Lee Miller. Self portrait 1930

Lee Miller. Self portrait 1930
Miller was a New York born fashion model, writer, photographer and war correspondent. Her early life, played out in the seemingly safe upper middle-classes was littered with abuse, something that would haunt her in later life. Her images of war were unique more so that they were often published in Vogue Magazine. After a short marriage and move to Cairo, Miller met her future husband, the British surrealist painter Roland Penrose. They lived in Hampstead in London before moving to Farley Farmhouse in East Sussex. Like nearby Charleston, Farley become a centre for artistic experimentation, the interiors adorned with the art of visiting painters and sculptors. Pablo Picasso stayed in 1950, and Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning were visitors. British artists that were regular visitors included Eileen Agar, Kenneth Armitage, William Turnbull, John Craxton and Richard Hamilton. Lee Miller died at Farley Farmhouse in 1977.