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Harland Miller. High on Hope (2019). Edition of 75. 20 colour screen print on Somerset Radiant White tub Sized 410gsm. Printed by K2 Screen, London. 76 x 60 cm (29.9 x 23.6 in). Signed, numbered and dated by the artist. £7,500. 'High on Hope' (2019) is part of Harland Miller's ongoing series of paintings and prints based on the dust jackets of Penguin books. By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text. The ensuing images are humorous, sardonic and nostalgic at the same time, while the painting style hints at the dog-eared, scuffed covers of the Penguin classics themselves. Miller continues to create work in this vein, expanding the book covers to include his own phrases, some hilarious and absurd, others with a lush melancholy.