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About Hillary

Hillary’s life-long love of painting began at the age of eight when she took classes with artist James Baker in Greenwich Connecticut. By age twelve, she was attending classes at The Art Students League in New York City. Later she studied with the painter Edna Tacon, a protégée of Wassily Kandinsky.

After attending Knox College in Illinois and Byam Shaw College of Art in London England, Hillary worked in the commercial photography field through the Carl Duisberg Institute in Germany. She continued in commercial photography for several years, both in Munich Germany and New York City. Then switching careers, Hillary worked freelance in the New York City corporate world, and ran the Van Vorst Art Gallery with her husband in Jersey City, New Jersey. Finally, she returned full-time to her first love: painting.

Hillary is a member of the Olympia Art League (Washington), the Art Students League (New York City), the Laredo Center for the Arts (Texas), and the Art Center of Corpus Christi (Texas). Her work is represented by the Women And Their Work gallery (Austin, Texas).

Hillary's paintings are in private collections in the United States, France, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. Her paintings are at the New York University Medical Center, and in the collection of President and Mrs. George Bush.

Hillary recently moved to Olympia, Washington from Texas. She has also lived in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, London, and Germany.