“With street graffiti, you have to work out exactly what you’ll be doing on the wall so you can take along the right colours and amount of paint needed. I like that on canvas it doesn’t have to be so pre-planned, although I do always have an idea at the start how the pieces will end up. Sometimes they turn out like my original vision, but often they are more free-form.”


He readily admits that it took him a while to get his head around scaling down from 30ft x 8ft walls to 3ft x 3ft canvas, and often gets the artist’s version of writer’s block. “A lot of my paintings have other paintings underneath because I’ve needed to get over ‘blank canvas syndrome’. I just have to begin painting anything to fill the canvas up, and then use this as a building block before starting again.”


To date, Steve’s been reluctant to do anything publicly with his art, and remains far too modest about his talent. He doesn’t yet think he’s found himself with this new direction, and feels like he is still experimenting. “I’m not commercially driven because I have a good job at a good company, I just want to carry on doing what


I enjoy and start to share it in the hope that others will like it. I paint for my own sanity, not for anyone else, it’s my stress reliever, but now that I have my studio and renewed creative drive, my next goal is to hold an exhibition.”


Hopefully exhibiting at a gallery near you soon, for now you can contact Steve at smile@stevemiles.co.uk


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