Sophia Milligan Art Paintings

'Dawn Lake (Blue Ridge Mountains)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ The dawn is painting transient layered reflections in the water, shifting the softened space between whe...

'Lugar de Encuentro (Montes de Malaga)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ The evening light is creating layered lines and meeting places in the mountains, that only exist in...

'Midsummer's Noon' Original Artwork. Unframed ________________________ With transitory beauty, the sunflower turns to face the brazen light of the solstice sun. 'Midsummer's Noon' ...

'Omvetya V (Cypress, Mist)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ Fog along the shoreline, obscuring the boundaries between the land, air and ocean. I remember the worn stones, t...

'Scarlet Dreams'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ Exploring the flux and balance in the nature of all things, 'Scarlet Dreams' captures an essence of the equ...

'Omvetya IV (Reeds, Winter's Morn)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ Crisp winter shadows, cast over weather and sea worn stone, the reeds are whispering softly in the morn...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'Great Strength' Original Artwork _________________ The soft petals of the gladiolus flowers unfurl, simultaneously fleeting yet wrapp...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'As You Climbed Towards That Infinite Blueness' Original Artwork _________________ Capturing the flush of summer, the roses climb and tumble simultaneously in a cont...

'Fall Fog, Approaching'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ Heavy skies moving in over the autumnal landscape of West Cornwall: a ...

'Acantilado Perfumado' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________________ Winter sun bouncing off languorous waters onto scented cliffs of wild rosemary and lavender, their roots ent...

'Just for One Day'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ Such sensual fullness, intoxicating in it's momentary glamour, for tomorrow the petals will fall softly l...

'Piercing Shafts' Original artwork, framed ready to hang _________________ Yucca leaves: lances and swords, flashing shafts of sunlight through the piercing forms, a dance of loyalt...

'Rising from your Roots' Original Artwork, Unframed ______________________ Capturing the flush of fleeting youth, the cherry blossoms blush crimson as the sap rises through branches...

'Blood in the Veins' Original Artwork, Unframed. _____________________ Capturing the flush of fleeting youth, the cherry blossoms blush crimson as the sap pulses through branches, b...

'The Cherry Blushes' Original Artwork, Unframed ______________________ Capturing the flush of fleeting youth, the cherry blossoms blush crimson as the sap rises through branches, bu...

'The Pulse Of Spring' Original Artwork _________________ Capturing the pulse and flush of fleeting youth, in the throb of spring the maples are dressed in their iridescent finery. '...

'The Sap is Rising!' Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ Capturing the pulse and flush of fleeting youth, the maples are dressed in their iridescent finery. 'The Sap Is Ris...

'Towards Le Scathe Cove'. Contemporary mixed media landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ January morning, heavy swell and a strong southwester, rain imminent, sheltering beneath lichen furred granite outcrops. A plein air painting from the series 'Holan ha Dor' (Meaning 'Salt and Earth in Cornish). West Cornwall is a harshly beautiful peninsula, jutting out into the wild tireless ocean, shaped and moulded by powerful salt laden Atlantic winds, and criss-crossed by ancient, tangled hedgerows. Drawn to the immediacy of moments, underpinned by enduring narratives, Sophia's fluid expressive paintings explores the flux and balance in the nature of all things: The freedom of the air and solidity of the soil; Of anchored stone and rhythmic water; Of human narratives written in the wild landscapes; In the sensual interplay of light and shadow. They capture an essence of the equilibrium between wild raw energy and serene stillness; chaos and harmony; and the enduring and the effervescent. Mixed media on watercolour paper Signed and inscribed Unframed 23 x 30cm / 9 x 12 inches __________________________ About The Artist Sophia Milligan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, exploring discourses on permanence & evanescence; the eternal, cyclical absolutes of birth & death; motherhood & childhood; and ancient immutable connections. With resonating ripples of intuition and instinct Sophia illuminates the presence of the ordinary, creating moments of sublime present. 'Born among the wild cliffs and tempestuous seas of west Cornwall, I grew with the intimate details in the twisting lanes and the intense changing light throughout the turbulent seasons. I formed a primordial connection with a deep instinctual sense of being part of the natural narrative, and wherever in the world I may be, this connectivity underpins my practice. Like the wind sculpted hawthorns and sensual coves of weather worn granite, I have been shaped by the powerful energy entwined in this ancient raw environment.’ ‘We are the stories of the journeys that came before. I weave into my work the tales of transitory circumstance; of struggle and survival; of forms and textures holding records of evolutionary millennia. I paint, I draw: with marks, mixtures, photography, words; the raw earth; the restless oceans; the whispered breeze. I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within, giving subtleties of existence a pause for contemplation. There is beauty in such poignant breaths. All moments are significant, every pebble of now forms the vast mountain of yesterday, and the great realm of tomorrow's possibilities'. Sophia has a 1st class honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts and World History, and a Masters Degree in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work is held in prestigious international private collections, and exhibitions of her interactive, immersive installation, photography and mixed media works include 'Tabula Rasa', London; 'Superlative', Plymouth; 'Transition', Newlyn; The Eden Project, Cornwall; The European Parliament, Brussels; Kew Gardens, London; and 'The Cameraless Film Festival', Chicago...

'Ribbons in the Wind'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ Reeds dance in the morning light, momentarily casting shadows on tide and weather softened stones. Exp...

'Ebren Ha Dor, Tremenus'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high a...

