Biography on ian miller artist

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist.

(1946-    ) UK illustrator. After graduating from St Martin's College of Art, Miller became a commercial illustrator in 1970, with both book-cover work and interior Illustrations, some of the latter in David Day's The Tolkien Bestiary (1979). He did highly characteristic work on the backgrounds for Wizards (1977), an animated film with a Far Future setting directed by Ralph Bakshi (1938-    ). Books of his work are Green Dog Trumpet and Other Stories (graph coll 1978) – the stories being narrated by images without accompanying text – Secret Art (1980) and Ratspike (1990) with John Blanche. The Luck in the Head (graph 1991) with M John Harrison is a Graphic Novel with text adapted by Harrison from his 1983 short story of the same name. Miller appears in The Guide to Fantasy Art Techniques (1984) edited by Martyn Dean. Though he has worked in a commercial