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My painting "Raven" received a Jack Richeson Award at The Connecticut Pastel Society's member show on March 1, 2008.
The show will be open from March 1 thru March 21 at Gallery 53, Colony Street, Meriden, Ct.

128 paintings
By Ria Hills

 

I recently published a  book with some of the years paintings in it - 128 in all. It would make a great holiday gift.

To see a preview click on the image to the left.


University of Pittsburgh Press and author Kirk Nesset chose my painting "On the Road" for the book "Paradise Road".

You may preorder the book at Amazon.com

 

 

 

reference photo by Barbara Henry

 


"Ria Hills, our Artist of the Month for November 2006, is a pastel painter who celebrates the quiet loveliness of the ordinary. “Some of my paintings have been inspired by a dream, a song, or sometimes a single word,” she explains. “A few months ago I started painting a 5”-x-7” work every day. These paintings are mostly inspired by small, common objects.” These works—of a cup of coffee, a baseball, a broken egg, or a marble, for instance—all speak of Hills’ fascination with light."

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