Rustic, warm, and light-hearted, Lisa Hilliker’s nature-inspired art draws on her upbringing in rural Vermont and her powers of observation. Influenced by Warren Kimble, who is considered “America’s Best Known Living Folk Artist,” she shares his affinity for painting on barn board that adds to the weather-worn quality of her work, as does a final antiquing process. She also uses wood or stone as canvases. Hilliker’s early teachers where her artistic mother and grandmother, and she enjoys painting with her favorite muse, her cat at her side.

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