George Milliken - Watercolors

George retired on January 1, 1999 and promptly moved with his wife Barbara and their Golden Retrievers from Los Angeles to Florence. In November, 2004, they moved to Gig Harbor, WA.

He started out at Princeton studying architecture, but soon realized that was not his field. He then enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design with thoughts of pursuing a career as an illustrator or designer. Instead, after graduating with a degree in Fine Arts, he ended up on the marketing management side of the advertising agency business and for the next forty years did not paint a single picture.

In 1990 he began to paint again, self-teaching himself the watercolor medium. Many of his early paintings were of buildings and particularly porches, and for George nothing is as quietly pleasant as the play of light on the side of a building. Since moving to Florence, the local scenery has inspired him to paint more scenic subjects and landscapes.

George is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and has had one man shows and gallery representation in Southern California, Montana and up and down the Oregon coast.