Alan Miles - Artist and Photographer

Alan Miles
alan@alanmiles.co.nz
Ph +64 (9) 818 6365
Mob +64 (27) 220 9745
PO Box 21-818
Henderson
Auckland, 0650
New Zealand

Labelled with ICRA

Last updated
24th January 2010

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Welcome to my personal web space. I would like to share some of my art, photography, and personal thoughts with you if you are interested. If you have been here before and want to catch up with anything new, take a quick look at the "New Content" page.

I have strong feelings for the New Zealand landscape, and think that most of my work so far reflects this. When I paint, I try to express my personal impressions as much as the visual image itself, so that when the work is finished I can see something in it that expresses what I felt in some way. I hope that others can see it too.

Here are a few of my paintings - more inside!

I enjoy the complex interplay of colour, especially when a lot of quite vivid and unrealistic colours are used in close proximity to give an overall lively impression of a realistic colour. My painting of the Kaitoke Regional Reserve, north of Upper Hutt painted some years ago was probably the first time that I consciously worked at achieving this approach.

I am currently a full-time IT professional of some 30+ years experience, and a part-time artist. I have been so busy with my professional IT work that this is the first new painting for a while.

This painting of Mowhanau beach shortly after sunset with the tide out was painted wet-on-wet in a single session.

I generally paint in oils, but sometimes work with other media to see what different results I can achieve.