Hilarie Couture

Hilarie Couture has been drawing since the age of two, but after a hiatus of 43 years, has only recently been able to concentrate on her art full time. All of her life experiences have translated to her canvases as she is self- taught but attends workshops from many artists she admires. Within the past year, she founded the Premiere Pastel Society of Indiana based in Fort Wayne, a 501 c-3 non profit pastel painters association created to educate the members and the public about soft pastel as a fine art medium.

Hilarie is represented by MastersMentors and Modern Fine Art and Gallery 02 on Broadway , in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Attic Gallery, Camas, Washington. She has had solo shows, has participated in various local and national group shows and in 2016, had curated her own travelling show in Vancouver Washington called” Founding Mothers Portraits of Progress”, painting 55 portraits of women in her community who made contributions in an effort to honor them. This show exhibited throughout the city for almost two years at numerous venues as a community outreach and at the Historic Museum and the Fort Vancouver Gallery as a tribute to these remarkable women during Women’s History month. Later, Hilarie wrote a b...