ABOUT PAM MILLER

Mixed-media artist Pam Miller studied fine art at Lanchester Polytechnic, where she specialised in painting and printmaking.

She has spent most of her working life teaching art in secondary schools in London and the North East - and still moderates GCSE art for AQA examining board. She gave up teaching three years ago to concentrate on her own art work and related pursuits.

 

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Her reconnection with her own creativity began with walks along the banks of the river Thames around Rotherhithe, where she has lived for over 20 years. Mudlarking on the ever-changing shores she found hundreds of broken clay pipes and - fascinated by their shapes, textures and patina - began to collect and use them in her work.

 

Pam has been inspired by many artists, including Turner, Gauguin, Cezanne, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Long, Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. Her work's meditative quality reflects her involvement in yoga, which she has practised for 15 years. Her outstanding influence, though, is the painter Matisse, for his unsurpassed use of colour, form and patterns.