Paula Mills Art

Sweet William will have a new range of prints available at Markit on Sunday the 8th of May at Federation Square, Melbourne. Always a brilliant, creative shopping event, not to be missed!

For 5 days only, head over to hardtofind.com.au  for an end of season sale - 30% off Sweet William Art Prints from Friday11 to Wednesday 16 March 2016!

New work entitled Shine Brigt No.1 and No.2 now available online through etsy.

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We can now offer all Sweet William Prints in three sizes - A5, A4 and A3. Here is a shot of the three sizes framed - they would fit  5x7, 8x10 and 11x16 inch frames. All our prints are available from our etsy shop here .

I could spend hours loosing my self in a world of colour and ink in my studio making happy abstract messy paintings.  Here are some pieces I  have been working on. These pieces will eventually make their way to our etys shop as archival quality art prints but I am just too busy having fun with my brushes right now!

Sweet William is having a 30% off sale on all prints at hardtofind.com.au   Hurry, sale ends Thursday 21st Nov!

Look - there is my Pink Mountain Journey Print! Look there is Blue Collage and Meet Me In The Air Ghost Patrol doing window of the new shop  I am so thrilled to have Sweet William prints stocked in one of Melbourne's coolest Print Shops - Signed  and Numbered . I am even more thrilled as they have just opened a second shop in Degraves Street in the city! You can follow Signed and Numbered on Facebook here , their  blog here  and @signedandnumbered on instagram. Can't wait to pop in check out the new shop!

We are very excited about   City Mob  (based in South Africa) for featuring Sweet William and offering a wide range of our prints as A2 size posters at a brilliant price! Wahoo, largest size we have ever had our images printed - hurry, on sale for 10 days only! My sister and I are from South Africa originally and so it was always our wish to be able to sell our work in our homeland. This was made possible by my sister in law who lives in CapeTown, who owns a small creative business called Fronella Design Delights   and who now distributes our range in South Africa. We are also very excited about the fact that a percentage of all these sales go to a South African children's charity called True North -   Little Too Much . Very happy with all of that!

We are super duper excited about our A3 size posters ! These are of original pen and ink drawing done by myself, Paula Mills. The A3 posters are printed on a high quality, recycled, matt paper using vegetable based inks. The actual artwork measures 420mm x 297mm.(16.5x11.7 inches) and fits perfectly into the Ikea Ribba 40x50 cm frame plus mount (as pictured in first shot). There are six designs to choose from in the poster range .  We do a bigger print run on the posters therefore we are able to offer them at a brilliant price! YAY!

I think one of the challenges of an artist or illustrator is working out your own 'personal style'.  Finding a style that feels comfortable and that comes easily, is quite a challenge. Then, just when you feel you are settling into something which you can claim as your own  - wham! A whole new direction comes along! I suppose it is good to embrace change and never stagnate. I do love a bit of diversity. I have been very inspired by all the bright colours, clean geometric shapes and graphics that are around at the moment. (Check out Marimekko's website for a big dose of bright poppy graphics - amazing!) While I have always been drawn to colour and pattern, have dabbled with a bit of collage and abstract work, I will admit that these four pieces of work are quite different to anything else I have done...but I am still happy for them to sit amongst the rest of the Sweet William creations because at the end of the day they are still unique to me. I hope you enjoy...

The first two prints are dedicated to my favourite band - I am a huge Mumford and Sons fan! I could listen to their music non stop for hours. I find their music very inspiring, the lyrics are deep and moving. I had the the privilege of seeing them perform live in Melbourne and I have been meaning to put together these prints for ages. Awake my soul is just a brilliant song and the other print is entitled Grace, which goes to the lyric: 'grace on her heart and flowers in her hair' ....beautiful. The other two prints are pieces of work that have been hanging around my studio for awhile now and so I am glad I have finally committed them to paper. These prints are for sale in our Etsy shop. Happy Friday to you all!

That's me, Paula, at my Sweet William stall in Melbourne These beautiful photographs were taken by the very talented Tigs Macallan . They are of the Sweet William stall set up at Finders Keepers in Melbourne. Setting up a stall can be just as much fun (and hard work) as creating the art work! I love it and I am so happy with these shots. You can view more shots over on my flickr stream  here .

Mothers everywhere are well worth celebrating! We have quiet a few prints and cards that would be well received on Mother's Day the 5th May. You can view them in our etsy shop here .