rob miller paintings and drawings.: February 2012

Painting of Littendale Summer Moods on Canvas

Barn and track summer moods
Upper Littendale West Yorkshire
Acrylic on Canvas
40cmx30cm
painters studio snapshot not for printing
copyright rob miller

Track Sun and showers
Upper Littendale West Yorkshire
Acrylic on Canvas
50cmx40cm
painters studio snapshot not for printing
copyright rob miller

Original paintings by Rob Miller RSA: Prints/originals are available from Artisan Studio Bolton United Kingdom.

Paintings of Borrowdale, Buttermere and EnnerdalesOn Canvas

Raining in Borrowdale
Acrylic on Canvas
40cmx50cm

Ennerdale looking south rain squall on Haystacks
Acrylic on canvas
50cmx40cm

Eskdale Farm and Fell
Acrylic on canvas
40cmx50cm

Be of no doubt that learning to paint rain comes in very handy in the north of England.

Original paintings by Rob Miller RSA: Prints/originals are available from Artisan Studio Bolton United Kingdom.

Painting of Littendale Yorkshire by Lancashire artist Rob Miller

Sunshine and showers
Upper Littendale
Acrylic on canvas
50cmx40cm

Old Barn Litondale
Acrylic on canvas
40cmx30cm

Barn in upper Littondale
Acrylic on canvas
40cmx30cm

I love the Dales in all their seasons, in fact I like this Northern England, if you drew a line across the country from Fleetwood on the West coast to Hull on the East and said to me " Rob you can only paint above this line". I wouldn't be bothered one bit, because its all great. Two great coastlines, the vale of York, the Lancashire plain wonderful dales and valleys and endless moors rising to the Fells of Cumbria and highest hill in England its all great. You can even float though it on a boat on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, which is the subject of a special project for me and a painting mate later this year, for now here is Littondale today and Ribblesdale tomorrow.

Paintings by Rob Miller prints/originals available from Artisan Studio Bolton United Kingdom

Painting of Yr Wyddfa from Crib Goch Snowdonia in watercolour

Yr Wyddfa and Crib Goch
34cmx24cm
Watercolour on paper

One of my favourite walks of all time and a personal trip along this route every Christmas day in my late twenties, this is a special mountain and a pleasure to revisit in paint.

Original paintings by Rob Miller RSA: Prints/originals are available from Artisan Studio Bolton United Kingdom.

Painting of Hebrides Crofts from the shoreline

Crofts from the shore line Isle of Lewis
Acrylic on Canvas
60cmx60cm
painters studio snapshot not for printing
copyright rob miller

Original paintings by Rob Miller RSA: Prints/originals are available from Artisan Studio Bolton United Kingdom.

Three bite life practice

"You can do this anytime you eat a meal. Before taking the first bite, just pause and think of those men and women of wisdom and mentally offer them your food. In this way, you connect with the virtue of devotion.

Before taking the second bite, pause and offer your food to all those who’ve been kind to you. This nurtures the virtues of gratitude and appreciation. The third bite is offered to those who are suffering: all the people and animals who are starving, or being tortured or neglected, without comfort or friends. Think, too, of all of us who suffer from aggression, craving, and indifference. This simple gesture awakens the virtue of compassion.

In this way—by relying on our teachers, our benefactors, and those in need—we gather the virtues of devotion, gratitude, and kindness."

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