‘Existence’ Painting

Millie Fry is a fine artist who is currently based on the South Coast of England. In 2017 she achieved a Distinction in Art and Design at Arts University Bournemouth. It was there she realised she wanted to pursue a career as an artist and since then has been developing and fine tuning her self-taught skills as an Oil Painter.   Through growing up on the South Coast and travelling many beautiful parts of the World, her surroundings have immensely inspired her work. Most recently Millie has spent time in the French Alps, the beautiful and dramatic landscape provides endless inspiration for her latest Alpine Series. Whilst she uses the natural environment as a starting point, her imagination takes the lead role in creating her atmospheric oil paintings.   Her fascination and exploratory use of oils, has allowed her to develop her skill set in this rich and versatile medium. Millie enjoys to paint on a large scale as this allows her to become immersed in the painting, creating atmosphere and space for the viewer to be drawn into.   Through selling work in Galleries along the South coast and predominantly on her own platform, Millie’s collectors continue to grow.  Her work is sold internationally, and hangs in many homes across the World, including Europe, the United States and Australia. Artist Statement My admiration for the beauty of the natural world is the starting point to the majority of my work, physical experiences in natural environments ignite my imagination to create ethereal landscapes, energetic seascapes and colourful abstract oil paintings. I am inspired not only by what I have seen, but the thoughts and feelings I have experienced in those specific locations. These emotions are revisited when creating my oil paintings, providing an emotional as well as observational response. Instead of replicating something I have seen in nature directly, I intend to create something new and original but familiar for the viewer to relate to, with a dreamlike atmosphere. When I paint, the process allows me to be immersed in what I am creating, it is therapeutic to focus solely on the method of seamlessly blending the paint alongside rhythmically adding texture and often delicate detail onto the canvas. My love for colour means my work is often bright and vivid. I frequently revisit tones of blue in my work.