Artist Statement    Biography

Welcome to my Wave Over Wave web site. The phrase is from a Newfoundland sea chanty which caught my ear years back: "I've been the world over, north, south, east and west, but the middle of nowhere's where I like it best, where it's wave over wave, sea over bow..."

Please email me if you would like to see my work: jemiller@mindspring.com

My studio is in downtown Hillsborough, NC. Once a month, February through November, I open the studio to the public, during the “Last Fridays” arts celebration, last Friday of the month, from 6-9 p.m. Part of the Hillsborough Artists Cooperative (formed in 1992), my studio is upstairs over Tupelo’s Restaurant, corner of N. Churton and W. King streets, diagonally across from the historic courthouse.

On weekends, I teach private art lessons in my studio, and occasional local workshops.

I have been painting locally as well as at several locations along the James River and on the Chesapeake Bay, with my artist sister Leslie “Deede” Miller of Annapolis.
http://lesliemillervisualarts.com/

From August 27 through mid-October, the lovely Churton Street Gallery in downtown Hillsborough will host an exhibition of my paintings. This “Country Soul” show includes work from the Capt. John S. Pope farm in Cedar Grove and other local and Virginia sites, and some larger work. Here is the statement for the show:

“I’m a country soul.”

I grew up on Bogue Sound at the end of a long sandy road in Carteret County, North Carolina, surrounded by farmers and fishers. Today I live on a dirt road in Orange County, in a small house that was originally built as a hunting cabin; I’ve been there 30 years.

I’ve painted all over this area, on the Eno, New Hope Creek, Duke Forest, Cedar Grove, Jordan Lake, Cane Creek, and for the past four years at state and national parks in Virginia (where I meet my Annapolis-based artist/sister to camp and paint).

I’ve learned the names of many of the plants and creatures that surround me. Painting makes me feel a part of the larger system and gives me a good way to be outside, as I don’t farm, fish or hunt.