About the Artist
Kaj, (rhymes with sky) has been drawing and painting home portraits for over ten years with commissions from coast to coast. He holds bachelor degrees in art and art education from the University of Nebraska and taught art at the high school level for several years.
His studies also included foreign language. He studied in Spain and Mexico and has extensively traveled to places in Europe, Latin America, which allowed him the opportunity to study works in many of the great museums in cities of the world.
From the time he was a young boy, Kaj showed a keen interest in drawing. His grandfather, Glenn Miler, was a noted illustrator and portrait artist who studied at the Chicago Art Institute. He pursued a successful art career in Kansas, Chicago, and Detroit. As a young boy Kaj learned at Granddad’s knee the basic principles of perspective, which he treasures to this day.
After college, Kaj worked as a freelance illustrator and held positions at an architecture firm in California and an art gallery in Arizona. Having taught and worked in the business world for several years, Kaj is currently producing oil paintings and enjoying his new experience of plein air landscape painting.
He is a member of the Columbia Art league and participates in several local art fairs each year. This past summer he received the 2nd Place award at “Art on 5th Street” in Fulton.
