Born: 1972 Quebec
 Lives: UK/Ottawa
 Education: Concordia University Montreal  Engineering/Fine Art

 Patrick John Mills  International Award Winning Poet and Abstract Painter is represented by the Modern Artists Gallery UK

Dear Peggy
Why did I do the '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 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"

RAW NAKED SOUL  A Paperback Journey into Patrick's Mind

Patrick John Mills,  International Award Winning Poet and Abstract Painter and owner of the PJM Gallery in Ontario.Has  recently published a book that encompasses the multi-faceted experiences of his artistic life.  Raw Naked Soul  is a collection of paintings, international award winning poems, as well as posters used to promote his own  gallery’s exhibitions and stories about painting on location in the extreme cold of Canadian winters. It constitutes an ambitious attempt at summarizing the many works he has been pursuing in the field of art and presents his stripped bare, bold vision of artistic expression intimately tied to his everyday life. This book is a testimony that really cuts to the chase.

Contact the gallery to buy this paperback  journey into Patrick’s mind. £12.95 + pp (UK)

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  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 portraits

and couples walking hand in hand

Dear Brother

Do you understand?

Do you have light?

in this starry night.

Patrick John Mills   1995