Melissa Scott-Miller

Melissa Scott-Miller paints mainly urban landscapes, specialising in London where she was born and still lives, as well as interiors and portraits of people in their surroundings.

She is fascinated by light and pattern and texture, particularly on bricks and slates of London buildings and the flora and fauna found in city gardens and parks. She is fascinated in detail and the effects of nature on man-made structures, but also wishes to portray an emotional relationship she has with London streets, where she has lived as a child, an artist and a mother and a dog owner.

She likes to concentrate very deeply and feels that she is walking on a tightrope when she works.

Scott-Miller has exhibited at the Mark Jason Gallery and the New English Art Club, Hunting/Observer Art Prizes, The Mall Galleries; A T Kearney; BP Portrait Award; The London Group, in the National Collection and on 17 occasions at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

In 1999, Scott-Miller was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She has won several awards, including the 2008 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, worth £15,000. She also won a prize at The South Bank Picture Show and won The Lucy Morrison Award, Royal Overseas League and the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship. She is also a member of the prestigious Royal Society of British Artists, whose membership is limited.