Melissa Scott-Miller is an acclaimed painter of meticulously detailed urban landscapes and portraits of people in their surroundings.
Melissa Scott-Miller grew up in Kensington, London, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She was taught by Anthony Green, Lucian Freud, and Jeffrey Camp; who said of her work:
'A child prodigy is rare in music or mathematics but very rare in painting. For Melissa, the picture comes whole, erasure and overpainting seem unnecessary. The visible world is easily grasped. The multiple components are handled with the assurance of a virtuoso.' She won numerous accolades from the Slade, twice including prizes judged by Carel Weight, whom she admires greatly to this day.
Since graduating in 1981 with a first class degree, Melissa Scott-Miller has shown work at numerous galleries and with such leading exhibiting societies as the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the New English Art Club.
Her urban landscapes focus on the London streets she frequents, with the ability to keenly observe detail as both artist and local.
Her portraits have been exhibited five times at the National Gallery as part of the annual Portrait Awards. She has held solo shows across the UK at the Albemarle Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Mark Jason Gallery, and the Twenty Twenty Gallery. She has also exhibited in America at the Acquavella Galleries in New York, and the Cross Gate Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky.
Among the numerous awards that she has received is the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize in 2008. She is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the New English Art Club.
Melissa teaches at Heatherley's School of Fine Art, London, and the Royal Drawing School. In March 2023 Chris Beetles Gallery held her first solo, sell-out exhibition, and they have continued to show regular displays of her work ever since. In 2023 her painting The Greeting was exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In November 2023 she featured in the book Unlocking Women's Art by PL Henderson.
This year she has exhibited at the Mall Galleries twice, for the annual NEAC and RPP shows, and two of her works were exhibited and sold at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024. Melissa is also regularly working on commissions through the gallery, and can often be spotted painting around the city.
