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Nature and the divine feminine, in oil, egg tempera and gold leaf

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Detail of a painting: a child with a halo of pale curls in a dark robe, arms crossed, looking at the viewer
Keeping Vigil (detail) · oil on panel · 12 x 24 in · Collection of the Art Renewal Center
“Alluring… to the point of Pre-Raphaelitism.”
The New York Times
“Exquisite… complex… and radiant.”
The Washington Post
“Bewitching.”
Smithsonian
Painting of a red-haired woman in a white gown seated on a mossy bank
Paintings
Oil, egg tempera, gold and silver leaf
Charcoal drawing of a young woman with a cloud of curls
Drawings
Charcoal, graphite and silverpoint
Botanical watercolor of a drooping pink rosebud
Watercolors
Botanicals and figures
Bronze figure of a dancer balanced on one foot, arms raised
Sculpture
Bronze figures and portraits

Selected works

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Portrait painting of a red-haired woman in a black cloak scattered with moths, a rose in her hair
Winter Moth · oil on panel · 12 x 16 in
Painting of a woman in a gold shawl turning toward white roses in a dark garden
Entre Deux Mondes · oil on panel · 16 x 20 in
Black and white portrait photograph of Lauren Mills, smiling and looking to one side
The artist

Lauren A. Mills

Lauren Ainsworth Mills is a painter, sculptor, and the author and illustrator of picture books. She earned her BA in Drawing and Painting from UC Santa Barbara, California, and her Master’s in Book Illustration from San Jose State University, California, before training at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and the Grand Central Atelier in New York. She works in oil, egg tempera and watercolor, often applying gold or silver leaf, and paints the bond between nature and the divine feminine. Her work is shaped by the Pre-Raphaelite, Tonalist and Symbolist painters of the nineteenth century.

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