Lauren Mills
Dyad, View 1, 17 x 14 x 16, Bronze "The figure for "Dryad" was sculpted from life, though I changed some aspects of the model to create a less realistic and more etherial feeling in which to depict the young naked tree spirit lamenting the passing of her protective home, the oak. I used the interwoven roots of the tree as a way to visually echo her crossed legs, making her one with the tree. I hoped to create a piece that portrayed the interconnected intimacy and oneness of living beings." -LM
“I am fascinated by the expressions of the human face, the language of the body, and the stories they tell. However, it is the mystery of the untold story each subject keeps hidden away that continually feeds my passion to create.” – LM
“I believe art is meant to be beautiful, to elicit compassion or to lift the spirit. Our surroundings should be filled with such art, and in every endeavor we undertake we ought to do it as artfully and beautifully as possible, considering the generations to come.”
-LM
Lauren A. Mills has won national acclaim as a sculptor, painter, and earlier, for her career as a book author and illustrator. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, libraries, and museums across the country including the National Museum of Women in the Women Arts, where she was the key note speaker for the exhibition.
Her sculpture, “Legacy” is installed at the Heritage Park Trail, Lake Winona, Indiana, and “Ebeneezer Reflecting” is in the permanent collection at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Lauren Mills is also an elected member of the National Sculpture Society Society, the National Sculptors’ , Guild, the Salmagundi Club, and the Western Massachusetts Society of Illustrators.
Recent acclaim for her portraiture work in sculpture and painting include First place from: the Portrait
Society of America Member Member’s Showcase, Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club Member Member’s Show Show, Academic Artist’s Association; and Merit or Finalist placements from the Art Renewal Center Interna-
tional Salon Exhibitions, National Sculpture Society Exhibitions, American Women Artists, Connecticut
Society of Portrait Artists where she also won “People’s Award”, the Guild of Boston ward”, Artists’ Regional Exhibition, Portrait Society of America and more.
Lauren has illustrated the children’s classics, At the Back of the North Wind, Anne of Green Gables and Thumbelina. The Rag Coat was her first original story. It received the Charlotte Award, thirteen state awards, has been told over the radio, has been performed as a ballet by the University of Utah,and received the Smithsonian’s “Season’s Choice” award. Fairy Wings, written by Lauren, and co-illustrated with Dennis Nolan, won the SCBWI Golden Kite illustrated Award. The New York Times described her
watercolors as “alluring… Whistlerian to the point of Pre-Raphaelitism.” Her book illustrations are
included in the collections of Keene State University University, University of Connecticut at Storrs, and the Mazza Collection, Finlay, Ohio.