Ian Milner turned to sculpture on retirement from his second career as a Surveyor, having started life at sea.
He studied the practice of figurative sculpture both modeled in clay and carved in stone, under Nigel Konstam in Tuscany.
Although without any other formal art training he has relied on a natural talent to become particularly committed to portrait sculpture
Ian Milner is a keen believer that Portrait Sculpture should be much more than a death mask, but should reveal character as in paintings
Sculptures by ian milner
Credentials
Qualifications
Ian Milner was educated at the Bishop Vesey`s Grammar School in Warwickshire, and later at the College of Estate Management in London, achieving professional qualifications:-
FRICS, FSVA, FCIArb FRGS,Ian Milner was educated at the Bishop Vesey`s Grammar School in Warwickshire, and later at the College of Estate Management in London, achieving professional qualifications:-
FRICS, FSVA, FCIArb FRGSExhibitions
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Awards
Ian Milner has won prizes for his marine paintings when exhibited in the Natinal Maritime Museum in Greenwich, whilst Chairman of the Museum`s Art Club
Ian Milner fulfilled a boyhood ambition by going to sea at 17. Serving on Troop Ships, Cargo /Passenger ships and later, on a Salvage vessel engaged on clearing wartime wrecks.
On leaving the sea, qualified as a Building Surveyor and practiced in the City of London for some 40 years. After a lifetime of painting and drawing became committed to sculpture on retirement from Surveying.
On retirement from surveying, studied the practice of sculpture under Nigel Konstam at the Verrochio Art Centre in Tuscany.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, past Chairman of the Canvas Club, Art Group of the Friends (now Founder Member) of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Member of the Surrey Society of Sculptors; Member of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society.
Based in Tunbridge Wells, he also works in Tuscany
Ian Milner is an ardent admirer of Rodin`s sculpture, and has been fascinated by the examples of work dating from 2000 BC to be seen in Rome and Pompeii
