Artist Bio Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the well-known Mills Brothers Circus family. Both performing and visual arts were admired and encouraged. Holding a BFA in performing arts and a Masters in choreography she is self-taught as a painter. Mills has developed a style distinctly her own. She resides in Santa Fe, NM. Artist’s Statement My work is born out of my need and desire to simplify and/or reduce each moment to its absolute essential, by removing details from life that tend to obscure what is truly being experienced. It is also my desire to bear witness to, and often to lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. I work in oil on canvas, linen, birch panel, paper, and sometimes cardboard as I am attracted to surfaces and the way in which the paint soaks in or lays on the surface. I often use many layers of oil paint in the belief that color carries (along with beauty) emotional content and memory even if its buried color with color under color Gigi's Sculpture Gig's Paintings2021 Show - Magpie