Born in London in 1966, ARTIST Sam Orlando Miller spent his formative years at the benches of the family silversmithing workshop. Growing up with silver created a life-long connection to the lustrous, precious metal, and it’s reflections. In this atmosphere of trade and tradition a studio practice was born, and he became a skilful, confident maker. Living in the city he was drawn to London’s wastelands, and later to remote landscapes, where he began to paint and draw. Uncertainty of colours, shifting light and forms, surfaces that are visible, then not there at all. Both silver and the landscape became metaphors for his inner world, and a distinctive language emerged.
In 1987, he graduated in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art, his sculptures made of steel found in the local shipyards. In 2002, he and his wife, photographer Helen Miller, moved to central Italy. Here, in a rural landscape, where manufacturing and art were closely entwined, the first Untitled Mirrors were made. An on-going document of his creative process, particularly his drawing and interaction with the silvered surface, now forms part of Miller’s extensive archive. In search of land and solitude, they recently relocated to NE Spain. Sam Orlando Miller’s work is held in private collections throughout the world.