This Friday’s featured artist is Patrick John Mills and his study of the London Underground.
Using a pocket guide to the London Underground as a reference, Mills created richly textured map paintings.
These paintings bring back such fond memories of studying art history abroad in London, living off the Russell Square stop. I still have my pocket guide to the London Underground!
Using a pocket guide to the London Underground as a reference, Mills created richly textured map paintings.
These paintings bring back such fond memories of studying art history abroad in London, living off the Russell Square stop. I still have my pocket guide to the London Underground!
He writes:
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 in the Summer of 1998 to be with my wife. The shock of moving to a new country filtrated into my studio... so a few months after arriving into this city I started a series of painting about the London Underground.
The Tube Map is such an amazing subject matter to explore. It is a modern landscape.
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 in the Summer of 1998 to be with my wife. The shock of moving to a new country filtrated into my studio... so a few months after arriving into this city I started a series of painting about the London Underground.
The Tube Map is such an amazing subject matter to explore. It is a modern landscape.
Below are details of his work:
Learn more about Patrick John Mills at his website here!
TGIF!
Mary^
TGIF!
Mary^