• Michael Miller’s Naturalia I #008, an abstract dark landscape of sweeping black and deep blue textures beneath a pale glowing band, with small pink, violet and turquoise accents, from The Very Fine Art Gallery.
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Naturalia I #008

Naturalia I #008

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A dark, atmospheric landscape unfolds beneath a band of pale, glowing light. Deep blues and blacks sweep diagonally across the image, punctuated by small flashes of pink, violet and turquoise. The dark textures suggest rain falling across a shadowed landscape, while the ragged upper edge evokes distant trees or a turbulent horizon. Flecks of light emerge from the darkness like sparks or reflections, leaving the scene open to interpretation — a storm approaching, a mysterious wilderness or an imagined world caught between night and light.

Part of Naturalia I, this work began with a photographic negative transformed by time, humidity and organic change. The resulting patterns reveal unexpected forms and textures, turning the remnants of a photograph into an abstract landscape shaped by chance.

These images are printed on a high-quality partly glossy, partly matte finish with an intentional white border so they can be framed without losing any part of the image to a matte.

• 0.26 mm thick
• Slightly glossy
• Fingerprint resistant
• Paper sourced from Japan

Produced to order and delivered within the UK, with fully tracked delivery. Please allow 1–3 working days for production and 1–3 working days for delivery.

The Story Behind This Collection
Naturalia is Michael Miller's meditation on time, chemistry, and accidental beauty. The works in this series began not with a camera, but in storage - film negatives left undisturbed for over five years, slowly transformed by humidity, damp, and the quiet passage of time. The elements worked on the negatives in ways no darkroom technique could replicate, producing the extraordinary colours, textures, and forms you see here. Each piece is a collaboration between the artist and entropy itself: unique, unrepeatable, and entirely natural in origin.
About the Artist
Michael Miller's practice centres on the abstraction of reality - using a hybrid of photographic techniques across multiple disciplines to create an emotional connection with the viewer. His work inhabits a realm of deliberate ambiguity, where he believes an intangible beauty resides: visually poetic, artful rather than merely documentary.

Michael has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Head On Portrait Prize, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize at the NSW State Library, and at the BBA Gallery Berlin. He was voted Australia's Top Emerging Art Photographer by Capture Magazine in 2018, and has been recognised with awards from the IPA, PX3, and D&AD, among others.

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