Bio and C.V.

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Hillie has been working with colours from a young age.

In her early years, she started  painting landscapes in oils. Fabric design was also a passion  and the fascination with hand made fabrics made her switch from fine art into fibre art in the late 70's.

She dyed her wool, cottons and silks to be woven into yards of fabric.

In 1993 she moved to a farm in Niagara, where she raised a flock of 125 long wool sheep. She had a retail outlet on the farm, where she sold products made from the wool.

During a two year illness from 2002-04 she went back to her passion of painting in oils.

In 2004 she dissolved the farm and moved her paintings and fibre creations to Dundas, Ontario and opened “Gallery Sixty Nine”.

 

Hillie is a very prolific painter and has produced well over 1000 primarily large oil paintings.

Her early abstracts reflect a vibrancy of colour and texture that is similar to her fabrics, her recent paintings are calmer, more reflective, iconic portraits and figures that tell a story.

 

 

C.V.

 

The art of creation, the passion that comes with it, is the freedom to open up and express your most inner feelings, the ability to reflect your emotional state on the canvas.

Everything in the universe is made up of energy, vibrating on a range of different frequencies. When an artist creates, his/her art will reflect the energy vibration of her consciousness and people that vibrate on the same frequency will be drawn and connect deeply with the work.

 

The need to paint comes from an inherent need to escape the physical world and sink into the plains of being, the spiritual world, where materialism does not exist.

It is similar to meditation. Artists whose entire existence consists of creating, have been accused of not living in the real world. The question remains, what is the real world? Is it our thoughts, our assumptions, our predictions, or are they just fabrications of the mind. The true world of existence is below the surface, in the moment of now, where no time and place exists, where there is no past and no future.

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"From the very first painting I did, I have been signing my work with the date of it's creation. When I look at my past work, it is like reading a diary of my emotional state of that time. I can follow with clear precision my spiritual path, I can recall the emotions of that time and how they evolved. They reflect deep dark periods, inner turmoil, loss and letting go."

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"My work reflects my awakening process, the way I understand it, the way I feel it and the way I translate these feelings into 2 dimensional images."

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Artist Statement

 

 

The strength of an art piece and the impression it leaves, reflects the ability of the artist to communicate his or her depth of awareness.

The ability to go beyond the personal or the ego and become one with the art during its creation, will shine through and flow past the skin encapsulated ego of the viewer. It will touch at a deep spiritual level. It is There, where that inner spark is one with the cosmos and eternity. Only those that have that depth of understanding and who don't cling to the surface structures and surround themselves with themselves, they will be touched deeply by art, that is created by the “trans-personal”.

Trans-personal art is the result of the artist fully opening up to the flow of creativity, that comes from Source, our Creator. They translate and manifest it in a way, to help others expand, grow, evolve, transcend and go beyond.

A true artist is one that needs to create above all else and in all aspects of living. That same artist is inherently drawn to create art, that relays a message or a healing.

The world is in a constant state of evolving world views. Trans-personal artists are trained to see beyond the obvious and are the first to truly see and then translate these new ways of seeing into new modes of being, new forms of perception and new heights or depths of feeling. Artists who claim to paint realism, might be seen as surpressed realists. They paint only the obvious.

There have always been trendsetters in the arts community. Those that broke the rules, because human consiousness evolves and art is an expression of human consciousness.

As humanity is slowly releasing its grip on science and the false importance of materialism, there is a softening of resistance by we humans, toward the subtle energies around us. Some people are starting to see the spiritual intention behind a piece of art.

I have observed the way people first “read” the paintings in the gallery and than you can see, that one particular piece creates energetic connection on a much deeper level then they realize. It might bring emotions to surface.

 

How can we use our creative gifts to heal this planet?

Are the poets, the visual artists and the musicians the creators of our future? Are they showing the way?

 

Peace

Hillie 

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Hillie

September 2017

 

“Deny the accident” J. Pollock

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