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.
Music and Art: Tanto Bravura!
Music and art have long been closely tied together, each taking inspiration from the other (for better or for worse). Some remarkable music has been...
Sarah Mills 30 April 2022
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...
Sarah Mills 25 April 2022
Celestial Bodies in Art – Comets, Planets and Stars
When we think about flying objects we usually imagine birds, planes, kites, balloons, or even UFOs! It’s easy to forget that at one point the...
Sarah Mills 12 April 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 11 March 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 8 February 2022
Wind and Fun: Kites in Art
So far we’ve had balloons and celestial bodies as part of this series. Now we move to kites as our flying objects in art, but where do we...
Sarah Mills 8 February 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 4 February 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 24 January 2022
All Souls & Halloween: Death in Art
All Souls & Halloween: Death in art seems like a fitting title for an article at the end of October! The feast day of All Souls and the festival...
Sarah Mills 2 November 2021
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor Rose
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 7 May 2021
