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What you get:

• Framed and matted original 11 x 14 painting

• Digital version for ads, flyers, etc.

• Private site for reorder convenience

• Entry into Clarion County coloring book if done by May 1

• SVG file to use for T-shirts, water bottles, decals, mugs, etc.

• Matted prints for sale on consignment or wholesale

Here are some of the latest home portraits that I have completed:

Michelle’s Cafe Show September-October 2023

Michelle’s Cafe is the perfect small town coffee shop with a great atmosphere to enjoy fresh food and coffee. They have always generously hosted art shows for the Clarion County Arts Council.

Artist Statement

Hillary Durum (LeFay)

After a few years of tumult, I have experienced many changes in life and self.  Finding myself in my art and letting things flow while finding my grounding led to this show, “The Root of Flow”

Glass Art is my comfort zone. I love working with it cold for mosaics and windows, hot for fusing and weaving it into metal.  Stars have represented many things in my artistic life:  Creativity, commerce, color freedom, whimsy.  After many craft shows I became known as the “Star Lady”  I loved knowing that a little piece of my creative soul was in homes around the area.

Because of my studio space changing, it was harder to work with it this year, which started forcing me out of my comfort zone, which is where I love to have to be for creativity.

In August of 2022 I traveled to Peru and fell in love with the country. The food, people, art, and natural beauty lit a new fire in me and I began to see my photography as a way to share some of the experience.  With a wonderful friend, Jeseca, we started a charity organization, PachaMamas.org.  With this we are raising U.S. funds to build schools in Peru and support the artisans around the country.

I have always dabbled in watercolor painting, it started as a way to illustrate glass in designs for myself and commissions.  When I was recovering from a hip surgery at the end of 2018, I spent a lot of time practicing and learning.  Then it was put away while in pursuit of other things.  During the shutdown I was able to spend time painting again. But, it was never something I gave myself the permission to focus on.

This year is when I started working with it again and found how much it became a way for me to do inner exploration in a relaxed, fun way.  I allowed myself to flow through ideas, make mistakes, and just play with color.  The leap to showing anyone my creations in public was about courage.  To share something I have not been doing my whole life, but something that has been floating and flowing around my Hillary brain was a leap. 

Thanks to an amazing grant from the PPA Partners in the arts, I had the opportunity to share my love of the art of Architecture. 

I have a B.S. from University of Virginia in Architecture.  The decision not to pursue architecture as a career never made me stop wanting to share it.  I have spent a lot of my time in Clarion learning the history and taking the art history students of Mr. Ray Jones at Clarion Area High School on architecture field trips, around Clarion, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. 

Through the grant, my son Haven LeFay and I planned an afternoon of sketchbook building, walk around town with quick sketches, and a watercolor tutorial of the park’s gazebo.  This was a major leap in courage for me.  Sharing my paintings and then doing my first teaching of it was new and exciting after years of drafting boards and a simple palette.

Now, I am excited to expand my architecture portfolio and work my way around the town painting not only buildings, but the details and aging that makes them fascinating speakers of the past.

Thank you to everyone who has been there for me this year.  From being my loving safe place to helping me with all the insanity of carting art supplies everywhere and hanging this show, I don’t know what I would do without Rob Reed.  Rylee and Rhainey Reed have done so much to help with everything, they are wonderful girls and I am so lucky to have them in my life.  Haven has been behind the scenes in everything. He is my favorite person to brainstorm and problem solve with.  So much of this show is also a part of him, from ideas, to writing, to framing.