![]() ![]() With the aggressive encouragement of friends and family, I’ve participated in a few showcases, began to sell my art, and embarked on creating an artist collective with a few friends.Ĭandidly, the process has been surreal, but the focus is still around freeing myself from the idea that the process and its results are anything but exactly what they should be. I’ve followed this concept, and luckily employment allows me to afford canvases and longboards to continue creating. Inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere, from Saturday morning cartoons, pop culture, album covers and artists, banzai trees, video games, quotes, and the Maryland state flag. Give yourself the freedom to suck at first, or the freedom to paint the same thing a few times, to learn, fail, try something new, youtube it (learned so much there), still suck, but ultimately enjoy your process, your creativity, and the freedom to be able to do it. It’s simply freeing yourself that you what you have in your head, has to happen right away, or that some artists/creators weren’t hot garbage at what they do at some point (like myself), or that your first attempt has to be just right. I’ve taken no formal classes, or done anything that would suggest a path that leads to painting or creating art. In short, Freeside Mills comes from freeing yourself from the idea that you can’t or are not something. From younger years to even now, the response most would agree they’ve heard or even said in response to seeing someone’s creativity is something along the lines of “I could never do that, I’m not creative like that”, and that always bothered me. The story of “Freeside Mills” is based less on events and more on the idea of “Keeping it Free”. For me it’s always been the easiest way for the patterns, concepts, colors and ideas that decide to show up at 1am to make their real-world debut.įast forward to now, having relocated to Santa Monica about two years ago. Not much time for the arts but even so I found myself spray painting longboards, bikes and random things for friends. There I majored in Neuroscience (did some moonlighting in Aerospace Engineering for a bit, for some comic relief), and played football as well. I was born and raised in the South and went to Princeton University. I never had any intent to become what I guess can be deemed an artist or a painter, but sometimes that stuff just kind of forces it’s way out of you. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.Ĭolors, drawing, painting, music, figurative language, basically any expression of the arts have always a part of my life and upbringing, whether I knew it or not. Thanks for sharing your story with us Brian. Today we’d like to introduce you to Brian Mills. ![]()
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