Gigi Mills was born in Ohio into the well known Mills Brothers Circus family. Both performing and the plastic arts were admired and encouraged. Holding a BFA in performing arts and a Masters in choreography she is self-taught as a painter. Ms Mills has developed a style distinctly her own. She resides in Santa Fe, NM. with her Dog Monte and Partner. About her work and process she says: "My work is born out of my desire to simplify. To reduce each moment to its essential, by removing details from life that tend to obscure and create too much noise around what is truly being experienced. It is also my aim to bare witness to, and often 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 like memories under layer upon layer."