Peter Miles is an Australian born Painter, living and working on various country within Australia.

Artist Statement

I remember watching a Gagadju man, Felix Lyanuk, painting on bark. It was the mid 80’s in Kakadu and I was astounded how seemingly calm he was as he worked. 

Painting was given the same emotional range as hunting and walking. He was present and committed, but he had a lightness. And he appeared not to be suffering at all, which when I was young was certainly something I used to think was absolutely necessary.

I have always looked to this experience for inspiration, my work has become less about me and more about nature.

 My painting practice has often been interrupted by my work as a landscape designer. 

My work has always been in the natural landscape, nature has always been closely observed and absorbed.

In my paintings I return to the same motifs time and time again; the meeting of sky and sea, grass plains, the horizon, columns of smoke, lightning, rain, huge towering clouds, beams of light and trees dissecting the landscape like a grid.

I render them all in a painterly manner, as best as my facility allows. 

 I am firmly rooted in a painterly tradition, I am aware and in debt to all those before me.

 ‘It was a rainy day in November when I received a small collection of paintings by Peter Miles. His work, not only hit me in the chest and resonated closely with some cellular part of my being. It brought a sense of joy, peace and promise… at the same time, I was speechless - there were no words, or subjective commentary, time stopped.

I experienced a sense of rest, quiet & deep admiration (I can only relate it to a similar feeling of being physically surrounded by deep bush and birdsong). Transcribing nature is a true art in itself. I wish I could articulate my experience of being in front of these incredible pieces of work (for that is somewhat my job). But alas, I leave you with nothing except an invitation to spend time truely observing these incredible abstract windows into landscapes beyond. I trust you might just find that sense of stillness, joy and human recognition of our environmental counterpart somewhere within. Viewing Peter’s artwork is much more than a visual experience.

Thank you Peter (Pierre) Miles for your incredible dedication to the artform of painting. As you are in debt to those painters that have gone before, others will be in debt to you. Thank you for exhibiting with The Tiny Honorable Gallery’
Daphne Day*