The Artist

Hilary Small is an artist of emotional precision and quiet power. Her work traces the invisible threads between grief and grace, memory and matter, wildness and tenderness. Working primarily in graphite, colored pencil, and paint, she creates highly detailed, symbolic pieces that act as vessels—for healing, for remembering, and for returning home to the self.

Her creative path is not rooted in performance, but in reclamation. A return to something ancient and essential. Each piece is born from deep listening—to the body, to the spirit, and to what longs to be witnessed.

Hilary’s work is a conversation between what can be said and what can only be felt. Her process is slow, reverent, and intuitive—guided by emotion rather than outcome. Animal figures often lead the way: not as decoration, but as messengers of memory, transformation, and inner knowing. A lion drinking. A dolphin rising. A shark in stillness. Each image arrives with its own rhythm, its own medicine.

For Hilary, drawing is a ritual—a way of attuning to what lives beneath the surface. Her pieces offer an invitation to soften, to feel, and to witness what words alone cannot hold.

Hilary’s art is deeply relational and energetically attuned. It emerges from a place of emotional honesty, somatic awareness, and elemental reverence. Often carrying the essence of water, her work moves fluidly between intuition and structure, shadow and light.

Whether layering graphite or blending pigment, Hilary draws not only what is seen, but what is sensed. In this way, her artwork becomes a refuge—for both artist and viewer. A place where truth, beauty, and presence are allowed to co-exist.