Born: 1972 Quebec
Studio/Owner The Art Factory, 11 Bridge Street, Renfrew, Canada, ON K7V 3R1
Education: Concordia University Montreal
Engineering/Fine Art
Dear Peggy
In answer to your questions: Why Bird Woman ? I have been doing Bird Man... many paintings. The idea of flying, freedom, movement, flow has been a undercurrent theme in my paintings for some time now
The Tube Map series of paintings are a modern landscape. Since coming to London I have wished to do paintings of London. But Monet did Westminster and the Thames. Pissarro did rural landscapes outside of London. Turner did so many brilliant landscapes. For many years I searched London for my secret special location. But inner resistance prevented me. It seemed redundant to paint Saint Pauls or Big Ben. To paint in a traditional manner a landscape of London was not something I could feel sincere about.
The London Underground has a design, a structure, a colour field. It is something that is the central nervous system to the city. Living in London for six years I have travelled on the underground on many occasions. Watching people, talking, having conversations with individuals, thinking, contemplating. Being stuck on the underground, or being squeezed on trains. Forget about getting a seat... Can I get on the fuckin' train... period. I really love London. It is a great city. So the Study of the Underground paintings are filled with colour, vibrancy, texture, transparency, depth and passion.
I hope this helps you with your questions... with love Patrick
P.S . "I am happy and focused on doing some new painting, the sunshine is great, and the light is really keeping my eyes open and light is entering my paintbrush"
Poem: Dear Theo (tribute to Vincent van Gogh) (Sun Flower Man)
Vincent face the sun - hold on to your gun - Can you hear me? - See me?
I am a chair - I am a flower - Blowin' in the open field - Sunflower seeds harvesting -Inside of me
Vibrating grass - empty canvas- Now there is nothing left - but these cold paintings -these vibrating portraitsand couples walking hand in hand
Dear Brother Do you understand? Do you have light? in this starry night.
PATRICK JOHN MILLS 2005.
1998: When you live in Canada you are privileged by all the landscape. The mountains, the sea, the vast space,and forests with endless trees. When I moved to London, the shock of moving filtrated into my studio …so a few months after arriving I started a series of paintings about the London Underground Tube Map. It is very textured and consists of many layers of oil paint. I worked on it for two months now it is proudly hung in Moulay Rachid’s palace in Morocco. See image ‘Study of the Underground’ 40x 60 inches.
BIRD WOMAN
The Modern Family Series - p.oa.
127 x 107 cm / 50 x 42 in. Oil on linen
Forty Weeks -
107 x 234 cm / 42 x 92 in. Oil on linen. p.o.a
Tube Map Series 6
67 x 103 cm/ 26.7 x4 0.5 in. Oil on linen Price on application
Available to view in gallery
London Tube Map Series 4
122 x 74 x 5cm / 48 x 28 in. Oil on linen Price on application
Available to view in gallery
London Tube Map Series 5
91 x 81 cm / 36 x 24 in. Oil on linen Price on application
London Tube Map Series 1
92x67x3 cm - Oil on linen Price on application -
London Tube Map Series 2
123 x 87 cm Oil on linen Price on application
London Tube Map Series 3
145 x 97 cm Oil on linen Price on application
Study of the Underground 1998 - 40x60inches - Sold
Patricks Head - p.o.a
Mixed medium onA4 cartridge paper - unframed
Three Voices - £800
41 x 51 cm Oil on linen
Sunflower Man
36 x 48 in. / /91.5 x 122 cm Oil on linen - P.O.A
Day and Night - p.o.a
97 x 214 cm / 42 x 92 in. Oil on linen
Study for a Portrait
Mixed medium on A4 cartridge paper. Price on application
Flowers
Oil on linen
Paint Pot
40 x 30 cm Oil on linen
Woman - sold
Oil on linen 120x80cm - Private Collection USA
The Modern Family Series Tribe 1
Oil on linen - Private Collection
The Modern Family Series Tribe 1
50x44 ins Oil on linen
Study for a Portrait - Private Collection
26 x 30 cm Oil on linen
The Family
Oil on linen 120 x 240cm approx
Bird Woman
91.5 x122 cm / 36 x 48 inches Oil on linen
Blue Wave - £3000
214 x 76 cm oil on canvas
Self Portrait III - nfs
26 x 30cm Oil on linen
Self Portrait - nfs
Patrick John Mills 26 x 30 cm
Lovers
15 x10 in.Oil on linen - Private collection
With Love From Patrick - Private Collection
12 x 8 in.Oil on linen Modern Artists Gallery
Patrick John Mills - Painting on the beach -Southend on Sea July 2002
