NCAA names Bailey Hill as November Artist of the Month
From Special Reports
The Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA) selected Bailey Hill as its featured “Artist of the Month” for November. Ms. Hill’s art will be featured in the entry way of City Hall until December.
Hill has always been an artist and studied drawing, painting, and photography. After college she moved to the Pacific Northwest where she spent most of her life exploring, especially Yellowstone National Park, a favorite source of inspiration. She now lives in the countryside of West Central Georgia.
Bailey’s love of the great outdoors began in the Appalachian Mountains of North Central West Virginia where she grew up learning the importance of nurturing a connection with nature. Her inspiration springs from her curiosity and fascination with the natural world and the endless sense of awe and wonderment it instills. She is intrigued by the power and beauty of nature’s grandeur, intricate details, colors, shapes, and textures that inform her artwork.
She is a representational artist with a twist – she combines realism with abstraction to capture the essence of her subjects. She works primarily with acrylic paint, the world’s most versatile, innovative medium. Working with acrylic keeps Bailey’s artwork fresh, exciting, and meets the challenges she creates when expressing her vision. The versatility of acrylic enables her to mix mediums – ink, pencil, colored pencil, texture pastes, photography, and thin sheets of Japanese paper.
She mimics nature by building multiple layers of media like minerals deposited by a hot spring, and imitates weathering and erosion by rubbing areas with sandpaper. The process creates a history within the work and adds to the illusion of visual depth. She plays with color and lighting to convey a mood, a feeling of awe, and impart a hypnotic effect for the viewer. Although her subjects are specific, it’s important that the artwork is open to interpretation, allowing you, the viewer, to find your own meaning and also to make
you wonder, “How did she do that?”
Ms. Hill is an award-winning, nationally-exhibited artist, having participated in many solo and group shows. Most notably, she was juried into the very prestigious “America’s Parks Exhibition” where both of her submissions were accepted into the Top 100. This special exhibition toured several museums and galleries around the United States. At the Newnan-Coweta Art Association’s 16th Annual Juried Art Show, Bailey won the award for ‘Best of Mixed Media’. She also was noted for Honorable Mention in painting at the 17th annual show.
Bailey is a member of NCAA. NCAA’s general meetings are held the third Monday of each month (from August through May) at the Harriet Alexander Art Center on Hospital Road at 6:30 p.m. An art demonstration is presented each month. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
