2026 · 46 works
Gallery
This piece is about looking through; seeing what is distorted, transformed, flipped, and reflected through water, as if looking at the landscape from inside a home.
Tangledown
I create collage elements by implementing painting, printmaking and surface-altering methods on paper. These techniques result in textural effects and moods that range from aged and distressed to vibrant and energetic. Through layering the imagery and combining the collage components, I explore how color, form, and movement interact compositionally.
Deliberate Wanderings, #17
I create collage elements by implementing painting, printmaking and surface-altering methods on paper. These techniques result in textural effects and moods that range from aged and distressed to vibrant and energetic. Through layering the imagery and combining the collage components, I explore how color, form, and movement interact compositionally.
Daydream, #12
Three fish, trapped in an eddy, crusted with coral-white lace and tarnished sediment. I wanted the cracked, bubbled textures to feel like tide pools and shipwreck remains — life surviving quietly under weathered surfaces. Subject and relic both, worn down by the same slow erosion.
Undertow Archive
For this piece, the gentle blending and soft colors of watercolor pencils allowed me to create a dreamy woodland scene that reflects my appreciation of nature as a place of beauty, mystery and peace.
A Walk in the Woods
This painting captures a moment in time where beautiful lush undergrowth in a forest is facing an approaching wild fire. Reflects this artists concern for the devastation of precious vegetation, tress, creatures from increasing wildfires related to climate change. Also the great consequences for human health and the environment.
WILDFIRE
The Ghat is the first painting in a three-part series exploring Varanasi, a city I have never visited yet one that has lived vividly in my imagination for most of my life. I returned to oils after nearly two decades away, and it was Varanasi that called first. Not as a subject I chose deliberately, but as something that was simply waiting. This painting holds the widest frame of the series. The Ganges at dawn: abstract, serene, expansive. Humanity is barely a whisper on the water and the morning mist. There is breath here, and stillness. That stolen hour when the river still belongs to the birds, to murmured ablutions, to prayers rising before the ghats fill and the day arrives with its beautiful, relentless chaos. Man is incidental for now. Serenity is the subject. I worked on this piece for close to a year, returning to it only at the close of each workday. Coming back to oils after two decades was a slow reacquainting: remembering what I had always loved about the medium, its weight, the way it moves and holds, the way it rewards patience over urgency. My cubist-inspired visual language, with its geometric overlays and angular structures, finds an unusual quiet here. The geometry doesn't impose itself on the scene so much as hold space for it, tracing the invisible structure beneath stillness itself. The Ghat was the beginning of a conversation. Between who I was and who I was becoming. Between a city I carry inside me and the canvas that was finally ready to hold it.
The Ghat
Fragments of paper, fabric, and memory are stapled into a quiet narrative of time and touch. At this moment, layers reveal histories both personal and anonymous, balancing fragility and structure. The work invites slow looking, where texture, repair, and absence become language, holding traces of lives and those forgotten.
Fragments No.13
I’m interested in how landscapes hold traces of everything that’s passed through them, the way memory does. I painted a landscape resembling ash and bone, layered with memory and torn textures. Asemic writing, a lone sentinel, and a red-eyed sun sit off in the distance.
Fault Lines
Using a vintage placemat as the substrate I layered paper, faded script, and botanical fragments into an archive of memory, with a lotus blossom at the center, a symbol of renewal emerging from murky depths, caught between decay and transcendence.
Herbarium, 1915
My paintings explore the use of mixed media and oil paint to capture the fleeting nature of time and how the changes of light alter the emotion one may feel when effected by that light. I've created textured spaces that invite viewers to pause and reflect.
See You Tonight
Where is the present found? In the landscape, the viewer, or the act of seeing? A rusted iron ring becomes a portal rather than a boundary. A small bronze abstract figure invites us to discover how each moment opens into another.
Portal
This painting is based on photos and memories from a hike in the Marin Headlands. There are lots of these abandoned WWII-era military structures that hiding along the California coast. Visiting this one with my friends was one really nice day during a difficult time for me.
Battery Townsley
I thought I wanted to paint the view from the top of the birdwatching tower at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, but on the way up the stairs, I was so caught by the way the beams of the tower divided the landscape that I had to paint that instead.
Great Meadows
A theme I enjoy is form manifesting / differentiating from the field. Calligraphic mark figures prominently in my work and for me has meaning as word/sound/vibration. My work is inspired by joy, light, and an exploration of consciousness.
Manifestation
Built with layers of collage and paint, this piece grew one step at a time. Bright fish appear as unexpected visitors, bringing color, joy, and a sense of wonder. It reminds us that ordinary moments can become something special.
The Day The Fish Arrived
I aim to convey a sense of place, and the beauty and calm the natural world engenders. The fluidity of water provides a juxtaposition to the tangle of natural elements at water’s edge. To create this space out of marks and make sense of the chaos is my meditation.
Alewife Reservation #4
Even as the landscape changes, memory is held within natural cycles; there is a lot of work and life happening beneath the surface. As ice melts, it marks time and, through its changes, is reflective of how the world is evolving and suffering.
Iceflown
This is abstracted view of the fields encountered when flying in to the UK. It's the "moment" when I realize I'm entering Europe. This patchwork of greens always reminds me of where I came from.
In Flight
When visiting a botanical garden in Cuba, I photographed this fabulous monstera plant knowing that I would render it in dye on silk. I enjoyed creating the various textures by letting water and alcohol play with the dye.
