St. Andrews-based artist, consultant and U of M bachelor of fine arts graduate Jordan Miller will soon be featured at the 210 Gallery starting March 6. The gallery will be showing her exhibition Soulful Seasons, Transitions of Change, with the opening night a part of First Fridays in the Exchange.

Miller paints with a distinct style of scraping, rather than traditional brushwork. Her pieces are typically comprised of vibrant pools of colour and topped with glossy varnish and constellations of white dots. Recently, she has also begun incorporating layers of swiped alcohol ink and experimenting with manipulating paper. She creates nearly all of these works by intuition rather than with any plan or concept in mind.

Lately, her intuition has unintentionally resulted in compositions resembling landscapes. Leaning into the idea of landscapes, Miller will exhibit these works in her show Soulful Seasons, Transitions of Change, which is organized by colour palette into four sections — spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The season-based approach to curation also gives Miller the opportunity to reflect on the past year and how drastically her life has changed since last winter. She spent most of 2025 unable to speak or breathe properly due to her state of health and an ensuing full hysterectomy. 

Last November, she began a new pharmaceutical treatment that enabled her to return to painting in the months since. However, her mobility is still limited. She attributed the creation of her landscape paintings to her longing for nature.

“It’s […] interesting just to let my mind go free,” Miller explained. “I think that, because I live in the prairies, [because] I live in nice open air and I’m trying to relax when I create, that that’s where my mind goes because that’s what I really enjoy. I used to like hiking when I was physically able to, and biking and skiing and all those things. So naturally mountains are […] something that I look back to as good moments in my life.” 

Miller’s latest works are smaller than what she has typically painted over her career, due to the limits of her new studio. Until 2025, Miller was the owner of Cre8ery Gallery & Studio in the Exchange District. It operated for many years until Miller’s ill health became insurmountable. She now continues to help Manitoban artists sell their work online with her new venture, ShopArtMb.

“I’m looking forward to just connecting with people and having them connect with my art, more so […] than any other time of my life,” Miller said. “[At Cre8ery] I was surrounded by people all the time […] now I’m really appreciating those people that I had [who] surrounded me.”

For six months of 2025, Miller mentored a group of nine rural and northern Manitoban artists in a guided program with the 210 Gallery. It culminated in their feature show Nine Perspectives in the 210 Gallery throughout January and February.

Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba will soon welcome Miller to chair its board of directors, another way for her to stay involved with the arts community. The position is currently filled by Diane Driedger, who will co-chair with Miller for the next year to ease the transition. Miller noted that, apart from Cre8ery, not many galleries in Manitoba are often accepting new artists, so she hopes to create more accessible opportunities as the new chair.

Soulful Seasons, Transitions of Change will remain at the 210 Gallery until April 4. Miller will also be showing her art at the Winnipeg Fine Art Fair in April.