I've got in-progress images up at my studio blog at http://kellie-hill.blogspot.com , if you're curious. I love doing these pieces, how much detail and layering goes into them and the final, fascinating end result.

Inspired by Vermeer's work and the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring.

This one just feels wonderful to me- really unified and serene, whether or not it fits neatly into my existing body of work. collection of Amna Warner featured on my art blog at http://kelliehill.blogspot.com

This one was by special request- one like my other semi-abstracts, but red. It's such a tricky color, so intense, and if you go pink then it's such a different effect you have to be really careful, unlike most other colors- at any rate, I really am e...

This began as a painting of a funeral, and moved into something more abstract- the cruciform symbol, the butterflies and their transience, the repeating geometric forms. I enjoyed being able to experiment with collage and uncontrolled paint flow on t...

I absolutely love Monet- and I learn so much by doing studies of great works of art, I just had to do one of his Venetian pieces the other week.

I mentioned this piece briefly in my blog- my cat had run away, and I was thinking my wrrying about him affected the piece, especially the background. I think it came out well, that the emotion gave the series of flowers a more graceful flow, and the...

I thought of this as more of a study of a bouquet of calla lilies than a still life- really looking at their forms, the way they fall- such a graceful flower.

This is a piece abou the feeling of looking down into a natural body of water- that swirling, downward sense, as if you're being pulled into some wonderful mystery.

The dark, indistinct silhouette of the tree stands out really well against the golden background- one of my favorite colors, quinacridone gold- and the rectangular shape is actually the moon, I was trying to create a silvery sheen on it.

This was an experiment with high contrast- the gondola and pier are so dark and solid, I really wanted everything else to come out pale and shimmery, trying to really capture that quality of light.

I wanted this to be a slightly abstracted scene, with a vibrantly colored young tree and that halo that sometimes comes around them in bright sunlight.

Outlining the flowers was an experiment, and I think I like how it came out in this one- it ends up looking like they're floating in all the light, in a way. However, I'm not sure I shouldn't backtrack and add some mroe greenery.

The whole Tree of Life concept is one that frequently recurs in my dreams and my work- the Tree of Life, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Yggdrasil, what have you. For me it symbolizes strength and protection, but with a questing, searching el...

The red was a pleasent surprise in this one- what I originally intended to do was show a bouquet of soft, cottage-garden roses in a vibrant, glowing yellow, caught in a tallish vase.