Ronnie Miller · Ohio
The best pieces do not hide the stone. They let you see where it came from.
Ronnie learned to read flint from his father,Roy Miller, whose own work has helped carry the Flint Ridge tradition forward for decades.
Flint Ridge chert spends thousands of years beneath the Ohio ground before becoming a finished work. Ronnie owns the Flint Ridge ground he works and excavates and hand-selects each stone himself. Certain deposits hold natural honey and cream, iron-rich rose, smoky gray, and green colors found only in his flint. Those colors are never painted or added, and another maker cannot reproduce them from a different stone source.
After the stone is dried and studied, Ronnie works each nodule using percussion and pressure flaking to establish line, symmetry, and a fine finished edge. He follows the material rather than forcing every piece toward the same shape, transforming ancient stone into modern lithic art.
The pieces offered here are made for collectors and display. Some are compact points, others are larger blades or sculptural forms. All are sold directly by Ronnie, without a gallery between the maker and the person taking the work home.