Harland Miller artwork recreated at York wildflower meadow

Harland Miller’s Far Out paintings form a key part of his XXX exhibition in York.

And the pop art canvas have now been brought to life in the wildflower meadow in the Artist’s Gallery, behind the art gallery.

The gardens team at York Museums Trust, which manages the art gallery and Museum Gardens, has replicated the two colourful canvases in the meadow.

Far Out by Harland Miller at York Art Gallery (Image: Olivia Hemingway) Steve Williams, garden manager at York Museums Trust, said the initiative aims to show the “positive impact of art and nature on wellbeing”, alongside the “creative talent of the gardens team”.

“The garden’s version of Far Out is a beautiful display of florals and other plants replicating Harland Miller’s iconic paintings in a new medium,” he said.

“It is a contemporary interpretation of traditional summer bedding.

“Bringing art outdoors and working alongside York Art Gallery across the range of exhibitions each year is such a wonderful part of York Museums Trust’s public programme.”

The wildflower display is on show until August 31, when Harland Miller’s exhibition comes to an end.

Miller’s exhibition opened in March and focuses on the York-born artist’s letter writing series – inspired by growing up in York during the seventies and his “itinerant lifestyle” in New York, New Orleans, Berlin and Paris during the eighties and nineties.

Miller takes illuminated letters – typically used to mark the beginning of a chapter in a medieval manuscript – and enlarges them on to a canvas to create the work.