Hilarie Couture

Hilarie is inspired by light, and color. Her passion brings an energy especially to the painting of people. She is constantly stretching and creating new work that not only incorporates painting with other mixed elements to display new textures but that is also more of an exploration of the materials and the process. Her work combines meanings, contrasts, subject matter, thick and thin paint, hard and soft edges, paint with pastel, gold leaf and some other unconventional materials.

CONTACT

215 W. Creighton Ave
Fort Wayne, IN 46807
Cell: 360-836-2307
hilariecouture@gmail.com
www.hcouturearts.com

MEDIA

• Mixed Media
• Oils
• Pastels

GALLERIES

• Castle Gallery

BIOGRAPHY

Hilarie Couture has always been an artist but only recently, has 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. Hilarie is represented by Attic Gallery, Camas, Washington, and her new gallery Castle Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she currently lives. 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 book to document the project and more information about this is on her website, www.hcouturearts.com

Hilarie has been a guest judge for different art group competitions, such as The Gateway International Show online. Another recent achievement was being published in a prestigious French art magazine “Pratique Des Art “ Issue #53 with a six-page article about her portraiture work. She has won numerous awards for her paintings and was a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society, also member of the International Pastel Society and Pastel Society of America. She is a new member of the Northern Indiana Pastel Society and the Fort Wayne Artist Guild. Hilarie Couture is also an ambassador for Chartpak.

Hilarie believes in giving back and sharing what she has learned to help other artists. She teaches workshops in her studio and is a popular instructor for various art guilds, retirement facilities, community colleges, etc., teaching specialized workshops. She believes that art education is important especially at an early age and has taught art history and practical application of art principles to homeschool children on a weekly basis .

Besides painting her romantic narratives, Hilarie offers portrait and other commissions at her studio/gallery now in Fort Wayne, Indiana or on location. She is also offers wedding portrait painting and attends the venues to paint live as an option for a unique wedding keepsake.