Biography

Marianne Miller is a painter who lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Columbus College of Art and Design, majoring in illustration. After years in the commercial freelance business she returned to her original love, oil painting.

Miller is a member of the American Impressionists Society and the Ohio Plein Air Society. She has won many state and national awards including the Marjorie L. Bradley Memorial Associate Member Award for the American Impressionist’s National Exhibit (2017) and Ohio Plein Air Society’s Best of Show Award (2017).

Her work was featured in PleinAir magazine’s Outdoor Painter’s July 15, 2015 edition. She has painted plein air on both coasts as well as in Scotland, but her primary motif is the jaunty country life of rural Ohio. Currently, Miller enters several plein air competitions a year to keep her edge.

When she is not painting outside, you can find her in her studio working on larger landscapes that highlight the interplay of light, color and texture.

Artist’s Statement

I work in oil because I enjoy the smoothness of the medium. Oil paint glides easily from palette to brush to canvas, creating a natural path for my visual message. It can be piled on, scraped or scuffed and even wiped off if I need a fresh start in an area. It is as though the fluidity of the paint prompts a certain ‘mental flow’ in my mind that I can ride to create a cohesive composition and capture a moment of life as it is happening.