Peter Miller founded The Kamakura Print Collection in 1991, adapting the 19th-century European technique to a contemporary Japanese vision and aesthetic. His work has been exhibited in several dozen solo and group shows in Japan, the United States, France, Italy, the U.K, Germany, and Russia. His photogravure etchings are in the permanent collections of the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, the National Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Houston Musem of Art, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Art, the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Fine Arts Museum of Tours, France, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in the 1950s, that confluence of three rivers with the Rust Belt and Appalachia, with its streetcars and inclines and bridges, its neighborhoods with onion-dome-topped churches, gave Miller his first glimpses of landscape. Columbia College in the 1960s provided an education in Western Civilization, and a chance consulting assignment in Japan in the 1970s led to a lifelong attachment there. Business pursuits in the 1980s gave way to printmaking from 1991 onward. For the mountain and garden landscapes of Japan, with their echoes of classical Chinese ink-brush paintings, Peter Miller sought a contemporary way of interpreting them through light and shadow. In the almost-lost technique of photogravure he found the subtle tonalities and ink-on-paper look that Asian themes require.

His website, http://www.kamprint.com , provides an on-line exhibit of his work, in Series such as Temples, Pathways, Seascapes, Dreamscapes, Furusato (hometowns), and others. The site has essays on the history and technique of photogravure, print care and conservation, framing tips, and investing. A related site, http://kamprint.com/xpress/ , enables searching by qualities such as Dynamic, Reflective, Mysterious, Sensual, Spontaneous, Expansive, Elegiac, Intimate, and Luminous.

Xpress also enables searching by Texture: Rough or soft, flowing or granular, linear, patterned, rhythmic are some of the qualities of touch embodied in hand-made prints. Texture emerges from the mix of ink, paper, and composition, a blend of imagination and form. Viewers can also search by ink, paper, image size, place, and price. These qualitative plus quantitative searches make it possible to narrow down the selections quickly.

A blog, http://kamprint.com/views/ , features 'an art-inspired view of life' which extends workshop and exhibit activities into art-enhanced observations of everyday life, work, and happiness. The blog also has announcements of upcoming exhibits and publications. Original prints may be seen in Washington DC at the Parish Gallery - Georgetown, Canal Square, 1054 31st Street, NW, Tel 202-944-2312, Tues - Sat noon - 6 pm.