Friday, March 23, 2012

T - Shirts : Eat, Sleep, Shit, Live, Breathe, Cry, Love, Fuck, dream, Kiss, ART


This T - Shirt will be available to purchase very soon.

$20

All sizes in male and female fits.


Also the gallery will be adding a SHOP button on the navigation bar of the gallery website. So there will be online shopping for such items.... will be up and online early next week.,





Wednesday, March 21, 2012

 
Salut les amis c'est pour:  QUIT Your JOB !!!!
Who like painting MUST quit!!!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Spring is inside my Soul


Inside my Studio. oil on canvas. 32 x 60 inches. Spring 2011. Price: $2800


I just came back from my studio. It was the first time I had been in there since my wife and I separated. We had been together for 17 years.  I had not been in my studio since October.  Four and a half months later.  I went back into my studio 20 mins ago.

Fuck me. 

The energy in that space was intense.  What a shit hole.

It is time to really change the energy of that space. 

My soul needs sunshine in that creative space. 

Inside my soul there is a window to new. 

My time in New York with Alex and painting in Gedney Park has been a rainbow. 

Now it is time to enter back into my studio. 

For the past four and a half months I have been painting outside in parks, down town Ottawa in the winter, at my kitchen table, inside the gallery.... next I go back in my studio down the street from my home and gallery. 

I will have to clean out that space. And put up all blank white canvases.

Next month is Quit Your Job  exhibition.  I am going to paint the gallery walls and floor.  Clean fresh. Pure White.  Bleach my Mind.

Spring is inside my Soul.

Time to hold the rainbow and shine.

kiss eat paint

Patrick

www.PatrickJohnMills.ca

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Quit Your Job. Become a Drug Addict. NOT!


 Everyone is getting ready for the next show, Quit Your Job.

While we continue to enjoy the current show, I have Issues, you'll note that the two themes have something in common.

Many people have issues with their jobs, with the way their lives are going...or not going. Would it be fair to say that more than a few would like to chuck it all and do what they want to? And in some cases, this would be art or music or poetry. No one quits their job to become a wage-slave of a different stripe.

And if the Quirky B. pop art keyboard above suggests that some people quit  their jobs because they've turned to drugs, this could be so but probably not. You don't necessarily quit work due to bad habits. Could be a factor but to follow your dream takes focus and courage and application; drugs and booze are not known for providing much of this.

The above board is fashioned from items provided in the City of Ottawa's Crack Kit, a controversial initiative that is euphemistically called, harm-reduction.

This is one of several Quirky B's that will be included in Quit Your Job which opens Thursday, April 5, 2012.
For the first time since I started creating pop art keyboards four years ago, I am pleased to announce that limited edition prints of a selection of the boards, framed or unframed, will be available. 

New Chapter - Headache


Head in head. oil on fame and plywood. Summer 2005 Price: $1100
Painting by Patrick John Mills.


In 2006 New Chapter
approached me about using one of my painting images on their products.  Sure why not.  They sent me some money. A very large gift basket.  Very kind.   The above product is available all over the world.  Just wanted to say thank you to New Chapter for all their help.    


I have never shown this painting.  Next month  I will be putting in on exhibition in the gallery for QUIT YOUR JOB exhibition. 

The colours I choose for this painting were warm and cool colours. Passion and fire in the heart. Saddness in the Mind. Trying to not think too much. And the little voice inside your head keeps talking.

http://www.patrickjohnmills.com/headinhead.htm



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