About the Artist Trevor Mill has been painting since his teens and still hasn’t used up that tube of lemon yellow yet. The works are usually in oils but have incorporated human hair, coffee, coins, pollyfilla and cigarettes when needed. His influences are John Berger, Francis Bacon, Picasso, Irving Penn and David Bowie. His usual subjects are portraits of people, as the human face is by far the most interesting thing for another human to look at. Occasionally he’s been known to paint pigs, horses and swans too. He tries to paint things that photography doesn't capture well, the sense of the time it took to paint hopefully comes through, as well as texture playing an important part in the object. Trevor has exhibited at least two works a year in SquareArt at Golden Square since 2005. (He even got second prize in 2008.) He also had a solo show at Freud’s in Oxford in 1992 which had 32 paintings/sculptures, and one of his paintings reached the last 60 of the NPG's portrait award out of around 2000 artworks.
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