Paula Mills Art

So lovely to see my home and my work featured on Design Sponge . You can read the full article here .

I have been painting in acrylic more and more lately, which I love - and bigger too! I am considering putting together a body of work for a small exhibition of works on canvas - which feels so new, exciting and scary to me! But we just have to keep pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones, don't we? The image above is of one of my larger paintings "Pink Protea Painting" with a some of my smaller pieces along side it, all hanging above my blue couch in my living room.

Artwork in our living room A mixture of originals, vintage and prints Artwork by Ali McNabney Stevens and Sweet William Prints Sweet William prints Slowly but surely we are putting our new home together, piece by piece. One of the things I love the most about our Edwardian home, is the height of the ceilings. While this gives our home a sense of grandeur and space, it has given us new challenges with regards to our art collection. Over the years we have picked up pieces of original artwork from places we have visited and from people that have inspired us. These pieces, mixed in with my artwork and the work of dear friends, has created a lovely eclectic art collection that we our proud of. While it would have been wonderful to have continued to fill our walls with original artwork, unfortunately our budget has not allowed for that! Therefore we were very pleased to come across these beautiful big vintage botanical prints from erstwhile and feel they have pulled ...

Entrance way when we first bought our home. Beautiful old red brick revealed under cracking plaster. My girls outside our entrance. We hired painters to help patch up walls and refresh the paint job. We have wonderful Art Deco lead light windows. As it looked when we bought it. Beautiful textures on the old walls. Original Edwardian tiles The successful  auction day! Move in day.  Finding places for all our things in our new space. After many happy years of living in semi-rural, beautiful Warrandyte (24 km east of Melbourne CBD see previous post here ). Where our primary school aged kids benefitted from a tire swing in the yard and the Australian bush, we decided on a complete change. With our three girls growing up, recognising their need for independence and wanting to embrace all that Melbourne has to offer as one of the most 'livable cities in the world', we set our plan to move in, in motion. We chose a very good co...