H. Ward Miles is a contemporary artist based in Indiana.
Photo: In studio, Death, 2020
"My work is an attempt to take a world that can be so negative and find the happy, bright beauty of our fragile existence. My work focuses on our great joys--love, parenthood, ambition and community— and our great sorrows—personal sacrifice, politics, social injustice— and works to accurately depict a big, messy life containing both. "
-H. Ward Miles
“You [H. Ward Miles] paint approximations of my dreams and memories of childhood: they are GREAT memories of comfort and security and soothing aesthetics, but there was always an edge—a surprising hostile encounter, a nightmare here and there, that made the comfortable moments really pop. I feel like your paintings combine a few different times and spaces in one frame—which is not non-realistic since we filter every moment through our memories anyway.”
—Dr. Patrick Myers, 2018