Erin Kathleen
Erin Kathleen Hilleary (Airin Hail), has been painting in Seattle since 1995.
She has worked consistently with several galleries and non-profit organizations throughout this time, as well as collaborated on mural and fundraising projects.
She regards image-creation as a powerful tool that sets intention and contributes to compassion, centering and union.
Through her work, Erin establishes a partnership with her audience to collaboratively work towards healing.
She creates a world where this is taking place and then her audience devotes their attention to this as they gaze at her paintings.
She channels the first and universal language of symbols and icons through her work to communicate meaning and effect change in herself and in her world.
She draws inspiration from seemingly random images and themes apparent in chaos and they compose a message, a statement about reality that speaks to us at every moment; that is continually poignant.
She is fed by the symbolic leavings of a matriarchal Neolithic civilization that inhabited Bosnia and the surrounding Balkan Area and eventually spread out all over Europe .
Erin attempts to exemplify, in her paintings, the reverence that this ancient civilization had for every aspect of existence.
She wishes to bring light to the beauty that lies beneath an earth consumed by turmoil and pain.
Erin is seeking to become a clear and fluent conductor for the energy that she draws inspiration from and the materials that she works with, so that they may converse freely with each other and with their surrounding environment.
She paints because she is curious to see what she will make next and because she enjoys watching perception, emotion, experience and thought become tangible. She has learned much about life through exploration of the act of creation as a microcosm and she looks forward to watching as life further elucidates art and as art delves deeper into life.
Erin Kathleen Hilleary
Sat Nam,
Airin Hail
(Erin Hilleary)
www.erinala.artremains.com
Art Collection Slide show