Sarah Hillman
Artist Statement
Lansing-based multimedia artist Sarah Hillman was born in Cape Town, South Africa, raised in Windhoek, Namibia, and moved permanently to Michigan after graduating high school. Sarah drew her first portrait at age two (it was of Rumpelstiltskin and looked like a sad potato) and has been making art ever since. She has gotten much better at it since, and now very few of her portraits look like potatoes at all. Sarah works in a variety of mediums, including watercolor and acrylic painting, digital art, ceramic sculpture, and ‘rock art’ (which is the fine art of finding rocks on the beach and gluing them onto mat board!) She uses her art to celebrate the beauty of the natural world, teach her three children about life, and tell stories. She paints and creates clay sculptures for the sheer joy of it. Rock art, however, she makes so she can justify going to the beach A LOT during the summer.
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