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Painter and teacher, born in Hampshire. He served in the Royal Air Force, 1941–5, then studied painting at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1945–9. Taught part-time at Goldsmiths’ in 1950, later full-time in Hertfordshire, part-time at Chelsea School of Art from 1978, giving up all teaching in 1988. The development of rheumatoid arthritis in 1970, which later became more acute, and several heart attacks were problems for Mills, but he continued a prolific painter. Early on he was influenced by Klee and de Staël and later the American Expressionists. Painted abstracts, but these developed into gestural, juicy landscapes. Spain was a favourite subject after a visit to Ronda in 1980 as was the countryside around his home at Knighton, Powys.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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