I Love You Painting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQO_ISugE8 It’s time to celebrate the journey, the recovery, the love. My new series, “Life is Beautiful” is my way of communicating the love, feelings, gratitude and spiritual energy that were such an integral part of the last two years of my life, from cancer diagnosis to ICU and finally back to my studio. From The Humm Art… and Soul For starters, he’s six-foot-three. He paints huge, mesmerizing abstracts. He’s incredibly intense and passionate about art and life and helping people. He’s all in. Patrick John Mills is a force of nature. And that’s when he’s in the middle of his fourth round of chemotherapy to hold his CLL (Chronic lymphocytic leukemia) at bay. His life is much too compelling and challenging and rewarding to loosen his grip on it. He actually describes having cancer as a gift — it has “prolonged my waltz with death. It is a fundamental, beautiful inspiration that is so raw, so intense, so conducive to me being who I am.” His unflinching embrace of a verdict that could completely incapacitate has the opposite effect. “As difficult as it is, I love it. I have to train myself to have control over what I think about — what I marinate my mind in…” His response is very much in tune with his musical tastes: “I love listening to intense music — the rage, the full-on freedom of artists like Kurt Cobain.” Mills occupies a headspace when he’s painting that he characterizes as “improvisation, freedom, I’m the exponential king of liberation, of movement…” Patrick paints like he lives. His poem expresses it very well: I am a starving artist I am starving for understanding I am starving for truth I am starving for acceptance Searching for freedom Dreaming in colour A little boy dressed up as a clown Releases a handful of balloons Into the sky And walks across the street His exuberant abstracts are... read the full article at .cfm?articleid=3153