Robbie Miller

Robbie Miller was born in London, England in 1955. His father was a career Navy man, the family moving often, and to Nova Scotia while Miller was yet a toddler. Leaving home as a teenager, Robbie hitchhiked across the country working a series of odd jobs, to Canada’s West Coast and in 1979, across the border and to Washington’s Pilchuck Glass School – where he met artist Dale Chihuly. Robbie Miller would spend the next 30 years living in Seattle and was employed making studio glass for Chihuly and the many glass artists living in Seattle, and those from outside of the studio glass movement in America – who would routinely visit the glass mecca, to have works realized in the medium. He returned to Canada, and has called Vancouver home, for more than a decade. In 2016 and 2017, the self-taught artist Miller completed a series of 25 large pastel drawings, memorializing the hockey greats of his youth.