Artists ~ Daved Ferrell Miller ~ Providence
Artist's name: Daved Ferrell Miller
Shop name: Pomegranate Atelier
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pomegranateatelier/
Instagram: Pomegranate_atelier
1. Tell us about your work.
My work has a quiet quirkiness that’s playful and yet serious. Some of my narratives hint and speak of childhood ptsd, relationships, friendships and frankly sadness. At other times I’ll paint portraits of objects to evoke feelings for simple narratives.
2. Is there a story behind the name of your business?
The name of my studio has the root of the Persephone and Hades through the symbol of a pomegranate which I first experienced as a child of four or five that a neighborhood friend (Amy Scott) shared with me.
3. How did you come to be a professional artist/crafter/designer?
I think the desire has always been there for as long as I can remember to create images and I wanted to pursued illustration and painting since seventh grade and went to university after high school and a few years later I went back for another degree in printmaking at another university.
4. Where do you draw your inspiration?
My muse in the studio and creative energies stem from the strong desire to create. Like many visual artists I am inspired by the world I walk through daily and feel that art is a form of conversation. Often that conversation starts with oneself but hopes that others are inspired by my thoughts as well from my creative outpourings. My work is figurative and highly narrative. The imagery is a fusion between the movement, form and symbols often co-opted from language. I love the process and techniques of painting, printmaking and the occasional book arts but I also take great pleasure in immersing in the details. I’m an avid reader influenced by history, art and culture. I’m very interested in mythologies and fairy tales such as Chaucer, Ovid, Grimm and the effects of scientific and superstitious beliefs on our own as well as the cultures of other ages. Other great influences are the works of Joseph Campbell and especially the odd playfulness of Medieval Secular Illuminations.
5. What’s your favorite item to create?
That’s a tossup between painting, printmaking but all have their root for me in drawing i.e. pen and ink.
6. What’s your best seller?
That’s a tricky one as each of my works appeals to everyone differently and there hasn’t been one piece above others in appeal.
7. How long have you been in Rhode Island?
I’ve been in Rhode Island for almost 10 years
8. What do you {heart} about Rhode Island?
The city of Providence and the waterways of Providence River and Narragansett Bay
9. Favorite place to take out-of-towners?
Iggie’s clam shack as well as Loie Fullers, The Red Fez and RISD Art Museum and the Cliffwalk
10. Any advice for new/wannabe makers?
Follow your Heart and do what only you can do.
11. Please include anything else you’d like to add:
I’m randomly about town on my art cart weekends selling art in Providence
Shop name: Pomegranate Atelier
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pomegranateatelier/
Instagram: Pomegranate_atelier
1. Tell us about your work.
My work has a quiet quirkiness that’s playful and yet serious. Some of my narratives hint and speak of childhood ptsd, relationships, friendships and frankly sadness. At other times I’ll paint portraits of objects to evoke feelings for simple narratives.
2. Is there a story behind the name of your business?
The name of my studio has the root of the Persephone and Hades through the symbol of a pomegranate which I first experienced as a child of four or five that a neighborhood friend (Amy Scott) shared with me.
3. How did you come to be a professional artist/crafter/designer?
I think the desire has always been there for as long as I can remember to create images and I wanted to pursued illustration and painting since seventh grade and went to university after high school and a few years later I went back for another degree in printmaking at another university.
4. Where do you draw your inspiration?
My muse in the studio and creative energies stem from the strong desire to create. Like many visual artists I am inspired by the world I walk through daily and feel that art is a form of conversation. Often that conversation starts with oneself but hopes that others are inspired by my thoughts as well from my creative outpourings. My work is figurative and highly narrative. The imagery is a fusion between the movement, form and symbols often co-opted from language. I love the process and techniques of painting, printmaking and the occasional book arts but I also take great pleasure in immersing in the details. I’m an avid reader influenced by history, art and culture. I’m very interested in mythologies and fairy tales such as Chaucer, Ovid, Grimm and the effects of scientific and superstitious beliefs on our own as well as the cultures of other ages. Other great influences are the works of Joseph Campbell and especially the odd playfulness of Medieval Secular Illuminations.
5. What’s your favorite item to create?
That’s a tossup between painting, printmaking but all have their root for me in drawing i.e. pen and ink.
6. What’s your best seller?
That’s a tricky one as each of my works appeals to everyone differently and there hasn’t been one piece above others in appeal.
7. How long have you been in Rhode Island?
I’ve been in Rhode Island for almost 10 years
8. What do you {heart} about Rhode Island?
The city of Providence and the waterways of Providence River and Narragansett Bay
9. Favorite place to take out-of-towners?
Iggie’s clam shack as well as Loie Fullers, The Red Fez and RISD Art Museum and the Cliffwalk
10. Any advice for new/wannabe makers?
Follow your Heart and do what only you can do.
11. Please include anything else you’d like to add:
I’m randomly about town on my art cart weekends selling art in Providence
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