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'Jasmine Mills' Vegetative work explores an uninhibited relationship to landscape. The figures in her paintings fold themselves into the land: laying amongst long grasses, creeping into clefts of rock, reclining on standing stones. Their bodies fade and intermingle with vegetation and soil, Jasmine blending the borders of land and body with languid brush marks. Her process begins with photography. She takes her models into the landscape, cloaking them in garments she has made with moss and grasses, and encouraging them to explore the land. Jasmine is looking for a childlike relationship to the environment, where her models respond tactilely and freely. Her figures are always female, tapping into associations between the female body and rhythms of the natural world. She uses a specific palette of burnt sienna, Prussian blue, Paynes grey and a toxic green to create an atmosphere of dreamy enclosure. Her paintings convey a feeling of safe submersion, yet her figures are alone and isolated, lying somewhere in the hinterland between peace and melancholy.'
​- Kate Reeve-Edwards @culturalcapitalarts