Raé Miller is a self-taught artist who began painting at the age of 12. She painted with oils, acrylics and water media before discovering Encaustics in 2001, while living in Marin County, California. She has exhibited her work in numerous shows and venues. 

Raé is a founding member of International Encaustic Artists, a member of SAZWAX, the Encaustic Art Institute, Texas Wax,  and was a Board Member of Indian Valley Artists, the artist’s group who laid the groundwork for what is now the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, California. 

In 2007, Raé went to Mexico to pursue her painting career full-time and open an encaustic studio, gallery and teaching space.  She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2008.  With treatment completed, she has opened Raé Miller Studio/Gallery at Fabrica La Aurora in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.  A donation of five percent of art sales will be given to a fund for breast cancer awareness and mammograms for underprivileged local women.

Raé offers workshops and private instruction for beginners to discover the medium, as well as more advanced classes for artists familiar with encaustics and looking for new and different ways to work with this versatile medium.  Please contact Raé for a schedule of classes in Encaustic Painting and Encaustic Monotype.

Raé’s work is represented by The Cameron Gallery in Dallas, TX. Her work is found in private collections in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.

Statement

I paint from an inner space where creativity flows through me, and I come back to myself a few hours later, happy, completely spent, and sometimes satisfied...  There is magic in getting creativity to flow, and I find connection through the rituals I’ve created as part of my work.  I don’t often work in series.  At times I complete a painting that seems so foreign, yet so right for me at that moment. I am usually challenging myself technically, and trying to send my inner vision out through my mind and heart and hand onto the panel.  I love what I do.

My paintings convey an idea or a memory, telling a story, subtly visible but just beyond reach in the background, soft colors drifting together, broken edges pushing away from each other, but still melded together…like family…inviting the viewer to look closer, see the relationship, to take a moment, to wonder.