Catherine Hiller

My work concentrates on powerful, emotional moments in time – human snapshots. Through very energetic and sensual strokes, I express my love of paint and colour, celebrating people and emotions.

Joy, pain, passion, happiness, reflection, intensity, restlessness - I celebrate it all with a fury of colours that fuse, clash, appear and disappear, in a dance that I would relate to the volatility of our emotions, which I endlessly explore. I find the infinite possibilities of colour combination as fascinating as the palette of emotions human beings can display and I strive to convey both in my work.
My works are raw and visceral, the product of instinct rather than intellect. I am very sensitive to my surroundings – colours, sounds, people and most of all music; every cue, whether visual, aural or emotional, has a colour to me and I try translating it all onto canvas without the distraction of a thought process.
I also particularly enjoy the process, the physicality of painting and hopefully it transpires in the end result.

French born, I studied art in Paris before embarking on a successful career in advertising in the UK.
After 11 years in the UK, I moved to Australia in 2004 and have been living in Melbourne since. I have ...