Join us at our February First Thursday Celebration on February 5 at 5:30 pm to meet our featured artists and see their artwork for the first time.
They are Hilarie Couture, Painter; Susan Supola, Silk Painter and Tim Foertsch, Metal Artist. Scroll below to learn more about their artwork.
About Hilarie Couture, Painter
I am a direct painter who loves to work from life. I know it isn’t always possible to do that, but my work is the freshest when I do. My style is colorful,impressionistic and full of energy, not a photograph, but my own depiction and interpretation of the subject.
My work is full of emotion due to my own trials of living life and my God given ability to capture someone’s essence and spirit on the canvas. I love painting in oil and pastel as well as charcoal and watercolor.
My passion is painting people and If you sit for me live, don’t expect that you will have to be constantly still, as I enjoy the conversation that allows me to see within your soul and capture a certain twinkle in your eye or another personal expression that is only you. I hope my work moves you to choose to work with me and together design a special piece of art that can never be recreated.
I am intrigued by color and light and I am on a lifelong quest to masterfully connect my vision and impression of how in nature the subtleties of color and temperature are constantly changing those elements. My goal is to transfer what I see and feel on to my canvas through more understanding of how to make it look like light from my paint. I am also in love with the quality of paint and the bravura of the brushstroke and intentionally putting the marks down.
I hope that you are moved by my work. My joy is that it will speak to you in a way that you will want to remember and possibly want to take it home if not physically, always in your mind.
Visit Hilarie Couture website
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About Susan Supola, Silk Painter
I love stories. They connect me to other people, other ways of thinking or doing things, and other cultures. I want my art to tell stories about what I’ve seen, or done, or experienced. I am often drawn to painting landscapes or nature simply to tell the story of how I experience the beauty or power of our natural world. I also love to travel to other countries, taking my sketch box and camera. Many of my paintings tell the stories of other peoples and cultures different from mine.
I am inspired by the natural world. I grew up in a small town in the mountains and spent a lot of time outside hiking, swimming, rowing my dad’s fishing boat, skiing and sledding. Another inspiration is travel and hearing the stories of other countries and people. You will see subjects in my art from places I’ve visited or lived: Italy, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Artists who influenced me are Zoltan Zabo and Gustav Klimt. Zabo’s techniques with watercolor, which bring drama and excitement to nature, first got me hooked on painting. Although Klimt isn’t known for his landscapes, I admire his subtle use of gold/metallic in his art and often include metallic touches in my paintings.
Along with other forms of art, I paint with dyes on a piece of white silk stretched on a frame. Other than in books, I had not seen this type of painting until I went to The Czech Republic and Slovakia on a Fulbright-Hayes summer seminar in 2003. This is where I learned about new kinds of dyes and materials and using metallic paint on fabric.
My art is about connections between myself, other people, and nature. It is probably best said by Yann Martel in The Life of Pi : “Stories—individual stories, family stories, national stories—are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”
Window of the Violin Maker, Pisa Italy
Hill Tribe Women after the Weekly Market, Lake Inle, Myanmar 
Going to the Sun
Flowers of Thailand
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About Timothy Foertsch, Metal Artist
As an artist my focus is on reclamation of materials, I find it more challenging and rewarding to transform something from a former life into something new. My primary medium is metal, which is cut, ground, welded, polished, painted and sometimes rusty upon completion. Each piece is unique, and each piece is reborn though it already has a unique history.
I have been passionate about my craft for many years, and thanks to The Broadway Gallery I am able to share my work with a new audience.
To learn more about my work visit my website, haoleware.com
Totemfish
Made from old office filing cabinets, the 3D fish are accented by a tribal representation of a local icon
Haoleware Gate
Stylized Asian influenced gate.The frame is over six feet tall, which supports the self-closing gate
Fall Bell
Bells made from failed pressure tanks, sometimes I add to them, sometimes I take material away
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