Jodi Miller
Painter based in Canada
ABOUT
Jodi Miller is a contemporary, Canadian impressionist painter whose landscapes explore our sense of belonging and how we interact with our natural environment. She is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force, following a 20 year career as an aerospace engineer working in aircraft maintenance and project management. Jodi pivoted to become a full-time artist in 2015, returning to the prairies where she grew up on a family farm. She now finds inspiration in the vast land and skies.
Jodi’s work has been recognized as “capturing Canadian identity through landscape”. Her acrylic paintings vary in scale, have been part of shows across Canada and are held in private collections world-wide. She is influenced by classical impressionist painters such as Van Gogh and David Hockney and abstract expressionists like Richard Dieberkorn and Otto Rogers. Working alongside contemporaries including Julie Himel, Richard Claremont and Amy Dryer has deepened her desire to create narrative pieces that resonate with personal conviction.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the interaction between humans and their environment. I paint in response to my time in nature and questions of how our relationship with landscape influences our sense of belonging.
I use acrylic paint to sketch and make marks in response to emotions I experience spending time in nature. I build gestural layers of paint, leaving imprints on canvas just as we do on our environment. My work shows human interactions in a space: where we carve out roads, erect telephone lines and put up fences. Just as these artifacts signify human belonging in a natural environment, my paintings draw on the viewers emotional connection to similar time and space based on their own memory and experience. The pieces narrate a connection, both to others and the land. Every painted landscape is a fictitious place, imbued with hope and possibility.
Website: jodimillerfineart.com / Instagram: @jodimillerfineart
