Keith Miller studied at Toronto's Ontario College of Art and later taught painting nearby Sheridan College of Visual Arts. In the 1970's he traveled extensively through our Europe, filling innumerable albums with drawings of the landscape and architecture of Spain, Greece and Turkey. 
Prior to moving to San Miguel in 1990, he spent nearly 5 years traveling and working in East Asia. One Canadian critic summed up Miller's work in this way; "His flowers seem to occupy some strange space in the natural order between plant and mammal. 
They do not so much grow as they heave and sigh, as if their own emotional life. It is a descriptive art, but not descriptive of a world of creatures that are familiar to us. We indulge with the painter in that most delicate kind of nostalgia, for a time and place we never knew. They, (the flowers), appear both autonomous and vital: carnal knowledge in a golden land. These tropical visitors are seductive and dangerous." Indeed, in Miller's art, there is a sense of venturing out into virgin territory in order to capture these strange species in their own habitat. 
They are illuminated by a blowing, tumultuous light; an atmosphere which is almost foreboding-the artist has avoided the cheerful sky blue tonalities which are common to so much floral painting. 
Another critic noted; "Miller is a virtuoso painter and his flowers, especially, are beautifully realized, shot through with stormily light and sexual energy". 
In purely technical terms he has accomplished that most difficult trick of the landscape painter; to suggest the play and movement of light and shadow, an envelope of shifting air. It is this strong impression of vacillating sun light and scudding clouds which gives his botanical subjects their natural energy. This lifts them above the "pretty" and the obvious to a poetic level where that appear vigorous and at the same time lyrical. Keith Miller's paintings can be found in the collection of the U.S. Dept. of State and in a number of Museum and Corporate collections in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He is widely represented by U.S. galleries and in his native Canada.