Taking Turns Painting

Denise Hillman, a California-based artist, is a studio painter working primarily in oil. I have always felt that being an artist was my destiny, and would sit for hours drawing as a child. After college, I had a long and successful career in marketing while raising my two sons. I’ve since developed a robust art practice that includes abstract, figurative and narrative subject matter often inspired by my travels. Some of my key inspirations are the Bay Area Figurative Painters like David Park & Richard Diebenkorn; and the New York Abstract Expressionists like Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Rothko. I regularly show in juried exhibitions throughout Northern California and Arizona where my work can be found in private collections. Artist Statement: For me, the act of creating is both a search for self and the desire to connect with others in an unspoken way. I strive to inject emotion into my work that sparks a response from the viewer while leaving much to the imagination…to state visually what can’t be articulated in words. When a person is standing before my work, I want it to evoke a memory; perhaps a place they’ve been, someone they’ve known or simply a particular feeling from a moment they’ve experienced.