“Beauty is to me found when the mind reaches its end point. To engage this aspiration, as a painter, I seek to create images that are not previously known or named, in passages that hint at luminous sources often behind conjecture, unresolved flux and serendipity”
My work has a painter is informed and inspired by patterns observed in the natural world, be they energetic, sub-molecular, biologic or cosmic, even extending to theoretical notions of what we are made of. My imagination soars in the face of that which remains elusive to consciousness and our sense of scale and time, about what composes us and all that we think we know. I find humanity is in a fascinating and challenging position, working in the arts and sciences toward meaning and significance in a field that constantly eludes our deepest desire for certainty. Painting is for me, in this sense, active meditation.
Physically, my work as a painter involves in a process that combines mineral and metallic pigments, including brass, copper, mica and iron, often as tarnished surfaces. Branches of various kinds—ones that carry literary or colloquial connotations—including olive, yew, laurel, and other branches are used as essentially large brushes that register prints I the textures that I later articulate in paint with conventional brushes. The textured metallic pigments and painted surfaces shimmer as we move around them, creating multi-layered veils that remind of our deepest desires to explore without naming, to become poets of meaning, seers without reference to the already known. The eye is compelled to scan, to dwell in fascination, to embrace that which is greater than a single narrative or illusory image. What does it mean that the work was spanked or caressed with olive branches? With Laurel, with Yew?
Mills-Pinyas is a muralist, a painter and a printmaker living in Spain and the United States.





