Join us for the WSA Annual Library Show awards reception and artist demo with Hillary Osborn on Saturday, November 23, 2024, 1:30-3:30pm at the Wellesley Free Library in the Wakelin Room. The talk and demo, titled Changing Your Scale: Re-Vision in Landscape Painting will give an idea of how one can change a smaller oil study into a larger format. What are the considerations at play? Audience questions will be welcome.

 

Awards will be announced at 1:30pm immediately followed by Hillary’s talk/demo. Join us for light refreshments beginning at 1:15pm and meet local artists. This program is in partnership with the Wellesley Free Library and is FREE and Open to the Public. The WSA will be collecting non perishable food items for the Wellesley Food Pantry.

 

In addition to actively painting outdoors and accepting commissions, Hillary Osborn teaches and lectures on art. She holds a master’s degree in fine arts from UNCG in North Carolina and attended the New York Studio School, studying under Graham Nickson and John Dubrow. Influenced by Fairfield Porter and Richard Diebenkorn she is primarily a plein air landscape and still life painter. She is an artist member of the Copley Society in Boston.

Childhood summer vacations were spent either on Cape Cod where her family history is traced back to the whaling trade on Martha’s Vineyard or up in Muskoka Canada visiting family and her great Uncle Lowrie Warrener’s studio and cottage. Warrener was a well- known Canadian abstract modernist painter (1900-1983).

After ten years of painting in Provincetown and exhibiting her work in New York City, Hillary Osborn and her husband Doug Rugh, also an oil painter, moved to studio/gallery space in 2008 at the historic Queen’s Buyway building on Palmer Avenue in Falmouth Massachusetts.