'Ebren Ha Dor, September, Softening'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies,...

'Silk and Blood' Original Artwork. Framed, ready to hang __________________________ “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – ...

'Silk, Blood and Thorns' Original Artwork. Framed, ready to hang ___________________________________ "But he, that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose." - Anne Bronte...

'Ebren ha Dor, High Cirrus from the South West, September' Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high above the ...

'Louisiana Irises (I Burned As You Bloomed)' Original artwork. Framed, ready to hang ___________________ Blazing heat and azure sky, glamorous flamboyant blooms, the exquisite flush...

'Beautiful Neglect' Original Artwork _____________________ A forgotten corner, sumptuous in its abundant web of life, all the more beautiful for it's neglected freedom. With roots i...

'Gratitude and Grace (Worn out Blue Jeans and Hydrangeas in September)' Original Artwork, Unframed _____________________ Early Autumnal nostalgia, hazy light on pillows of fading hy...

'Nine Settlement Valley' Original artwork, unframed ____________________ We are all the stories of the journeys that have come before: of the migrations and movements, of the free a...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'August Remembered' Original Artwork. Unframed _________________ The eucalyptus is swaying softly this morning, dancing with it's shad...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'Transient Beauty' Original Artwork __________________________ The red lily, symbol of passion, love, motherhood, fertility and good fortune. Flashing shafts of sunli...

'Ebren Ha Dor, Shifting Sky'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high above the the landscape of West Cornwall: a harshly beautiful peninsula, jutting out into the wild tireless ocean, shaped and moulded by powerful salt laden Atlantic winds. Criss-crossed by ancient, tangled hedgerows marking the stories of the leathered, labour-roughened hands worn like the granite, coloured as the bronze bracken covered land they toiled endlessly to tame, carving spaces of sanctuary against the raw elements. A plein air painting from the series 'Ebren ha Dor' (Meaning 'Sky and Earth in Cornish). In this series, Sophia's fluid expressive style captures the immediacy of the changing light in the seasonal landscapes, whilst exploring flux and balance in the nature of all things: The freedom of the air and solidity of the soil; Of human narratives written in the wild landscapes; in the sensual interplay of light and shadow. They capture an essence of the equilibrium between wild raw energy and serene stillness; chaos and harmony; and the enduring and the effervescent. Acrylic ink on handmade rough edge watercolour paper Signed in pencil to the lower right corner 30 x 30cm / 12 x 12 inches __________________________ About The Artist Sophia Milligan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, exploring discourses on permanence & evanescence; the eternal, cyclical absolutes of birth & death; motherhood & childhood; and ancient immutable connections. With resonating ripples of intuition and instinct Sophia illuminates the presence of the ordinary, creating moments of sublime present. 'Born among the wild cliffs and tempestuous seas of west Cornwall, I grew with the intimate details in the twisting lanes and the intense changing light throughout the turbulent seasons. I formed a primordial connection with a deep instinctual sense of being part of the natural narrative, and wherever in the world I may be, this connectivity underpins my practice. Like the wind sculpted hawthorns and sensual coves of weather worn granite, I have been shaped by the powerful energy entwined in this ancient raw environment.’ ‘We are the stories of the journeys that came before. I weave into my work the tales of transitory circumstance; of struggle and survival; of forms and textures holding records of evolutionary millennia. I paint, I draw: with marks, mixtures, photography, words; the raw earth; the restless oceans; the whispered breeze. I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within, giving subtleties of existence a pause for contemplation. There is beauty in such poignant breaths. All moments are significant, every pebble of now forms the vast mountain of yesterday, and the great realm of tomorrow's possibilities'. Sophia has a 1st class honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts and World History, and a Masters Degree in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work is held in prestigious international private collections, and exhibitions of her interactive, immersive installation, photography and mixed media works include 'Tabula Rasa', London; 'Superlative', Plymouth; 'Transition', Newlyn; The Eden Project, Cornwall; The European Parliament, Brussels; Kew Gardens, London; and 'The Cameraless Film Festival', Chicago. _________________________________ Modern . Landscape . Contemporary . landscape . Stone . Cornwall . Sky . Yellow . Blue . Green . Brown . Rural...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'Pollen and Swallows' Original Artwork ________________________ Capturing the essence of the thick heat of a June afternoon, when the ...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'Prye' Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ Plein air contemporary watercolour painting from the series 'Stone and Air'. A wo...

'Paradise, Remembered' Original Artwork. Unframed ___________________ Late August sun breaks joyously through the low morning cloud, an easterly breeze rustling through the strelitzi...

'Hierba Costera Nochebuena' Original Artwork (Unframed) Low winter sun dancing on shingles and salt laden crisp coastal grasses; the tidal dance of the Mediterranean. A drawing scr...

'To The Slow Graceful Dance' Original Artwork A breeze in the theatre, a dance begins, costumes rising to the rhythm of the birdsong choir. The pai...

'That Was Just A Dream Some Of Us Had' Original Artwork From a body of work titled 'Elemental', in which Sophia employs her unique method of working using the four elements of eart...

'Like The Wild Geese You Flew' Original Artwork From a body of work titled 'Elemental', in which Sophia employs her unique method of working using the four elements of earth, air, ...

''Except The Shadows' is a mixed media painting on board, with deep blue tones of cyanotype solution used as a painting medium, together with vibrant, richly layered colours of acryl...