I obsessively paint blue and white florals to remind us that in the midst of the chaos and struggle that life often presents us, there is still so much goodness and beauty to be found if we choose to see it. The color blue helps us process our fears and any grief that manifests in this wild and wonderful life. Blue helps us express those deep feelings, but then ushers us into a place of joy and resolve. Blue is sky and water, it is peace and safety, it is midnight and dawn, both expansive and grounding. I like to say that I'm in my Blue Period and happy about it.
Growing up on Lake Murray nurtured a deep love for nature in me. My mother’s garden has always been a full-blown sensory experience, bursting with camellias, cosmos, daisies, and roses galore. Water and sunlight and trees and blooms might just run in my veins. These are the images that flow through me as I paint with my ever-expanding blue palette housing indigo, ultramarine, cobalt, phthalo, and more. I paint in two main mediums: small scale watercolor on paper, and large scale acrylic on canvas. I like to get lost in the experience, finding a delicate balance between carefully planning each painting and letting my intuition guide me with every color I mix and mark I make.
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Skye Como Miller was born and raised in South Carolina, but spent the last decade traveling around the U.S. in search of a new place to put down roots. From Traverse City, MI to Sarasota, FL and many stops in between, not one city felt right until she returned to her home state in January of 2022 to call Greenville home. Skye graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010 with a BFA in Painting. Since then she has pursued freelance work in many forms: private art lessons, children's book illustration, greeting card production, photography, graphic design, and more. It took several years of her exploring different artistic avenues to finally come home to her first love: painting.
Daily inspired by her three young children, her work revolves around themes of slow living, remembering the sweetness of childhood, and finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. Skye exclusively paints blue and white florals with a fresh and nostalgic feel and in an expressionistic style. Her favorite mediums are watercolor and acrylics and she describes her process of painting as a meditative and intuitive experience, becoming fully absorbed in her work as she surrenders to the catharsis of gliding paint onto canvas one brushstroke at a time.
Every one of her blue-hued floral paintings is meant to evoke the feeling of connection, calling to mind memories of morning coffee on the patio with your grandma, fresh linen drying on the line, childhood summers spent barefoot and free, a familiar floral wind that smells like home. To see more of Skye’s work visit her website at indigoskyefineart.com or find her on Instagram @indigoskye.art