Draft:Adam Scott Miller
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Adam Scott Miller[1] (born March 9, 1984) (a.k.a. "ASM") was a globally-renowned visionary artist, especially acclaimed for his oil and mixed media paintings, digital paintings, video animations, public speaking engagements, teaching, and performances as a life-painter.
An only child, born and raised in central Pennsylvania, Adam was nurtured by family and teachers to pursue his art. As a teenager, Adam experienced a series of life-altering events that shaped his path. One of these events was a head concussion that reportedly affected his memory, vision and other faculties. After the concussion, Adam advised that his injury had been a blessing as he was able to see auras and energies when he looked with concentration. Adam felt that these energies were proof of a present, inherent "ecology of energy" that lies outside the ordinary biological senses. Adam credited this event and others with providing him with a new perspective and curiosity about spirituality, and actualization of his own self-realization toward becoming a masterful visionary.
Adam received six years of formal training from two of the highest-ranked US-based fine art schools. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as with an MFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Adam developed a technical artistic process and technique he coined the "ASMethod," which he began to teach at intensive visionary art intensive workshops around the world, including The Academy of Visionary Art,[2] Paradise One,[3] and at his bungalow in Kuranda, Australia. As a live-painting visionary artist and presenter, he was featured at a number of prominent art and music festivals including Boom, CoSM, Rainbow Serpent, Symbiosis, Earth Frequency Festival[4] and others.
After a number of years of involvement with galleries and festival events, in 2010, Adam moved from the USA to Kuranda, Australia, surrounded by the ancient rainforests of far-northeastern Queensland. He married his first wife, an Australian citizen, in 2013 and later that year became a permanent resident in Australia and father to his only daughter, Maia Lily. The marriage dissolved in 2014. Adam eloped in 2016 to his second wife, who was from America, and continued to reside in Northern Queensland. The couple had no children and physically separated in 2017.
From late 2017-2020, Adam continued to strive to challenge himself to create technically, conceptually and visually satisfying visionary artwork; he, however, had several challenges in his life that seemed to interrupt his career, including his mother's two-year battle with terminal cancer. Adam's mother passed in November 2019. Adam viewed those last few years as a "long dark night of the soul" which he had "traversed and begun reaping the rewards of perception that comes with relative maturity." In November of 2020, Adam began a short-lived engagement with his art again. He passed away in July of 2024 and was mourned by the global visionary art community, including his longtime colleague Amanda Sage and the co-creative project Vision Train.[5]