Self-Portrait: Little Red

Oil on Canvas

2015

16"x18"

About the Artist...

Victoria Hill is a full-time Graphic Design professional with a passion for creating, both at work and at home. A 2016 graduate of Freed-Hardeman University, she is maintaining her professional career while pursuing creative and artistic projects in her spare time, including portrait commissions, recipe experimentation, and DIY home renovations. She and her husband live in a 1930’s farmhouse in rural Tennessee, managing the chaos of life with their many furry companions.

If you are interested in commissioning a custom piece, please feel free to contact Victoria via email at victoriaroseart1@gmail.com or through private message on social media: @ArtbyVictoriaRose

Artist Statement

Art in a beautiful avenue through which thoughts, feelings, and vision are passed to others in a truly unique way. The use of line and color to create a piece of visual art has the incredible ability to blur the lines of cultural divisions, to bypass language barriers completely. Though the audience may in a different region or culture or even continent, the artist’s passion and drive can be sensed in a well-crafted piece of art.

I have been drawn towards artistic pursuits from a young age, though for many years, I believed I would endeavor towards a career in writing or literature. I suppose I became a story-teller after all; my tales are spun through paint and canvas, charcoal and paper. Fantasy and Folklore have been the bread and butter for my creativity. Nothing quite beats the feeling of a well-loved book on a rainy day, curled up on the couch with a warm cut of tea and a sleeping cat. It is my favorite way to recharge artistic energy, to delve into another world and go on an adventure, for even upon a well-worn path, a hidden gem may appear. Those nuggets of inspiration fuel my creativity.

A beautiful aspect of human nature is the need for stories, to share experience and dreams with another soul. Stories are what connect cultures across the globe, linking people through shared experience and familiar themes. For the vast majority of human history, the past was remembered through songs and oral tales, paintings on walls and carvings on stone. I believe every person has a piece of the story to tell. My desire is to add my own tales to the great experience we call life. Maybe, with a little splash of color and a whole lot of ink, I can do just that.