Forensic Psychology MSc student with a fondness for ghost stories, those of M. R. James in particular. Sarah has been writing for Daily Art since 2016, firstly for the app and later the magazine, and all her cats are named after characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Let’s Ride a Tiger! Escape into the Tropics with Henri Rousseau
Let’s ride a tiger! Definitely not! We should never try to ride a tiger, and Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible (especially...
Sarah Mills 19 January 2023
Paintings in The Accountant Movie
The Accountant is a 2016 action thriller starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick and J. K. Simmons, and was directed by Gavin O’Connor. It centers on...
Sarah Mills 30 December 2022
From Toys to Means of Transport: Balloons in Art
When we think of flying objects in art we might not put balloons at the top of our list, and yet they appear everywhere. As the words from Jethro...
Sarah Mills 5 December 2022
Meet Beautiful Cats by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, a British engraver, illustrator, and painter is perhaps best known for his paintings of birds. He painted many other...
Sarah Mills 27 November 2022
James Ensor’s Fighting Skeletons
Do you know the late Victorian and avant-garde painter James Ensor? Often likened to Edvard Munch is his ability to convey the miseries of human...
Sarah Mills 3 November 2022
All Souls & Halloween: Death in Art
All Souls & Halloween: Death in Art seems like a fitting title for an article at the beginning of November! The feast day of All Souls and the...
Sarah Mills 2 November 2022
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard...
Sarah Mills 21 October 2022
Breast Cancer Awareness: The Best Boobs in Art History
Big ones, small ones, round ones, flat ones, pointy ones, pendulous ones, young ones or old ones, we love them all! Boobs are important and have been...
Sarah Mills 19 October 2022
What I Found in the Museum of Bad Art
MOBA, or the Museum of Bad Art, is replete with almost anything that could be wished for in terms of the good, the bad, the very bad, the hilarious,...
Sarah Mills 26 September 2022
Charles Keeping: An Extraordinary English Illustrator
Today I would like to talk about Charles Keeping, an illustrator whom I discovered in my childhood. You may already be familiar with his work,...
Sarah Mills 21 August 2022
