Phillippa Mills is an artist & illustrator working from her studio on Dartmoor. She studied originally at Camberwell College of Arts, London. Her painterly approach to classical illustration carries a spectacular cohort of visual cross reference & memory, influenced among other things by childhood storybooks, high fashion & rooting through the surrounding hedgerows. Her idiosyncratic lines bring flora and fauna to life, alluding to the curious narratives they suggest. In her work she seeks to capture the pertinent emotion of her whimsical subjects who often display an air of pathos & unsettling beauty.
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“She had yellow legs, and webbed feet, and was considered a great beauty on account of her waddle.
’Quack, quack, quack,’ she said. ‘What a curious shape you are!
May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of a accident?”
