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As I’ve said before, Facebook serves me well to help reconnect to friends and family. As I peer in on their lives and share elements of my own, old and welcome feelings are rekindled. So it was very nice to be reintroduced to an old friend today. I remember Steven Miller from our early 80′s encounters in Charlotte. Back then he was an emerging gouache artist who I knew best for his energetic wit, rapid-fire vocabulary and disarming smile. It’s nice too to experience vicarious excitement at his artistic success.

Steven’s works have been exhibited throughout the United States and are part of prominent art collections, including those of Bank of America, Hilton, PepsiCo and Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the first true ‘killer app’ for the PC. His work has appeared on numerous magazine covers, including Yankee, The Sun, and Rambler. Miller creations have also appeared on national television. Zinnias in Yellow Vase was offered as a prize on Wheel of Fortune, three serigraphs were featured on the soap opera Santa Barbara and he painted a mural on The Party Machine starring Arsenio Hall.

Steven calls his style Clarified Realism, through which he “punches up the contrast and make scenes very bold.” He has mastered gouache, a challenging medium involving opaque watercolor. Unlike traditional watercolorists, Miller paints on dry rag paper and uses two coats of paint to obtain clearly defined details and saturated colors. The results are impressive, actually resembling photographs.

His paintings also are known for hidden images of hearts, which subtly symbolize his self-fashioned Art With Hearts. “It makes viewers look at the works more closely. Hearts help us to share the feelings of love and hope that connect us all.”

Steven R. Miller, friend, accomplished artist.

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