Hi, my name is Skye Como Miller and I'm so glad you found your way here. I graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2010 with a B.F.A. in Painting & Graphic Design. I live in Greenville, South Carolina with my supportive husband, three beautiful kiddos, and adoring scruffy rescue dog.
I create painterly botanical artwork that embodies the energy of nostalgia and safety. My work is a reminder that in the midst of the chaos and struggle that life often presents us, there is still so much goodness to be found if we choose to see it.
Every one of my blue-focused floral paintings is created in little scraps of time that I steal away between juggling a full time job, raising a family, and managing a home. What feels like a sacrifice (because truly there are a million other things I "should" be doing) becomes a life-giving escape that fuels my soul and helps me express stored up beauty from my extraordinary, ordinary life. All the little stolen moments add up to a finished botanical painting that feels like a timely reminder of what it feels like to be a kid: you actually don't have to shoulder the weight of the world.
My abstracted florals feature a blue-focused palette because contrary to popular belief blue doesn't just represent sadness. The color blue helps us process our fears and any grief that manifests in this wild and wonderful life. Blue helps us access and express those feelings, but then ushers us into a place of deep peace. Blue is sky and water, it is peace and safety, it is midnight and dawn, both expansive and grounding.
somatic / intuitive / expressionistic
My process of painting is meditative; I become full absorbed into my work as I surrender to the catharsis of gliding paint onto canvas one brushstroke at a time. My work centers around two different mediums: watercolor on paper and mixed media on canvas.
For the most part, I've built my painting rhythms around being able to quickly jump into a work in progress while also being able to easily clean up my art space before my toddler runs in and eats my paint or destroys my painting (yes, both have happened). Re-wetting paints like watercolor and gouache give me the flexibility I crave on a daily basis, but my bread and butter, and what makes my soul happiest, is getting to work larger scale on unstretched canvas with a mixture of mediums and textures.
Whether I'm painting for just a few minutes or for a few hours at a time, I am fully absorbed into my work. It's a sacred space for me to play with intuitive marks that may become a botanical composition or a cathartic abstract.
I want my work to produce inspiration in peoples hearts and lives. When we are inspired it's often the spark that interrupts our normal pattern of thinking and moves us to the point of transformation, little or big.
I seek to express authenticity in my work, to highlight the Beauty of fragile things, and to give voice and imagery to the Unseen. My work empowers the use of the imagination and connects us back to childhood, to a time before we learned the need to suppress and ignore this potent aspect of our minds.
