Husband & Wife Artists Paint Daily Since March, 2016

October 13, 2021 – Sarasota

2,094 Days and 4,094 Paintings Later The Millers Exhibit opens at MARA Art Studio + Gallery at 1421 5th St on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2021 at 5:00pm. ArtistBrian Miller will be LIVE painting piece #4,094 while Artist Debbie Miller talks about their process and experience. The exhibition will run through November. 

On March 22, 2016, Brian and Debbie Miller decided to try an experiment: for a month, they would get up each morning at 5am and paint a small 6” x 6” painting before going to work. It wasn’t an original idea. The concept of “painting small and often” had already gained significant traction in the artistic world, after artists like Duane Keiser and Carol Marine decided to increase their visibility and sales through creating small paintings every day and selling them through “non-traditional”markets, such as eBay, blogs, and other websites. But for the Millers, the experiment was both an answer to a deeper set of longings and the beginning of an adventure that would become an indispensable part of their lives.

So, this experiment in daily painting was a significant chance for them both toovercome their limiting mythologies and develop a practice that worked for them.They had both discovered the power of iterative learning – the value of workingthrough all the stage of a painting, from initial inertia to finishing touches, over andover. They experienced the benefits of making art (something they had decided wasimportant to them) first thing, before other demands got in the way. No matter whathappened after they left their easels, they had already made their mark in the worldthat day. And they found that the joys of creating together were a blessing to boththeir relationship and their artwork.

Now, after over 5-1/2 years of creating over 4,000 paintings between them, they cannot imagine a life that didn’t involve this daily expression of creativity and love.