Renée Marsha Miller

I am a painter of colorful, joyful abstracts working in acrylics from my Campbell studio in Northern California. Growing up in the town of Los Gatos, just a short drive over a mountain thick with Redwood trees to the beautiful coast of Santa Cruz, scenes of nature's beauty were all around me. Then, when I was 18, I was struck with a surprise mental illness that had me hallucinating in a manic episode during my second week in college. The life of adventure and travel I'd imagined slipped through my fingers. After that, all I could manage was to hang on to simple survival. I was, however, able to study painting and figure drawing at Santa Clara University and even earned a Master's of Fine Arts degree from Antioch University in 2007.
Now at 45, I live only one town over in Campbell, still going to the same movie theaters and restaurants I did as a child. Painting gives me a powerful, joyful outlet for my feelings and helps me stay positive.

2007 - MFA, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA

2003 - BA, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

2021 Group Show: Women In Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020 Juried Show: FSVAA 57th Annual Northern California Regional Juried Art Show, Solano Town Center Gallery, Fairfield, CA

2020 Group Show: Small Works Exhibition, Medford Arts, Medford, NJ

2020 Group Show: Women Suffragists Art Exhibit, Women Souring Project Gallery, Rocklin, CA

2020 Group Show: 12x12x12, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA