My name is Meghan Mills and I'm a visual artist living and working in Atlanta, GA.
Bio
Meghan is an Atlanta-based painter whose work transforms natural landscapes into layered, emotive worlds. Working primarily in oil, she uses the medium’s depth and flexibility to create color-saturated environments that feel more like memories than literal representations. Influenced by magical realism and impressionism, she builds scenes that ask viewers to slow down and consider how external landscapes can mirror their internal lives.
Her practice often draws on the lush overgrowth of the Southeast and the luminous light of the desert West, exploring themes of sensory memory, resilience, and the emotional undercurrents of place. She earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has exhibited at Gallery Chimera, The 1904 Gallery, and other regional venues, and her work has been featured in VoyageATL and BoldJourney. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and continues to develop new bodies of work that connect personal narrative with broader collective experience.
Statement
As a painter I strive to capture the emotive atmosphere of place through layered, abstracted landscapes. Working primarily in oil, I use the medium’s depth and flexibility to reveal the colors within colors and craft scenes that feel more like memories than literal representations.
Influenced by magical realism, impressionism and rooted in the belief that abstraction can feel more truthful than representation, my paintings transform familiar natural subjects into dreamy, color-saturated environments that distill rather than depict. From the lush textures of Atlanta to the luminous, otherworldly light of Southern Utah, each piece offers an intimate glimpse into how a place feels.
Each painting becomes a kind of sensory archive, a layered memory suspended in time. Through subtle movement, nuanced color palettes, and a delicate balance of spontaneity and control, my work invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between what is real and what is remembered. The result is a visual language that is at once intimate and expansive, full of whispering details, shifting atmospheres, and emotional undercurrents.
At the core of my work is a desire to slow down perception and make space for stillness and seeing deeply. My practice invites viewers to rediscover the quiet magic embedded in everyday landscapes.