Gabriel Mills focuses on themes of time, love, and place through a varied and deeply contemplative approach to painting. Classically trained, he balances disciplined formal elements—such as tension, harmony, and compositional unity—with the meditative and transformative possibilities inherent in the medium. Each canvas serves as a space for personal reflection and excavation. His paintings confront the fear of empty space on the canvas with dense, all-over abstractions that balance chaos and order. Characterized by a tactile rawness, Mills’s work combines thick, sculptural impasto with delicate pools of pigment and fragile surfaces that appear to flake or peel. These visceral qualities evoke both bodily forms and geological landscapes—fragile yet abundant, organic yet elemental. Through this synthesis of materiality and emotion, Mills creates immersive visual spaces where painting acts as both a physical and introspective journey, exploring the complexities of existence through layered texture and form. ...
