“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

-John Muir

Born and raised in California, painter Bailey Miller has always had nature right at her back door. Her exploration began with road trips along Highway 1, backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and progressed into adventures that crossed state lines which led her to her new home in the Northwest. Nature has continually had her heart. She was born with a soul for adventure, eager to see the sublime, untouched beauty of God's creation.
Bailey always enjoyed drawing but did not pick up painting until her freshman year of college. She grew up in Norco, California where she put all her childhood time and energy into playing tennis. With great aspirations of becoming a professional tennis player, her goals were abruptly cut short by a career ending injury, which upon high school graduation led her to choosing a university without a tennis team.
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Bailey attended California State University, Monterey Bay beginning in the fall of 2011 and studied kinesiology with an emphasis in athletic training. Nature was abundant on the Monterey Peninsula, which sparked her adventurous side and led to exploration through driving, hiking, kayaking, and running. During a freshman year elective class, she received an assignment requiring painting supplies, one thing led to another and before long she was painting landscapes from all of the beautiful places she explored in Northern California. In 2013, she decided to take the plunge and transfer colleges in order to pursue a degree in art.

She graduated in 2016 from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Fine Arts. During her education, she explored many avenues in the art world; dabbling in animation, illustration, sculpting, drawing, and of course, painting. The various disciplines allowed Bailey to refine her talents and approach painting with a greater understanding of techniques and the use of color.

She began to develop her own sense of artistic style that embodied a contemporary approach to landscape painting. Early on she had the desire to capture things realistically and to this day views every painting as an opportunity to learn something new and refine her techniques.