis lazuli pigment, watercolour, pen, 24 carat gold leaf in a vintage oak frame
40 cm framed
Robin & Rowan
Drypoint etching hand finished with watercolour and 24 carat gold leaf in a restored vintage frame
35 x 29 cm framed
Pluck (Jay)
Drypoint etching hand finished with watercolour and 23.75 carat gold leaf
27x27cm unframed, 33x33cm framed