Was born  into the small mining community of Springside a few miles outside the town of Kilmarnock on the west coast of Scotland. Life within the small Scottish village was very traditional although Millar grew up in the 60′s it felt more like the 40′s. His formative years were spent in the company of old men dressed in dark suits smoking  Woodbines partnered with large missile shaped women deck out in headscarves and pinnies.

Alexander Millar escaped school in 1976 and eventually fled Springside to set himself up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  This jump from sleepy peacefulness to hustle and bustle was like going from the frying pan straight into the fire.  Alexander Millar found that Newcastle had and still has, its fair share of characters know locally as Gadgies which fed him much inspiration later on in life when he finally discovered his destiny as an Artist. After a number of jobs Millar finally settled down in1988 to become a professional artist. Being completely self taught and after many of developing his own style , Millar turned to the images remembered from his childhood and used the Tyneside ‘Gadgies’ as models in his paintings.

Millar is continually surprised to see the effects that his paintings have on people, on many occasions Millar has had women moved to tears absorbed by a painting that evokes memories of a father or grandfather. Afte4r a number of sell out exhibitions one of Millar’s paintings was entered in The Daily Mail’s ‘Not the Turner Prize’.  Ten thousand works were entered and Millar’s painting was chosen as one of the finalists and exhibited at theMall Galleries in London.