Colin Miller, SculptorReviews & Editorials
Norfolk Journal, November 2001 (pdf)
The Oakhamian, 2001 (pdf)
North Norfolk Living Magazine, Autumn 2005 (pdf)
Jersey Evening Post, July 2015 (jpg)
“When viewing Miller’s work on display at the Ambassador’s Residence, one gets the feeling that this is the creation of an artist who has carefully observed the elegant, harmonious lines of ancient Greek sculpture, its balanced forms and ideal beauty.
The smoothness of Miller’s sculpture tempts the viewer into touching it, awakening one’s tactile senses via its delicate surfaces. The sensuality and expressiveness of the forms, their union of the figurative and the abstract, or their working of either tradition separately all point towards the aesthetics of modernism. Characters from Greek mythology crop up in Miller’s creations over and over again as does the Biblical theory concerning man’s creation.”
Stella Sevastopoulou, Athens News, 18th March 1999 (The British Embassy Residence, Athens).
“This lithe and tactile work ranges across abstraction and representation, the senses and the spirit, but places prevailing stress on femininity, eroticism and mythology.
The man who has executed several monumental commissions for corporate headquarters in London and East Anglia is also unstinting in the attention he pays to miniaturist detail – never more so than in a tiny wood and marble sculpture of a foetus encased in a womb.
It may be no coincidence that so creative and celebratory a sculptor should be most concerned with themes of creation.”
Eastern Daily Press 18 November 1991 (Exhibition Bond St. London).
“Miller has used the translucent Parian marble and native olive wood with remarkable skill and compassion. The abstract sculptures glorify the medium rather than embody a meaning.
The figurative pieces are often sexual – they are not pornographic but intrinsic. The bronze sculptures, polished and unpolished, are as delicate as the wood and marble, and are epitomised by the sensual “Wader” which seduces you into the gallery.
The most powerful and evocative works are those based on the human figure. Here Miller creates with an obvious love of form and beauty, sculpture that is as natural as the materials used.
Eastern Daily Press 6th December 1985 (Norwich Exhibition)
“I have been following this sculptors work for a number of years now. Miller is an Englishman living on the island of Paros. It seems that there he found the tranquillity he needs, because he turns out work of great sensitivity … thoughtful works full of both pensiveness and joy. The works in the current show are mainly in olive wood or bronze. It would be hard to find a sculptor as attuned to the special qualities of his wood as Miller is. Every swirl in the wood plays a part in the totality of the sculpture. His works have something very unique and personal about them which is why they are so appealing. Miller is very good on line.
Sensuousness is a quality marking all his work. He can get power into his bronzes too, but as always, the strength is tempered with delicateness and sensitivity. Even in abstract works Miller never departs far from the human form and there are maybe hints of it within these works.
Harry Livas. Athens News Nov. 25th 1981. British Council Exhibition, Athens 1981.
“However varied his subjects may be, in each there is an individual discovery and a technical resourcefulness which marks a truly creative artist. His sculptures are tremendously satisfying and stimulating from both a visual and tactile approach; and each well observed piece a recreation.”
David Sheridan, London 1975.