Cuba III
Eerie light in an old hotel.
Lamp
I am endlessly inspired by the shapes my kitchen table and the light from my windows make. It takes me back to when I was in high school and a teacher stacked up chairs and told us to find the negative space.
Table
I aim to convey a sense of place, and the beauty and calm the natural world engenders. The fluidity of water provides a juxtaposition to the tangle of natural elements at water’s edge. To create this space out of marks and make sense of the chaos is my meditation.
Fish Pond #3
Unfold reveals an inner world shaped by memory. Blurred moments intentionally mimic the ambiguity of remembrance, while textures of brushstrokes and palette knife marks reflect painting's unique ability to make memories and dreams tangible. Together, this piece unfolds the person we become through what we remember and imagine.
Unfold
The painting is of a typical motel room in Truro. Motel rooms hold mysteries: is it an escape, a place to reunite, a symbol of renewal?
The Motel Room
This piece is inspired by Leonard Cohen's poem/song. I build a structural unity that is intended as present while seeming to be simultaneously evolving. Edges of the underlying images are an integral part of the work, evoking the unity of parts coming together, and dissolving or evolving forms.
How the Light Gets In
This piece is about hope. I build a structural unity that is intended as present while seeming to be simultaneously evolving. Edges of the underlying images are an integral part of the work, evoking the unity of parts coming together, and dissolving or evolving forms.
Light Emerging Through Shadow
The new England coast offers continued inspiration. This painting was created using plein air studies in oil and gouache along with photos when I returned to work in the studio.
Breaking Surf
“Loch Leaving” was inspired by a recent trip to Scotland. It was unusual weather for Scotland, very dry and sunny with waterfalls reduced to trickles. The gear I packed for their notorious weather never left my suitcase, and I pondered the impact of climate change on Scotland’s exquisite landscape.
Loch Leaving
With the figure in water, there is much to explore; the color of light, reflection, and distortion as well as a gesture that relates to a sense of place and moment. My pool paintings also enable me to explore a subject that gives me peace in these turbulent times.
A Moment's Gesture
With the figure in water, there is much to explore; the color of light, reflection, and distortion as well as a gesture that relates to a sense of place and moment. My pool paintings also enable me to explore a subject that gives me peace in these turbulent times.
Meditating
A group of swimmers, all ages, cling to, climb up on or stand on a raft in Long Island Sound. A visual metaphor for that moment but also being in a small group clustered in a limited but lovely safe spot.
Raft
I enjoy painting and experimenting with color. My preferred subjects are related to nature and the outdoors. Painting has taught me to see things in a different way, observing every detail more carefully and more consciously, distinguishing colors and shapes, and ultimately appreciating more deeply what I see.
Cape Cod Sunset
The sea meets the craggy shore at Bass Rocks in Gloucester. In the distance a few venerable old homes dot the coast. An artist pulls the blue and white in from the sea.
On Bass Rocks
My work explores the intersections of color theory and the natural world by using gouache to examine how shifting hues alter human emotion and perception. Using gouache I isolate specific color relationships, mirroring both the delicate balances found in the environment and my own internal emotional state.
Hemlock Haven
Using only horizontal bands of varying widths and textures, Hilary challenges herself to create a sense of space and distance while pushing her subject to the edge of abstraction. She has painted over a hundred seascapes in varying sizes and colors—they provide a consistent design framework with endless possibilities.
Ebb Tide
Using only horizontal bands of varying widths and textures, Hilary challenges herself to create a sense of space and distance while pushing her subject to the edge of abstraction. She has painted over a hundred seascapes in varying sizes and colors—they provide a consistent design framework with endless possibilities.
Onset
A theme I enjoy is form manifesting/differentiating from the field. Calligraphic mark figures prominently in my work and for me has meaning as word/sound vibration. My work is inspired by joy, light, and an exploration of consciousness.
Harmony
Immigrants integrate their past with the now.
Resettled
A trip to Sedona yielded this 3 medium work. The photograph is of formations in Sedona. The scene is a fictional studio overlooking the formations.
Sedona Studio
Inspired by Maynard Dixon I took a trip to the Southwest. Watercolor and a faux wood frame constructed out clay seemed like a good mash-up on mediums to me.
High Plains
The painting depicts a view of New York from my hotel room. All those houses, and the lives inside always fascinated me. Who works there? Who lives there? What are their lives like?
A Small Slice of the Big Apple
The Insurrection of the Capital, and all that followed deeply troubles me -and continues to in the wake of the actions enacted by the Trump administration. I truly fear for this country and our democracy. My studio has become my sanctuary: an escape from our imperiled country.
Sanctuary: Shelter From the Storm
A once productive factory now appreciated for its visual playground.
Gear Shaping Factory
A brick building façade punctuated by a variety of windows in different colors and styles, each revealing a unique character. The brick-red tones contrast with vibrant blues and soft pastels, creating interplay of structure and whimsy. Subtle textures and layered details invite closer inspection, offering a glimpse into urban life.
WATERHEAD MILL
I am fascinated by the mystic world of Sufism. I have a passion for mixing mysticism, Arabic poetry, yoga and the enchanting Sufi world of Rumi. My goal is to awaken my heart and inspire others to close the eye of the self and awaken the eye of the soul.
She Tribe 2026