Artist's Projects
Lauren A. Mills is a classically trained painter and sculptor but is mostly known for her children’s books, especially her own and retold fairy tales. Mills illustrated Anne of Green Gables, At the Back of the North Wind and her own authored book, The Rag Coat which won numerous awards, including New York State’s Charlotte Award for Best Picture Book. Fairy Wings, written by Mills and co-illustrated with her late husband, Dennis Nolan, won the Golden Kite Medal for Best Picture Book from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Illustrations from several of Mills’ books toured the United States in a show called,“Brave Little Girls”, after its first exhibition at the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Mills’ work has been included in the Spectrum’s Best of Fantastic Art, and IX Arts of Imaginative Realism.The NY Times described Mills’ watercolours for Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins as “Alluring…to the point of Pre-Raphaelitism” and the Washington Post wrote of her watercolours for The Rag Coat, “exquisite…complex…. and radiant.” Mills has taught illustration in the MFA Illustration Program at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Connecticut and at the Hollins University in Virginia.
Testimony relative to Lauren Mills teaching
